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^ 1 S Wr iters on Materialism . —Dr . Coward . —Letter TJT .
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courUeducation , which excites the courtier zealously to admire , approve , and commend all ways and means that are found out to contribute to the grandeur- and
support the magnificence of a court , as undoubtedly money doth always * For the more plentifully a prince is supplied by his subjects , the better able will he be to
reward his servants , and gratify his favourites , which every courtier trenuously aims at , and in time expects , at least hopes , to be . Whilst the couutry-politician , though he thinks it absolutely
fiecessary . for the advantage , support and honour of a , prince , that the hearts and purses of the subjects should be freely open , yet cannot approve of that way to do ify by that ingenious invention the courtier so much admires , tut
rather esteems it a great grievance , * ud a burden almost insupportable to those who aye forced to , prose-§ ute or defend their rightf by law * The lew itself , as ; it is now managed , iind become a trade of craft
in form , being a sufficient burden withvut the additional duty of Si , — $ r ^ per , because ^ it is an affliction to them , Wh ' o are all already grieved ; for although a man cannot ofttimes obtain or
defend his right , without the assistance of law , yet the rtiethods of obtaining justice , in England ^ ( to our shame be it spoken ) are became so very injurious , chargeable , and oppressive , by reason bf the il ^ iny processes , through so many
offices , that the good honest subject is become "a mere Issathar ^ an ass crouching under his burdew , as it were , laden with wool , aofi forced to pass chrongh deep waters , to add more weight to his afllictioti . Forj although jn $ tice
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«in the courts runs down like mighty streamy yet too true is the similitude , by reason of the numerous delays and charges , besides the bigotry , * sometimes , of a pre . judiced judge , it very often
overwhelms the subject , whom at first it was designed to refresh . " ( Id Dr . Kippis , who appears never to have seen the " Second
I t \ # ^ lir ^ * - » fro * ^ - » * " » » - * r \ I 11 r \ r »• : » t *»/\ « -w » « - » . ^ Thoughts , ' concludes , from a po . litical essay attached to a didactic poem , published by Coward in 1709 , that the author > ' was a very zealous whig- * ' I think , uppi
his own authorities , just quoted , he was in 1702 , a genuine high church son of Oxford , a tory , if not a jacobite . Nor did he express himself differently in 1704 , when he published the second edition of " Second Thoughts /'
which , by the favour of a friend f have had an opportunity of examjning . The free sentiments in the last passage quoted from Coward , might seem unsuitable from a royalist . It has , however , beei
found that such politicians , especially when unprejudiced by court favour , have expressed sentiments on the practice of government , worthy of the ' mostpopular theory . The writings of Swift and
Bolingbroke , who were disaffected tones , contain , I apprehend , more manly censures of kings and courts , thai those of the loyal whigs , SteeU and Addison . I have quoted Dr . Coward & largely , considering it as not besidi
my purpose to shew , in his own words , the vast difference onsoffl * great political questions between our author and those who in later times have ably advocated h JI favourite theologicai sentiment . Two writers will moi ' &tiff >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/26/
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