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Sir , that these great events pass as xnatters of course , or are almost entirely unnoticed by the periodical publications in general , while they are duly noticed by you , will , I hope , here- *
after redound to the credit of the Monthly Repository . To rejoice in the emancipation of mankind from the-shackles of pplU tical or religious oppression , well hecornes the friends and disciples of the immortal Priestley , whose successful labours so justly entitled him to the appellation of the " Preceptor of Nations /'
Not to occupy any more of the room which should be appro- * priated to your more valuable correspondents , ,-.:. lam , Sir , yours , &c , London ^ Aug . 21 . , W * H . R *
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• : ¦ ¦ ARTICLE I . Select Sermons , translated from the Original French of Lmtis Bourdaloue . &vo > ' Is . 6 d . boards . Conder . 1806 , THt sermons of Bourdaloue have been so generally read and Admired on the Continent , that it is somewhat surprising .-a good translation of any of them has not vet appeared in this
country . We say a good translation , for some of them were translated about thirty years since : the work , however , was sq wretchedly performed as to disgust every reader of even the itiost common taste : it has therefore been long and justly buried in oblivion ,
Bourdaloiie was a member of the Society of the Jesuits , and spent the early part of his life in retirement ; but such were his talents and his virtues , that he was called into public life as a preacher at Paris , and as one of the Court-preachers Ixefore Louis XIV- , In the latter office he continued during a period of thirty-four 3 ^ ears . His faithfulness , when preaching before the kiyi ^ and his courtiers , was , as is justly observed by the translator of the present volume , cc if equalled , never surpassed . ' *
The sermons of Bourdaloiie may be considered as unique iti the French school . They are not distinguished by that species of brilliant eloquence which characterises the sermons ofBosstiet , "M ' assillon , or Saurin , but for the simplicity , pdrity , and energy
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f < STItL PI / EAS ^ D TO PHAISI , TET NOT AFRAID TP BLAME , " . . ,. , [ Writers and Booksellers desirous of having their Publications noticed early la the Review of tlie Monthly Rjepository , are regueitedto send them ! as soon &s they appear , to the Editor , at the Printer ' s . ] .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/33/
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