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priesthood , as is generally the case , they are farther ^ questioned upon the Bible and ecclesiastical
history , upon the doctrines of the Lutheran church , &c . If a youth has continued seven years without attaining the qualifications which entitle him to become a
demissus , the Lector writes to his family , representing the matter to them , and he is not allowed to remain longer i * t the school . A library is attached to the establishment at Bessestad- containing probably twelve or fourteen hundred volumes ? teen volumes
: amon nunurea ; among which are a few good editions of the classics . The greater part of the library consists of Icelandic and Danish works ; beside which there are a considerable number of volumes in the German
language , and a few in the English and French . The number of manuscripts is very inconsiderable , and they appear to be of little value . The private library of the Lector T / ieotogioe > though smaller , is more select , and contains the works of Mosheim , Hein-
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Comments on Paine * s " Age of Reason ? Part . iii . London , Feb . 21 , 1812 . Sir , I had lately put into my hands , Thomas Paine ' s * ' Age of Reason /'
Pt . iii . —a wretched compilation of falsehood and calumny , the dregs of a genius always coarse . For the publication of it , a book , seller [ Daniel Isaac Ea ^ on , of Ave-Maria Lane ; not I presume the D . Eaton , who is known on
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zius , Reinhard , LqwiIi , Grief * bach , Michaelis , and numerous other authors of minor note ,, on ecclesiastical history and doctrine . It is the best theological collection in the island .
Among the young men educated at this school , there are some who afterwards go to Copenhagen , with the view of prosecuting their studies at the University there ; this advantage being occasionally afforded to the children of those
who hold civil offices , or possess landed property , and to the sons of some of the wealthier among the clergy of the * country . The number of students , however , who enjoy such opportunities is very limited and the remainder tne remainder
: * ooumuea ; ana , oppressed by poverty and the necessities of their situation , are generally compelled to take up their abode for life in solitary spots , where their intercourse even with
each other , is almost wholly suspended , and where any future progress in knowledge can only be effected by their independent and unaided exertions .
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your pages as the historian of the York Baptists : ] is under prosecution by the Attorney * General ; a miserable way of defending Christianity . The copy whictr I have is valuable , on account of some
manuscript comments , by a pen , dipped as I conceive , in the very spirit of the New Testament ; these I now send you for your use , if you shall judge them serviceable to your great object of promoting rational religion .
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146 Cornpients on Paine ' s Age of Reason /*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 146, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/10/
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