Public Ledger (Newspaper) - August 30, 1760, London, Middlesex I. Or Daily Register of Number j 99 and Intelligence 3 o 1760. The V I S I T O R. NUMBER By Philanthropy Thou art ever feen fen in the great and the Each globe above with its gigantic Each each with its To from declare Their common H E Evening was calm ana All nature was in that the at the fegt the bouring rolled in its foamy and fent forth its continued murmurs from the When to my contemplations on the I walked into the beneath the of the who an as fhe walked in and through the There is a peculiar grandeur in the I never behold the but I am charmed with that which I have how and which is an of The moon walking in But if the we fail to be with that gracious of which has ordained the moon a longer and a fuller in the of when the laborious willing to the golden extend their toils to a later and of longer and more rejoice in the favourable hind the thick and in clouds to their on our he command that fun to flame forth with intolerable and to dart forth his rays parched and earth to which every from above was and all fountains in were drying gently upon and only wave yielding nut roughly level it with the or tear it from the Indeed we are the declaration of war canine f ciej to have been not fo much upon well and the evidence of that and are peculiarly j credible as upon the r r f * - 1 l 1 1 - i up - how foon we feel the malignant effeCts; how forcible we be compelled to our own and Jehovah's Let us be careful to it and to engage its beneficent by a greatful remembrance of the hand which feeds us and by a lovely of all to when we receive that all in the moil copious Services of are the of Haves love and gratitude are expected The word of God is compared to feed the work of to the growth of as we have cannot The influences of of the We will leave to account for this extraordinary in nature it be for us to that it is undoubtedly the wife nd benign of nature's a God ever regardful of his creatures long hills and vales all which look forich and joyful with their plenteous were barren and brown but the tarns the glebe fee the lower the and calls forth his liberal handfuls the harrow follows and the And thus man hath done his for the reft he confidently relies on the favour of heaven and doubts not to convey to his in its full for loads that will make the bending axle for his liberal handfuls - How amazing is the work who would conceive that of vegetation that that from corruption and But we have unerring truth to prove as well as constant experience nothing is except it die The wheat fomenting before it downward its or rears upwards its tender and green head to the fun How as well as beautiful an emblem of that capital truth in the the of the Which as a feed is fown in the fown in to be in fown in to be in For we that as it is not the the fame in &c. which was that up but a plant far exceeding it in beauty and elegance fo will it be with our future which we now in this mortal are but the feeds of whi Chrift and of the upon the are compared to in every the light of the world the fun of The holy is as as to the is finely faid by the in reference I will be as the dew unto he pall grow as the and forth his root as From hence we are of how great it is for us to the influences of if we the word of the feed of to and bring forth fruit in- our - Their influences are to be by 3 diligent attendance upon means which are appointed to convey and by a and of which we owe to our and Thus we bring forth fome fome and fome an hundred or an hundred great as it may is no marvellous or very for that which at we more the I winch as if not more than any other production of the fame An abundant proof of the wife and fatherly care of who hath made vvhich is molt to moil An which by no means terminates in the objeCt of our We from ed of three and four ears from one And when we remark the prodigious quantity of through every department of we cannot wonder at this to liberality of the bounteous creator's How at able to the fo far from harming the tender they ferve to promote its to it their nutritive and to wrap it with their and though flow in its till the approach of equally quick are its to when the tisne of advances that it then ripens more in two or three than in two or three we from not to be too much if we perceive the growth of our and our to be flow and al molt This maybe of to the anxious to approve in the fight of God but is in reality no foundation for and It is enough for if the true feed is if we are careful to perform our and live under the influence of heavenly vvhich alone can bring our graces to and and which will undoubtedly bring them to if we and patiently Endure even the chilling of and the of tryal and which fo far from harming our rather tend to promote and forward it. afflictions are to what and are to the profitable and in fome And when we have weathered out the the nearer we approach to that great day of on which the reap us into his we may that we ripen with greater halien more and more to the more we the place of and ufe the fine words of the to our in m full an age full and full of fruits as a of cornet It in its 1 The jours dark battered and Lets in new thai time has of which alone does not much the regard of granting it is to kill fuch as are found loofe about the it is not I to abandon to the barbarity of and of men more than the animals they Hardly a dog that has entered two certain the 4th of has escaped with his the boys having been encouraged to kill every one that came within their reach and in one of they were rewarded for it. This may be a good way to make and ruffians but it is not fo likely to make good citizens and humane men t am fure it is not the method which Mr. Locke recommends to of humanity into young Men may be guilty of and even to the and to knock one dog on the head another is feems to be not much more and eq than it would be to kill one man another had the Of the numbers who have lately engaged in this does any