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would not have if the Church were independent of the power 

 of the State,) to insincerity and the unearnest formation of 

 opinions to unreality, which is deadness in a church. 



That the constant practice of perjury and the most miser 

 ably Jesuitical notions of truth and falsehood, and that weak 

 ness and imbecility of both Church and State, is the direct 

 and inevitable result at the present day of such a connection 

 as is attempted to be sustained between them in England, 

 it is as obvious and certain to me as any thing can be, that 

 such great and good men as the divines and statesmen of 

 England have different opinions with regard to. 



There is a large green, close planted with trees, about the 

 cathedral, and facing upon it are the official residences of the 

 regiment of clergy, high priests and low, that under some 

 form or other are provided with livings in connection with it. 

 In front of one of these barracks was planted a bomb-mortar 

 with what signification 1 



There is another public promenade in Hereford, upon the 

 site of an old castle which was demolished by Cromwell. 



The ramparts are grassed over, and there are fine trees, 

 ponds, gravel-walks, an obelisk in honour of Nelson, some 

 graceful irregularities of surface, and a broad, purling stream 

 of clear water flowing by it all. Here, before noon, we found 

 a considerable company, of varied character : ladies walking 

 briskly and talking animatedly ; invalids, wrapped up and sup 

 ported, loitering in the sun ; cripples, moving about in wheel 

 chairs ; students or novel-readers in the deepest shades ; and 

 every where, many nursery-maids with children. Not a town 

 have we seen in England but has had a better garden-republic 

 than any town I know of in the United States. 



