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Foreign News
September 1, 1774
The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
What is this article about?
A correspondent satirically critiques the Bishop of Gloucester's treatise on grace, arguing it implies virtue is proportional to social rank, making poor curates scoundrels while elevating nobles and the King of Prussia as paragons of virtue.
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Full Text
A Correspondent remarks, that the Bishop of Gloucester has been so fortunate as to discover (and in his Treatise on Grace too) that Honours are the true Foundation of Virtue. He says, "Honourable and Right Honourable Personages have the Seeds of Virtue naturally in them." Upon this Principle, so worthy of a Dignitary of the Church, Men are good and virtuous in exact Proportion to their Rank; consequently all the poor Curates in the Kingdom are great Scoundrels, in the same Degree that his Lordship is humble, generous, humane, and pious; and the King of Prussia, instead of being the Cartouche, or the Bolingbroke of Europe, is a better Man than any in his own Dominions, and upon a Footing even with the best of Princes.
What sub-type of article is it?
Religious Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Bishop Of Gloucester
Treatise On Grace
Virtue And Honors
Social Rank
King Of Prussia
What entities or persons were involved?
Bishop Of Gloucester
King Of Prussia
Where did it happen?
Gloucester
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Gloucester
Key Persons
Bishop Of Gloucester
King Of Prussia
Event Details
A correspondent remarks on the Bishop of Gloucester's discovery in his Treatise on Grace that honors are the foundation of virtue, stating that honorable persons have natural seeds of virtue, implying virtue proportional to rank, making poor curates scoundrels while the bishop is virtuous, and elevating the King of Prussia above others.