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abhor * fabrication / we would have organization and system . Though we abhor fanaticism , we are not averse from wholesome * excitement . ' And though we would not , for the world , * exact' money from the literally poor , we would have all contribute that could , —though the contribution be but the widow ' s mite , —to the support of public worship and the furtherance of the gospel , and of plans of beneficence .
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Memorials of the Stuart Dynasty , including the Constitutional and Ecclesiastical History of England * from the Decease of Elizabeth to the Abdication of James II . By R . Vaughan . 2 vols . 8 vo . —Holdsr worth . We mention these volumes now , because we are apprehensive that it will not speedily be in our power to afford them that more extended
notice which they deserve , The author is a minister , mentally as well as ecclesiastically , of the Independent class . He is already advantageously known to our readers by his life of Wycliffe , which was reviewed in our number for September , 1828 . His present work is equally characterized by judgment , zeal , and indefatigable industry . His chief object is to show the influence * of the Puritans and their descendants , on the great questions of civil freedom and liberty of
conscience . ' This object is pursued with a kindred sternness of mind to that of the parties in question , which prevents his degenerating into the advocate or apologist . We feel that we have to do with an honest and conscientious narrator ; one who will not turn aside a hair ' sbreadth from the path of truth , for the sake of producing an effect . The tone of his reflections is often very liberal , because he always aims to be strictly just .
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Lives of the most Eminent British Military Commanders . By the Rev . Cr . R . Gleig . Vol . i . ( Vol .-xxv . of the Cabinet Cyclopaedia ) . The lives in this volume are those of Sir Walter Manny , Sir Francis de Vere , Oliver Cromwell , and the Duke of Marl borough . * They are selected for the purpose of exhibiting the changes which , from age to age , occurred in the tactics of our most renowned warriors . The life of Sir Walter Manny , for example , exhibits a specimen of the military
commander , at an era when war was rather a trial of bodily prowess than a science . That of Sir Francis de Vere , serves to illustrate the gradual introduction of a new system , originating in the invention of fire-arms , and necessarily resulting from it . Cromwell , of course , holds his place in this collection , as the founder of standing armies in England ; and Marlborough , as the man who first established the claim of the British soldier to take rank with the best and most
skilful in Europe . ' The purpose of the selection is further promoted by a very interesting introduction , containing a general view of the military systems recognised in England , from the earliest periods down to the present time . To some of the political reflections in the life of Cromwell we
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Critical Notices . —Controversial Pamphlets . b * f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1832, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1804/page/57/
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