man of common fenfe that one has done it more for the and of than for the fake of the or to make a profit of the or to indulge the natural inhumanity of his temper and if 11 and hurtful creatures were to be how many do you think would As divers of our tho' very worthy men in all other may not be great I beg leave to a few reflections from two or three very celebrated a made 3 Stronger by wifer men become As they draw near to their eternal Leaving the both worlds at once they Who fland upon tlie of the Waller that are towards a natural to After the Romans had to of the they proceeded to of the flaughter of Nature I has imprinted in I to inhumanity an a kind of To the Printer of Public S I ANY of your readers may remember that I the violent perfection of the canine fome weeks before the prorogation of the and gave broad hints that a certain who Nobody takes ia feeing play and one but every one is delighted to fee them tear one another in pieces and that I may not be laughed at for the I have with let men that one and the fame Father has lodged us together in this palace for his and rhat they as well as we are of his family theology us fome affeCtion and regard to u the more moderate J meet with arguments that endeavour to the near betwixt the lame how is it has been labouring theie four or five years to us and how they ch we put on at the n and we are allowed to from this of St. that the latter will as much exceed the former in glory and as the lovely and in its perfect exceeds the and comparatively inelegant Our vile fays the fnail be like unto his glorious according to his mighty when nature holds forth to us fo an emblem of this great and important concern to are we not to a much more a of fo an article The warmth of the and the dews of whatever elfe may be are to the work of It cannot be carried on without And if either or given in too great the languid plant and the What a of dependance upon doth this teach and how much it us to adore his exuberant goodnek He us with fruitful and abundance of But if he how could he from us the bread of hfe and give pale famine to lay waite our had I Should he hide his life-giving fun be- He openeth his and fillet h all things living with how much - this fertility in us to an increase in every good word and We fee the mighty ruler of the glorious in all his contemns the gard of and rejoices in the of generous plenty In whatever we are let it not be in virtue let us go on from grace to from to from excellence to adding continually to that where every work of and labour of is whence they hereafter be to our and For he who now travels along the road of this bearing his precious Jeed with arc come again with and bring his with There is another particular in the which mult not be palled as to the care of that which the eye cannot fail to trace in the that its capability of enduring all the the and the and of the As it is to its maturity and that it be fown and continue all the winter months in the ground this certainly is a proof of a governor and director fince no other than that of unerring can be found adequate to fuch an we that tho' the grain appears above the not long after it is yet it rifes to no great till the danger of the wintry is over very flow and imperceptible is its till the milder zephyrs breathe r * Two of this kind fen at Rome in the and Eat they arc trilling to what the of Nature tells us of the one gnu a of which he us idd da oi get an aCt for laying a tax upon might be very this fummer in creating the epidemic terror the traveller in hints were again thrown in a before the end of as I that a word to the wife would be but I ought rather to have recollected an of that our wits are either in the garret or in the of which we have now a The letter you have to is not fit to appear in the form given it by the ingenious but I make ufe of his judicious and only alter the manner of his He There is certainly a of the when it would be highly proper to or at not them to about This time confin rove i is the part of heac being the chief caufe of the rabies It appears therefore to that the order concerning with more either have been limited to one or a month fooner as the weather in July is much hotter than in The fame difference holds good between and October but if a regard to the of the has been any way condur cive to a prolongation of the war dogs till the end of I would only humbly gentry to now and then a little and there will be a greater plenty of Though it has been faid by that the public of this city liberties are infefted by great numbers of mad without telling us the how many is a great yet there is to be- j that as few have run and as little been done by any preceding and as and with how great probability they compare and couple us I abate a great deal of our and willingly let fall the title of that imaginary which fome attribute to us over the But all this were there is a certain and a general duty that ties us not only to that have life and but even to trees and We owe to but grace and benignity to other crea u es that are capable of Mr. Pope thinks it not to that mankind no in accountable for the ill ufe of dominion over the lower rank of thaa for the of tyranny over their own The more entirely the inferior creation is to our the more we feem for our of and the as the very condition of nature renders creatures incapable of receiving any recompence in another for their ill-treatment in The excellent in the life of Cato the takes from the Severe of that to in this manner ought to be a to that our humanity has a wider to exert than bare It is no more than the obligation of our very to equity to our own kind but humanity may be extended through the of even to the ' It is certainly the part of a well-natured man to take care of his and not only in expectation of their labour while they are foals and but evea when their old age has made them incapable of There is a in the book of when God declares his unwillingness to that of the which extends to
