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1819 Aug. 17
Fallacies

Under whatsoever name the divinity may be worshipped
the decay of piety will at all times furnish to the votary
an inexhaustible theme of lamentation. It wa such to the priests of Gaul:
it was such to their more fortunate rivals. It would
flow from them (this pious effusion) it would flow from them in seams: it would flow
from them out of season.

Even this may be seen flowing from Lord Grenville;
if with that noble and quondam Lord it can be said to have been at
any time out of season, the lamentation which has for
its subject the decay of that piety the worship of forms.

In the Times Newspaper of the 23d of February 1811, I
read and copied at the time these words. House of Lords
22 Feby.. Lord Grenville. "It was a general idea, and
"among the worst signs of the times, that there was a disposition
"to neglect all forms. The Constitution could not be preserved
"but by attention to forms. He was old fashioned enough to
"admire our forms. The transaction was against all forms,
"as the old mode would have been by Proclamation of
"the Lord Lieutenant in Council. Had the Privy Council
"been called, there had not been issued a paper co nomine
"against the Collectives. All communication had
"been withheld from the Regent, and no proof given of any
conciliatory endeavours of the Government."

At the time of this lamentation what was the real state
of the case? What was done was done in one a certain form: according to the noble
worshipper of form it ought rather to have been done in a
certain other. Had it been done in that other he might with
no less facility have taken the opposite side and still contended that the
form in which it was done was not the form in which it ought to have
been.⊞ ⊞ To this votary the noble voter of
form one main object
as is manifest, was
the preaching and inculcating
the worship of
forms: and in this one
regard it may be presumed he did not toil labour in vain. As to the measure by which his Lordships opposition in this form was called forth, it belongs not to the present purpose. The main object was

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Date_1	1819-08-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	297	Info in main headings field	fallacies
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