. The political Pilgrim's progress . EXCHEQUER BILLS,and others SAVING SCRIP. On feeling thisdreadful blow, the monster gave a dispairing howlso shockingly discordant, and issued so foetid aBtench, that the very birds fell down, and Radicalwas well nigh suffocated with it. The brute, how-ever, would wait no further combat, l)ut seizinsMoral-force as in a last effort of revenge, dashedhis head against the ground and then fled, utteringshocking blasphemies in some unknown tongue,taking an eastward course in his flight. Great were now the congratulations of Radicaland his wife and children, and l
. The political Pilgrim's progress . EXCHEQUER BILLS,and others SAVING SCRIP. On feeling thisdreadful blow, the monster gave a dispairing howlso shockingly discordant, and issued so foetid aBtench, that the very birds fell down, and Radicalwas well nigh suffocated with it. The brute, how-ever, would wait no further combat, l)ut seizinsMoral-force as in a last effort of revenge, dashedhis head against the ground and then fled, utteringshocking blasphemies in some unknown tongue,taking an eastward course in his flight. Great were now the congratulations of Radicaland his wife and children, and lieartily gratefulwere they that they had taken the weapons offeredby the good .Shepherds. Radical endeavoured torevive poor Moral-force, but it was lost labour,the fiends last dreadful blow having evidentlyscattered some of the brain upon the , therefore, putting up liis sword and re-loading his musket, went on his way, proceedingvery carefully for fear of a surprise by the horridmonster at some other turn of the SCENE AT ^ANITi F THE POLITICAL PILGRIMS PROGRESS. Now, we saw in our dream, tliat Radical had togo through a long and dreary wilderness, and at itstermination there stood a very large and populoustown called Vanity; at which there was a fair heldevery day in the year ; and from this cause, thetown went generally under the name of Pilgrims to the City of Reform had to gothrough this fair ; and the records of the placeshow, that many thousands of Pilgrims have, fromtime to time, perished amidst the trials and indul-gences pf this renowned city. The place is vei*yancient, so much so, that the precise time of itsfoundaton cannot be settled by the most profoundand accurate antiquarians. The city is, however,tributary to the City of Plunder ; and is supportedout of the revenues of that town. General historyand tradition affirm that many thousands of yearsago, Beelzebub, and his two arcliangels. Tyrannyand Corruption, laid the foundation
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