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 xxxx. erre.�iiiu. 47 j!udged of the merits of men by their abi}ifies in thig art"icular  and we_ have a famous ftory of a m0ii adous and long-headed king, who gave a n thole times, two bifho?rieks at once for a ._ffalis Rex, tolls Grex  the common: people born row 7hir faflom nd their opinions rom-th court. and therefbre it ,s no wonder that a punning mo- narch produc'd a race of punning and un-admirhe liege �ubje&s:. plain fenfe was efteefia'd nontn from the pulplb which rung with ambiguities and double meanings; the oor firmer was mi hti], �P g Y awaken d to h _duty by a pretty i0u, and often- time owed his fairorion to a quibble or a drum i the devil wa jefled out of his dominions, nd heaven was crouPled with religious and Indeed tlae pro&ice of' iunnlng in the [uIit at prefent fomewha abated; Dr. S o  a' vi bering, think, the loft Ieamed divine that is eminent-for his fpiritual doking to five louis. But it i not yet wholly difu:d; e�pecially when the pervertne�s the times will not permit the good man to ddi- yet his meaning llinly and ex�li�ite to hi congre- gation. Thu, the reverend Mr. Whartra on the z9th of ay, x ? x9, toki us in a very emphaticaI manner, batjuflie, (,amongft other great-.wonders which Ferf3rms) RESWORE'Vii all things, and I have heard of another orthodox parrot, who chot for his Text, (which, by way' of preamble, he tokl us was the ,ord of God,) Jolts the third, and the �From hence it appears, that Poesn is not in. trdy banied from the tulpt, it being frequently made u�e of, on great emergences, to fecure the f_un/?ior in the execution of their dty, and even �ometimes lUreiy out of waggery and wanton- $om.e

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