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The<del> Act</del> Bill for<add>what is called</add> the better observance of this day may be <sic>stiled</sic> a provision of Indirect<lb/> Legislation for the encouragement of vice. | The<del> Act</del> Bill for<add>what is called</add> the better observance of this day may be <sic>stiled</sic> a provision of Indirect<lb/> Legislation for the encouragement of vice. | ||
<note><foreign>A la bonne heure,</foreign> when | |||
<note><foreign>A la bonne heure,</foreign> when anyone can make <del>the</del> <add>a</add> world in six days let him be made to rest the 7<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>.</note> | |||
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<p>Very different would <add>the case be</add> it be, if <add>with</add> the same facility <del>that</del> <add>with which</add> people may be driven<lb/> from the obnoxious pursuits, they could fixed to those on which it is wished<add>the design</add> to fix them.</p> | <p>Very different would <add>the case be</add> it be, if <add>with</add> the same facility <del>that</del> <add>with which</add> people may be driven<lb/> from the obnoxious pursuits, they could fixed to those on which it is wished<add>the design</add> to fix them.</p> | ||
<p>A mischief is never so dangerous nor so difficult to be shaken off, as when the ill<lb/>policy of the measure is < | <p>A mischief is never so dangerous nor so difficult to be shaken off, as when the ill<lb/>policy of the measure is <unclear><unclear>screened</unclear> <add>varnished over by</add><lb/>piety of the design. <del><gap/></del></p> | ||
<note>There is a wide difference between | <note>There is a wide difference between running a <gap/> against <gap/> prejudices, and officiously lending them assistance.</note> | ||
<p>The connection between <add>Industry & Virtue on the one hand</add>Idleness and Vice on the other, is so <del><gap/></del> close & necessary, as<lb/>nothing can dissolve—</p> | <p>The connection between <add>Industry & Virtue on the one hand</add>Idleness and Vice on the other, is so <del><gap/></del> close & necessary, as<lb/>nothing can dissolve—</p> | ||
<note> | <note> | ||
The mixed <gap/> of <gap | The mixed <gap/> of <gap/> & <gap/></note> | ||
Is there no Father of the Church who has strength of mind <add>discernment</add> to descry the < | Is there no Father of the Church who has strength of mind <add>discernment</add> to descry the <unclear>latent</unclear> <unclear>poison</unclear><lb/>at the bottom of this specious remedy?<lb/>The grand source of illusion in this as in so many other Articles is the inconsiderate<lb/> transference <add>transposing in <gap/></add> of their own ideas on the breasts of others — they <gap/><add>order in <gap/></add> & lay out the<lb/>pursuits of the illiterate vulgar, the principal objects of these regulations, as they would<lb/>their own — They do not consider <del>that</del> how impossible it is that those <gap/> <gap/><lb/>because an occupation, capable of filling up the time thus emptied of every other<lb/>to any but minds <gap/>by education, fraught with various kinds of preliminary<lb/>Ideas ,<add>acquirements</add> <gap/> <gap/> speculation accustomed to feed with relish on abstractions<lb/>(after they linger out their moments in a state of torpid listlessness, and languor<lb/> or they torn missed is to and lose their senses: or plunge into the pursuits of <gap/><lb/> & forbidden pleasure | ||
<note>It is not in the power of a<add><gap/>added text</add | <note>It is not in the power of a<add><gap/>added text</add> a <gap/> inalterable constitutions of things statute <add>can</add> to destroy the connection of causes & effects</note> | ||
<note>These are the sentiments of one confirmed | <note>These are the sentiments of one confirmed by long<add>diligent</add> reflection in the habit of regarding every such <gap/> the Tablets of Jurisprudence as <unclear>pernicious,</unclear> every word added without necessity to the system as giving <gap/> for the whole: being <gap/>, and every infringement upon the liberty of the people made without apparent necessity, as unjustifiable & pernicious.</note> | ||
It is surprising that Men who should find no difficulty in admitting the existence<lb/>of this connection for 6 days in the week, should imagine it singularly dissolved<lb/>every 7<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>, as if there were that magic in the name of a particular day that<lb/>could alter <hi rend='superscript'><sic>controul</sic></hi> the nature of things <add>—as if the indissoluble check of causes and effects would interrupt <add>break off</add><lb/>itself to accommodate itself to their prejudices</add> | It is surprising that Men who should find no difficulty in admitting the existence<lb/>of this connection for 6 days in the week, should imagine it singularly dissolved<lb/>every 7<hi rend='superscript'>th</hi>, as if there were that magic in the name of a particular day that<lb/>could alter <hi rend='superscript'><sic>controul</sic></hi> the nature of things <add>—as if the indissoluble check of causes and effects would interrupt <add>break off</add><lb/>itself to accommodate itself to their prejudices</add> | ||
