1
results found in
65 ms
Page 1
of 1
1818 Aug. 26.
Things as they are
§.5. Matter of Corruption
7
No folly to receive the Bill: folly to honour it.
7. Factitious Dignity. In the manufacture of this commodity as /a more/ curious an instance /may be seen/ of the union of human folly on the one part with human knavery on the other as is to be seen any where /will scarcely any where be to be found/. It is a manufacture the monopoly of which is in the hands of the Monarch for the purposes of the Monarch will the produce be therefore of course be bestowed, and though not an altogether unexampled one the case in which it is given /bestowed/ for any other purpose than that of corruption will always be a rare one. The pretence on which it is carried on is that of bestowing the produce of it in the character of a reward for the encouragement of merit of merit {or where merit means any thing beyond /other/ than the state of the affection on the part of him who applies the word as towards him to whom it is applied,} meritorious service rendered to the public. That of which it is evidence at the bar of common sense - and in all cases nearly conclusive evidence is merit of that sort which consists in /in the habit or supposed disposition to/ obsequiousness: in obsequiousness as towards the Monarch and those who in this behalf are his advisers.
Factitious dignity is either spiritual or temporal: in both cases it is of various sorts and sexes.
1. In the spiritual department according to the title employed in the giving the certificate, the quality or quantity or degree of merit rises in degrees designated by various appropriate epithets: in the ascending scale 1 Reverend, 2. Venerable 3. Very Reverend, 4. Right Reverend, 5. Most Reverend: Status and titles those of 1. Simple Clergymen by whom as such the holy Ghost has been received and whether by means of the holy Ghost money in the shape of benefit has or has not been made. 2. Very Reverend the Dean: 3. Venerable, the Archdeacon who in the office of doing nothing is to some purposes assistant and subordinate to the Bishop. 4. Right Reverend, the Bishop: 5. Most Reverend the Archbishop. 6. Most religious as well as Gracious, the Monarch, whose seat /sitting part/ whether male or female tops all the hierarchy.
Similar Items
-
Title: [1818 Aug. 26. Things as they are]Description: 1818 Aug. 26. Things as they are §.5. Matter of Corruption 5 In the case where the power bestowed in this way by the Monarch is in name and shew as above coordinate to his own, he loses /parts with/ nothing by the bestowal of it: it is not at his own expence but at the expence of those who share in it under the same name that it is thus bestowed In the case of the Lords Spiritual, {so called because all of them are by Act of Parliament full of the Holy Spirit otherwise called the Holy Ghost,} the number being by usage limited, it is all profit to him and without loss, as often as the occasion arrives /comes/ for filling it up. In the case of the Lay-Lords, by which is meant those who have not the benefit of being impregnated by any such gas, a loss /an expence/ there is, but among the persons suffering it /on whom it falls/ the Monarch is not to be found: they are the already existing Lords, in whose company the new one is intruded. By corruption in this shape are kept in subjection all those men, if any such there are, who are not capable of being kept in subjection by money or ribbons: all the Lords themselves with the exception of those who being already on the highest level can not be raised any higher: all those future contingent Lords who under the unassuming name of country Gentlemen, avenging themselves upon their dependants in /for/ the prostration manifested by them towards the Monarch and his acting servants /advisers/, cease not till the sale is completed to boast of that independence which the nature of their situation and their prospects have /designed[?] to/ banished for ever from their hearts.
-
Title: [1820 Feb. 19 Radicalism not dangerous]Description: 1820 Feb. 19 Radicalism not dangerous III Experience II Ireland Radicalism - its origin? Factitious dignity {Look /Apply it/ to the […?] of Gods word.} Look to these Lords Spiritual. Look to these receptacles of the Holy Holy Ghost who began /after having begun/ with being filled with that unviable[?] and imponderable and inconceivable gas, and the elect among them with being possessed /the possessor/ of a widow’s course[?], from /out of/ which they produce on the part of a number of others withal […?] in equally sufficient plenitude. Look to these sacred /holy/ receptacles of the Holy Ghost who after declaring themselves so to be, burn /are eager/ to cry blasphemy against and bring destruction upon the audacious miscreant who shall have dared to tell them so, to bring it to their remembrance. Look to these fleshly /carnal/ receptacles of spiritual gas see the quantity of factitious dignity which along with it has been injected into their sacred bosoms see the quantity of the manner of unrighteousness[?] which has been injected along with it for the support of all that dignity and the piety which so neverfailingly accompanies it /so inseparably adheres to it/: look to the fine linens into[?] which they are clothed /arrayed/ with & the purple in which their very servants are arrayed look to the sumptuous fees which every[?] beclothes[?] /lends/ their titles look to the thrones on which some of them sit look to the palaces which all of them inhabit all for the purpose of shewing what Christian humility is not only by precept but by practice. Look[?] at the quality of faith which they all possess look at the quality of hope which most of them possess /entertain/, virtues by the exuberance[?] of which the desired charity the last and lowest of these virtues is so well understood to be superaded[?]. [Marginal insertion:] who are not to be satisfied unless the facts of the affection[?] be taken for true and for false by the same man at the same time true for the purpose of its being believed, false for the purpose of punishing the man /wretch/ when […?] and audacity has dared to bring it to remembrance.
-
Title: [1817 Sept. 2 Not Paul 8 2 o]Description: 1817 Sept. 2 Not Paul 8 2 o Ch. 9. Paul’s Doctrines 3 § Causes of P.s Asceticism §. 3. Paul’s asceticism absurd 3. Behold now a third argument. A man’s body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. But being the temple of the Holy Ghost it belongs to the Holy Ghost and so to God, with whom the Holy Ghost is sometimes the same thing sometimes a different thing. But / Moreover / belonging as it does to the Holy Ghost and to God or to one or the other or to both it belongs not to the man himself: therefore he ought not to do with it the thing in question. So says Paul: nor as some one else might add, any thing else: but, not being of any great use to the purpose of the arguments this more extensive conclusion may be suffered to drop without further notice. 4. Count / Behold / now the last in this string of arguments: and high time it surely is that they should come to an end. By the sentence to wit by which Jesus was put to death A man of / every man belonging to / the set of men in question was bought by Jesus alias / i.e. / Christ alias / i.e. / the Lord with a price: and by the fact of a man’s abstaining from the gratification belonging to the sense in question, God (by whom the Lord has been so raised as aforesaid) is glorified: that is made more glorious than he would have been otherwise: glorified viz in the man’s body, as also in the same man’s spirit: the said body and the same spirit being both of them God’s: or to save ambiguity say at the hazard of misinterpretation say belonging to God. But, as, per argument 2, a man’s being a member of a harlot is a bad thing, God’s being made more glorious than he was is a good thing.
1
results found.
Page 1
of 1