The Poetical Works of the Right Hon. George Canning Comprising the Whole of his Satires, Odes, Songs, and Other Poems |
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Last of the Anointed five behold, and least,
The Directorial Lama, Sovereign Priest,—
Lepaux: whom athiests worship; at whose nod
Bow their meek heads the men without a God.
The Directorial Lama, Sovereign Priest,—
Lepaux: whom athiests worship; at whose nod
Bow their meek heads the men without a God.
The men without a God—one of the new sects.—Their religion is intended to consist in the adoration of a Great Book, in which all the virtuous actions of the Society are to be entered and registered. “In times of Civil Commotion they are to come forward, to exhort the Citizens to unanimity, and to read them a chapter out of the Great Book. When oppressed or proscribed, they are to retire to a burying-ground, to wrap themselves up in their great coats, and wait the approach of death.” &c.
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