The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D D

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rundle had a heart. Whether the censure or the praise was just is not mine to determine. AH I shall remark on the passage is, that though decency may smooth the way to courts, and insinuate itself into the highest seats of preferment, it is a heart only which is capable of deriving, from the success, a...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Rundle had a heart. Whether the censure or the praise was just is not mine to determine. AH I shall remark on the passage is, that though decency may smooth the way to courts, and insinuate itself into the highest seats of preferment, it is a heart only which is capable of deriving, from the success, a pure and solid satisfaction. Though decency without sincerity may be approved by narrow politicians, and eveo gain the applause of the multitude, by deceiving them; yet let not the hypocrite triumph, but remember, that there is one before whom all hearts are open, all desires kaown, and from whom no secrets are hidden. No. CXIX. ON THR ANIMOSITIES OCCASIONED IN THE COUNTRY BY THE GAME LAWS. In a late paper on the disagreements of a country neighbourhood, I purposely omitted one of the most fruitful causes of them, intending to consider it in a paper by itself, consistently with its extensive and important operation. I believe it will be allowed by all who have made remarks, that the individuals of this nation are more seriously and inveterately divided by disputes about the Game, than by controversies which make much more noise in the world on the subjects of politics or religion. What remains, among us of savage- ness and brutality is chiefly preserved by the meau and selfish greediness of those who possess a thousand peculiar advantages, and who yet meanly contend for an exclusive right to destroy the Game; that usufructuary property which the Creator intended to be possessed by the first occupant, like the air, light, and water Some restraints, however, of that kind, which tend to prevent the poor labourer from wasting his valuable time, might, perhaps, be neither unjust, nor in anyrespect attended with inconvenience. But the Game Laws, as they now exist in England, a...