the lower class of people, <unclear>whose</unclear> benefit it is that is most in view, are the very<lb/>persons <add>with respect to</add>to whom it is most certain of being ineffective, since <add>it is</add>they are not qualified<add>who are the the persons least</add><lb/>to fill up the vacated time <del><gap/> a <gap/></del><add>by <gap/>occupations [relative</add>: and mischievous, since<lb/>to fill<add>keep up</add>up the equilibrium of <gap/>, virtuous thoughts & occupations will inevitably<lb/>enter in at the gap. | the lower class of people, <unclear>whose</unclear> benefit it is that is most in view, are the very<lb/>persons <add>with respect to</add>to whom it is most certain of being ineffective, since <add>it is</add>they are not qualified<add>who are the the persons least</add><lb/>to fill up the <unclear>vacated</unclear> time <del><gap/> a <gap/></del><add>by <gap/>occupations [relative</add>: and mischievous, since<lb/>to fill<add>keep up</add>up the equilibrium of <gap/>, virtuous thoughts & occupations will inevitably<lb/>enter in at the gap. | ||
<note>continue <add>to look upon</add>the loosening | <note>continue <add>to look upon</add>the loosening of the collection with so much accumulated <unclear>waste</unclear> paper <add><gap/><gap/></add>to be a matter of indifference that every <del><gap/></del> crude expedient which bears in it's front the <unclear>talk</unclear> of a provision for the promoting of Religion is to be set in <gap/>for asking.</note> | ||
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SUNDAY
The Act Bill forwhat is called the better observance of this day may be stiled a provision of Indirect
Legislation for the encouragement of vice.
A la bonne heure, when anyone can make the a world in six days let him be made to rest the 7th.
Very different would the case be it be, if with the same facility that with which people may be driven
from the obnoxious pursuits, they could fixed to those on which it is wishedthe design to fix them.
A mischief is never so dangerous nor so difficult to be shaken off, as when the ill
policy of the measure is <unclear>screened varnished over by
piety of the design.
There is a wide difference between running a against prejudices, and officiously lending them assistance.
The connection between Industry & Virtue on the one handIdleness and Vice on the other, is so close & necessary, as
nothing can dissolve—
The mixed of &
Is there no Father of the Church who has strength of mind discernment to descry the latent poison
at the bottom of this specious remedy?
The grand source of illusion in this as in so many other Articles is the inconsiderate
transference transposing in of their own ideas on the breasts of others — they order in & lay out the
pursuits of the illiterate vulgar, the principal objects of these regulations, as they would
their own — They do not consider that how impossible it is that those
because an occupation, capable of filling up the time thus emptied of every other
to any but minds by education, fraught with various kinds of preliminary
Ideas ,acquirements speculation accustomed to feed with relish on abstractions
(after they linger out their moments in a state of torpid listlessness, and languor
or they torn missed is to and lose their senses: or plunge into the pursuits of
& forbidden pleasure
It is not in the power of aadded text a inalterable constitutions of things statute can to destroy the connection of causes & effects
These are the sentiments of one confirmed by longdiligent reflection in the habit of regarding every such the Tablets of Jurisprudence as pernicious, every word added without necessity to the system as giving for the whole: being , and every infringement upon the liberty of the people made without apparent necessity, as unjustifiable & pernicious.
It is surprising that Men who should find no difficulty in admitting the existence
of this connection for 6 days in the week, should imagine it singularly dissolved
every 7th, as if there were that magic in the name of a particular day that
could alter controul the nature of things —as if the indissoluble check of causes and effects would interrupt <add>break off
itself to accommodate itself to their prejudices</add>
the lower class of people, whose benefit it is that is most in view, are the very
persons with respect toto whom it is most certain of being ineffective, since it isthey are not qualifiedwho are the the persons least
to fill up the vacated time a by occupations [relative: and mischievous, since
to fillkeep upup the equilibrium of , virtuous thoughts & occupations will inevitably
enter in at the gap.
continue to look uponthe loosening of the collection with so much accumulated waste paper to be a matter of indifference that every crude expedient which bears in it's front the talk of a provision for the promoting of Religion is to be set in for asking.
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