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SHAW, WilliAM

THE

LIFE

OF

HANNAH MORE.

WITH

A Critical Review

OF HER

WRITINGS.

By the Rev. Sir Archibald Mac Sarcasm, Bart., pseud.

"If there's a sin more deeply black than others,
"Distinguish'd from the list of common crimes,
"A legion in itself, and doubly dear

"To the dark Prince of Hell, it is-Hypocrisy."

Oh! the curst ungodliness of zeal.

H. MORE'S PERCY.

YOUNG.

Now, I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions
and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and
avoid them. ROM. xvi. 17.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR T. HURST;

AND SOLD BY EMERY AND ADAMS, BRISTOL; BARRATT,
AND BALLY, BATH; AND EVILL, WELLS.

Emery and Adams, Printers,

BRISTOL.

1802.

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Director Richardson 4-24-51

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PREFACE.

IMPELLED by the curiosity natural to the mind of man, I have diverted myself in reading the pamphlets, that rose like mushrooms, on the theatre of the Blagdon war, during the last two years.— This amusement has been strongly recommended to me by the faculty, having received benefit from the waters; for my constitution has sustained much injury in the wars of all sorts, and with all weapons, the pen, words, and the sword, in all climates, among all nations, people, kindreds, and languages, in which I myself, as well as my ancestors, for at least five thousand years, have, with various success, been engaged.

In this atrabilarious contest, the blood that has been shed is of the blackest kind, and indicates great rancour, melancholy, spleen, malice, hatred, and revenge, with a total absence of the milk of human kindness, love, forgiveness, charity, and a mutual

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