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minal cases , to serve on juries , or to bear any office or place of profit in the government . " It appears to me , that those in authority have here failed in legislative acumen , flow could they pretend to extend their liberal enactment to the
oath , requiring acts of a future session or of future parliaments ? The next head in the collection of Extracts is Appeals . In the legislating on these , we shall find that the covering of their assembly has not been the overshadowing of charity ; the hard words , however , of anathema maranatha are not uttered in their excommunications or disownments . JOHN WALKER .
90 Onesipjiorus.*—On Mr. J. Short's Epit...
90 OnesipJiorus . *—On Mr . J . Short ' s Epitaph ,
In 2 Tim. I. 16—-18, Mention Is Made Of ...
IN 2 Tim . i . 16— -18 , mention is made of Onesiphorus . If any person can assert whether Onesiphorus
was alive at the time that St . Paul wrote this letter , and will communicate it to the public , he will oblige one of your constant readers , J . J .
P * S . Though the pious Dr * W *\ tts says so much in support of the eternity of future punishment , yet he seems to have had some doubt aboufc it . See a note of his on this subject in the Berry-Street Lectures , Vol . I . pp . 556—558 . He also says in his Sermons , entitled " The World to Come , "
p . , 38 , " Whensoever any such criminal in hell shall be found making such a sincere and mournful address to the righteous and merciful Judge of all ; if , at the same time , he is truly humble and penitent for his past sins , and is grieved at his heart for having
offended his Maker , and melts into sincere repentance ; I cannot think that a God of perfect equity and rich mercy will continue such a creature under his vengeance ; but rather , that the perfections of God will contrive a way for escape , though God has not given us here any revelation or discovery of such special grace as this . "
Liverpool, Sir, January 7, 1819, Very Lo...
Liverpool , Sir , January 7 , 1819 , VERY long epitaph on Mr . J . A Short , Jun ., occupies a prominent situation in your last Number . [ XIII . 733 . ] 'In productions of this kind , we have a right to look for strength of thought , and the utmost
Liverpool, Sir, January 7, 1819, Very Lo...
purity of diction ; and when , in addition to these essentials , they are found to possess the quality of' " " beauty , " they must be considered as compositions of no mean desert . Iu my estimate of thfe merits of the one in
question , 1 am under th # necessity of differing widely from the gentleman by whom it was communicated to you ; and I cannot help thinking , that , into his high commendation of it , h £ has been . beguiled by some pleasing mental associations with the name of JBadcock . «* the celebrated
Mr . Badcock , ' by whom it was " drawn up . " Having no fibre in my frame , that thrills responsive to that name , several things strike me as glaring faults , to point out which cannot be unimportant , considering the passport to fame which the composition has received .
The first six lines contain a greater number of broken metaphors , jumbled together with literal expressions , than * can , I think , be found in any other sentence of equal length , " A youth whose very childhood
opened like the fairest dawnings of the morn , with those flattering prospects of future excellence , which his more ripened years confirmed with fresh hopes , and received with growing lustre . "
Now , the morn may be said to op & i or dawu > but the dawning ( not dawnings ) of the morn cannot be said to open . Had Mr . Badcock written , 44 youth whose childhood opened , like the fairest morn , with those
bright prospects of future excellence , to which advancing years gave larger extent and growing lustre / ' the sentence would have been * least , intelligible and free from the encumbrance of eight superfluous , and for the most part , incongruous words .
Why " real knowledge' ? Knowledge may be either superficial or profound ; but if it exist at all , it must have reality . 44 Art" is said to have improved the bounty of nature ; certainly , what is meant is that laborious exertion in
the acquirement of art , ( or knowledge , ) co-operated with the natural talents with which he was endowed : but the temptation of an antithesis vi ^ as too strong to be resisted . We may say that " a man , " such
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 90, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_22021819/page/22/
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