T'enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as a lawful prey. 20 Lands intersected by a narrow frith And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, 30 Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. Of all your empire; that, where Britain's pow'r Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations in a world, that seems To toll the deathbell of it's own decease, And by the voice of all it's elements 50 Reflections suggested by the conclusion of the former book.-Peace among the nations recommended, on the ground of their common fellowship in sorrow. -Prodigies enumerated.-Sicilian earthquakes.Man rendered obnoxious to these calamities by sin. -God the agent in them.-The philosophy that stops at secondary causes reproved.-Our own late miscarriages accounted for.-Satirical notice taken of our trips to Fontainbleau.-But the pulpit, not satire, the proper engine of reformation. The Reverend Advertiser of engraved Sermons.-Petitmaitre parson. The good preacher.-Pictures of a theatrical clerical coxcomb.-Story-tellers and jesters in the pulpit reproved.-Apostrophe to popular applause.-Retailers of ancient philosophy expostulated with.-Sum of the whole matter.-Effects of sacerdotal mismanagement on the laity.-Their folly and extravagance.-The mischiefs of profusion.Profusion itself, with all it's consequent evils, ascribed, as to it's principal cause, to the want of discipline in the universities. THE TAS K. BOOK II. THE TIME-PIECE. O FOR a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, Of wrong and outrage, with which Earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having pow'r 10 |