A journal of eight days journey from Postsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. : with miscellaneous thoughts, moral and religious : in a series of sixty-four letters, addressed to two ladies of the partie : to which is added, An essay on tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation, with an account of its growth, and great consumption in these Kingdoms, with several political reflections, and thoughts on public love : in twenty-five letters to the same ladies / by a gentleman of the partie.

  • Jonas Hanway
Date:
1756
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A journal of eight days journey from Postsmouth to Kingston upon Thames, through Southampton, Wiltshire, &c. : with miscellaneous thoughts, moral and religious : in a series of sixty-four letters, addressed to two ladies of the partie : to which is added, An essay on tea, considered as pernicious to health, obstructing industry, and impoverishing the nation, with an account of its growth, and great consumption in these Kingdoms, with several political reflections, and thoughts on public love : in twenty-five letters to the same ladies / by a gentleman of the partie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    thought of; “ I am thinking,” fays he, “ of the great god of “ heaven, and that I mu ft die !”—’Tis amazing how reafon ri¬ pens in fome children ; how much depends on our parents ; and how deep the belief of a gcJd is implanted in us! After dinner Mrs. g******** conducted us to the cathedra], where we performed our duty to god, enraptured with an an¬ them of her chufing. The higheft foretafte of the entertain¬ ments of bleffed fpirits, feems to be that of the heart, devoted to the fervice of god, joined to a well-improved underftand- ing, and afiifted by a lively imagination. If to thefe we add that fenlibility of the charms of mufic, which fome poffefs as if it were by immediate infpiration from heaven, what pleafure can we conceive to be more exalted ? Whenever divines or poets attempt to give us a notion of ce- leftial joys, how naturally they recur to the idea of mufic ! What would the devotion of the vulgar be without finging ? If we look into the world at large, we fhall find that all nations, of all religions, ufe finging of fome kind or other. The mahommedan priefts, at certain ftated hours, from turrets ere&ed for that purpofe, pronounce their creed with loud ac¬ clamations, and invoke the people to pray ; tho’ in private they repeat their addreffes to the almighty in a low voice, or awful filence. The pagans invoke their gods with loud fongs of praife and thankfgiving. The jews are very loud in their pub¬ lic prayers. You know the greatefl: part of the devotion of the romanists is performed by finging. The Lutherans and cal¬ vinists, tho’ feparated from the papists, would think they E per-