ISBN: 9781153789011

Excerpt: ...on his visit to England, if one talks of religion. Of the prominent statesmen of the time the greater part were unbelievers in any form of Christianity, and distinguished for … Altro …

Excerpt: ...on his visit to England, if one talks of religion. Of the prominent statesmen of the time the greater part were unbelievers in any form of Christianity, and distinguished for the grossness and immorality 7-170 of their lives. Drunkenness and foul talk were thought no discredit to Walpole. A later prime minister, the Duke of Grafton, was in the habit of appearing with his mistress at the play. Purity and fidelity to the marriage vow were sneered out of fashion; and Lord Chesterfield, in his letters to his son, instructs him in the art of seduction as part of a polite education. Sloth of the clergy. At the other end of the social scale lay the masses of the poor. They were ignorant and brutal to a degree which it is hard to conceive, for the increase of population which followed on the growth of towns and the developement of commerce had been met by no effort for their religious or educational improvement. Not a new parish had been created. Hardly a single new church had been built. Schools there were none, save the grammar schools of Edward and Elizabeth. The rural peasantry, who were fast being reduced to pauperism by the abuse of the poor-laws, were left without much moral or religious training of any sort. We saw but one Bible in the parish of Cheddar, said Hannah More at a far later time, and that was used to prop a flower-pot. Within the towns things were worse. There was no effective police; and in great outbreaks the mob of London or Birmingham burnt houses, flung open prisons, and sacked and pillaged at their will. The criminal class gathered boldness and numbers in the face of ruthless laws which 7-171 only testified to the terror of society, laws which made it a capital crime to cut down a cherry tree, and which strung up twenty young thieves of a morning in front of Newgate; while the introduction of gin gave a new impetus to drunkenness. In the streets of London gin-shops at one time invited every passer-by to get drunk for a... John Richard Green, Books, History, History Of The English People (of 8) Volume Vii Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1153789019

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ISBN: 1153789019

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ISBN: 9781153789011

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ISBN: 9781153789011

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