NAYLOR’S SERMONS——BATES’S RURAL PHILQSOFHY- 
now enumerated. Inthe present state of so-_ 
ciety, you go forth in the morning to your 
daily labours without fear, in the evening you 
return without inquietude to your homely 
meals, and through the stillness of the night, 
you repose in your beds without alarm. Bat 
if your enemies were lorg to prevail, would 
they not, like the Egyptian task-masters of 
old, command you to make brick, and to 
supply yourselves with straw? Would they 
Jisten to your complaints, when you ‘ were 
hungry and thirsty,” and your souls were 
fainting within you?) Would they suffer von 
to rehearse, in carols of joy, all the mighty 
feats, aud all the glorious tiumphs of your 
forefathers, in defence of that liberty which 
is now your Qwn? No; they would not 
mit your tongues to utter that word, so 
miliar to the ears, and so captivating to the 
hearts of Englishmen. ‘hey would put out 
every spark of the holy fire, which now glows 
in your bosoms. They would force you to 
endure the scorching sun, and the chilling 
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frost, but without recompensing your toil, 
By compulsion you would till the land, and 
by violence they would reap your harvests, 
or they would plunder your barns. From 
the character of freemen and of Englishmen, 
they would degrade you into vassals, too im- 
poteat to be divided, and. too -contemptible 
to be pitied. Day after.day, and year after 
year, they would condemn you to the most 
ignominious drudgery, as ‘ hewers.of wood, 
and drawers .of water; and the agility of 
your youth, the vigour of your manhood, 
and even the last lingering remains of your 
strength, in tremulous and languid old ‘age, 
would be exhausted at the will, and for the 
benefit of your imperious and obdurate con- 
querors. Many of the evils here mentioned 
already impend over other countries, which, 
are unable to break their chains; and if the 
power of your enemy were equal to his fierce- 
ness, the same evils, attended by various cir- 
cumstances of aggravation, would inevitably’ 
overtake yourselves and your posterity.” 
wae a Society’ 
» of Unitarian Dissenters at Sheffield, on the 19th of October, Sc.; to which is added an 
A bpendix, containizg some Olservations on thé French’ Preparations for Invasion, and on 
the 
Mode of National Di fence, Sc. By B. Nayror. 8yo. pp. 52. 
‘THE words of Jeremiah, ch. iv. 14. 
# be ye not afraid of them, &c.” are so 
appropriate, that we are not surprised 
to open a third discourse upon the same 
text. The sermon now before us is an 
animated defence ofa war undertaken 
‘ to repel the meditated attack of a fes 
yocious enemy, whose success would 
connect with it the downfall of every 
thing in this country, which can make. 
life desirable; and with whose defeat 
the liberties, not only of Great Britain, 
but of Europe are connected.” . 
We are sorry that we cannot bestow, 
equal praise upen the appendix, in which 
much objectionable matter occurs... 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
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chiefly in Reference to a Life of Retirement in the Country. By Exy Bares, Esq. 
8vo. pp. 356. 
a” WE have perused this excellent work, 
the result cf mature deliberation, with 
much-pleasure and benefit; and we re- 
ymmend it to the serious attention. of 
ose of our readers especially, whose .in- 
Mation-or whose fortunes lead them to 
ountry life. It owes its existence to 
be Treatise on Solitude, written by Dr. 
“Zimmerman, of which it was our au- 
rs * first design to take a summary 
view ; but upon nearer inspection it ‘ap- 
peared so little capable of a logical ana- 
is, Or reducible to any certain princi- 
s, that he rather chose to pursue the 
of his own reflections.”” We have. 
on to congratulate the public upon 
is choice. ‘ Zimmerman,’ as. our 
hor justly observes, “ was a writer of 
Singular endowments ; he possessed great 
Mental sensibility, and a cast of imagi- 
nation, which might be thought sublime 5 
but he does not seem to have been 
equally distinguished by force of rea- 
soning, or solidity of judgment. ‘In. his 
philosophy he appears superficial, and 
‘in his notions of virtue wild and roman- 
tic; when most favourably estimated, 
he can rank only as a grave sentimenta- 
list.” All the valuable qualifications of 
Zimmerman have fallen to the share of 
Mr. Bates, unmixed and uninjured by. 
his errors and defects ; his imagination 
is, vigorous, his judgment stros., the 
‘ philosophy he has embraced is rational, 
and the notions he has formed of virtue 
are just and extensive. , ' 
We shall endeavour to convey some 
idea of the nature and importance ot 
this work, by a brief analysis. 
The subjects upon which it professes 
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