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    333 Review . —Mrs . Lee ' s Essay on Government *

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    equal with God the Father /'Mr . Orton was . ; by this account \ relievedTFrom hisanxietyl and observed to him , that the only method he could advise him to take to get every thing set straight in his mir . d on this subject , was to read t / ie scriptures with care and diligonce , and especially those of the New Testament—to compare one passage with another , and to endeavour to discover that which was the general sense find main - object ; explaining difficult places

    by those that are the . mast plain - x and to be frequent and importunate in prayer to God for light and direction . John instantly re . plied , " Ah , my good Sir , I have already done all that , and it only increases my temptation , and makes we worse /' - —Mr . Orton pleasantly subjoined , C 6 if read * iu £ your Bible and prayer to God docs nut deliver you from your temptation , but strengthens it , tor ought I can see you must e ' en keep it ; - " and closed the interview . ^

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    Art . I . dn Essay on Government , by Mrs * R . F . A . Lee . 8 vo . pp . 333 . Price 7 s . 6 d .

    This is the work of a lady , who some five or six years since excited considerable attention at the west end of the metropolis . We have no distinct recollection of the facts , nor should we have ^ ven alluded to them , but for the purpose of saying how completely $ he has , " by this publication , redeemed her character from the charges of frivolity , to say the least of them , which seemed at that period to attach to it . A person who can reason and write as the author of the work before us , must possess a strong judgment , and a cultivated mind : she might for a moment be Jed into errors that will not easily be forgotten , but it is evident that she had within hiT those principles that once put into action would operate to bring her back to her * &lf , to assert the dignity of hp . r

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    nature , and to prove how incapable she is of persevering in a course as detrimental to her own peace as to the public interests of virtue .

    The essay consists of nearly fifty chapters , in each of which some topic of importance is discussed . The first is u On the Nature of Government : " the second is ci On the Freedom of the Press , with respect to political inquirers ; '" the third is 6 i Oh Universal Principles ); " the fourth " On Civil Distractions : " the fifth is " Sovereignty ; " and the sixth " On the Representatives of the People . " From the titles now transcribed , the reader will form some judgment of the nature of the several discussioijfe contained ) in the volume . they are not aJJ of the same import ^ aace , but they all contain sent * -

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    * ' still pleas e d to praise , tet not afrai ? to blame . " Pope ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1809, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1737/page/36/