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dering his un- | happy | victions! | Such
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notions shock every | sentiment of honor. | 11
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These a- | bominable | principles,

more a- | bominable a- | vowal of | them,
the most decisive | indig- | nation.

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I call upon that | right | reverend, | most learned | Bench, |to| vindicate ligion of their | God to sup- | port the | justice of their country. |11|17|11| call upon the | Bishops to inter- | pose the un- | sullied | sanctity of their lawn, upon the | Judges to inter- | | | | pose the purity of their | ermine, to save us from | this pol- | lution. |11|11|7| call upon the | honor of your lordships, to | reverence the | dignity of your ancestors | and to main- | tain your | own. |

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ity of my
character.

call upon the | spirit and hu- | mancountry, to vindicate the | national | 11 in- voke the | Genius of

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the British consti- | tution. ||| From the
tapestry that a- | dorns | these | walls, the im- |
mortal | ancestor of this | noble | lord |
indig-nation at the dis- | grace of his

frowns with |

country. | 1117 In | vain did | he de- | fend the | liberty,|

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and es- | tablish the re- ligion of | Britain, | against the tyranny of | Rome, | if these | worse than Popish cruelties, and in- | quisi- | torial | practices, | are en- | dured among us. 1111 To send forth the | merciless | Indian, || thirsting for blood!a-gainst whom? your 1 protestant | brethren! ||to | lay country, to desolate their dwellings,

waste their

and ex

tirpate their race and | name, by the | aid and | in

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strumentality of these un- | governable | savages! |

eminence ed herself

Spain can | no | longer | boast | pre- | in bar- | barity. ||17| She | armwith | blood hounds to ex- tirpate

the wretched natives of | Mexico; Į

we, more |

en- | deared

ruthless, | loose those | brutal | warriors | against

our countrymen in A- | merica,

to us by every | tie

that can | sanctify hu- |

manity. I solemnly | call upon your | lordships, and upon | every | order of men in the | State to stamp upon | this | infamous pro- | cedure the in- | delible | stigma of the | public

ab- | horrence. |1|17| More par- | ticularly, | I call upon the venerable | prelates of our re- | ligion, to do a- | way this i- | niquity:

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to | purify the | country from this | deep and | deadly | sin. | 771

My Lords,

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I am | old | and | weak, | and at present un- | able to say | more; | 11 but my feelings and | indig- | nation were | too strong to have al- | lowed me to say | less. 971 ។ ។ ។ ។ | ។ I | could not have | slept ។ | this ។

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vent to my stedfast ab- | horrence

normous and pre- | posterous | principles.

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ON THE BEING OF A GOD.

Re-tire;

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the world

thy | thoughts | call | home : |

I-magi- nation's | airy | wing

Lock up thy senses;

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in thy | soul's | deep silence, |

let no | passion | stir; Wake all to reason: let her I

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Of nature's silence, || midnight, || thus in- quire,

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As I have done; | and shall in- | quire no | more. 1771771

In nature's channel | thus the questions | run.

"What am I? | and from whence? | 1919 I nothing | know,

But that I am; |17| and | since I am, con

clude

Something eternal: had there | e'er been |

nought,

Nought still had been | e- | ternal | there |

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But what e- | ternal? Why not | human | | | | race?

And Adam's | ancestors with- | out an | end? 1971991

That's hard to be con- | ceived; since | every |

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Of that long chained suc- | cession is so ។ | frail; ។ |

Can every part de- | pend, and not the

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Whence earth, and these | bright | orbs? |

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E-ternal | too?

Grant matter was e- |ternal; || still these orbs

Would want some | other | father; || much

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Is seen in all their | motions, all their

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Design | im- | plies in- | telligence | and |

art 177

That can't be | from them- | selves or man; that art |

Man scarce can | compre- | hend, could | man | be-stow? |

And nothing greater | yet al- | low'd | than

man. 17

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Who, motion, foreign to the | smallest | grain, | Shot through | vast

weight?

masses of e- | normous

Who | bid | brute | matter's | restive | lump

as-sume

Such various | forms, and gave it | wings

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Has | matter | innate | motion? | | then | each

atom,

Asserting its in- | disputable | right |

To dance, would | form an | universe of | dust ;|

Has | matter | none? || Then whence those | glorious forms |

And boundless | flights, from | shapeless | and re- | posed? | 711]

Has matter | more than | motion? | has it | thought, | Judgment and genius? || Is it | deeply | learned | In | mathematics? || Has it | framed | such

laws. I

Which but to guessa | Newton | made im- | mortal? |

If so, how each sage | atom | laughs at

me,

Who think a clod in- | ferior to a man!|
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If art to form; and counsel to con- duct;|
Re-sides not in | each

head reigns.91991

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Grant then in- | visible | e- | ternal | mind;

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That granted, all is | solved |11| But | grant

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A | Being | without | origin | or | end! |

Hail | human | liberty! | there is no | God!

Yet why?on | either | scheme | that sub-sists; 11

Sub-sist it must, in | God, or | hu

man race:

If in the last, how many | knots be- | side, | In- dissoluble | all? Why choose

it there,

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