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nition of such Eclectics as he who has been figuring away upon your pages , who has no taste but for seed of the growth of Geneva , and who would empty his bushel , rather than suffer it to contain a single kernel of Polish corn . Your Eclectics are not necessarily phi . losophers ; Shakespeare has sketched out in his wonderful manner a company of female Eclectic * , who reviewed all nature , in order to choose ami pick whatever is nauseous and venomous ; I allude to the * Weird Sisters' in Macbeth , who elected and collected the
following ingredients' for theircaldron ;'—» * Toad , that under coldest stone , Days and nights hast thirty-one SweJterM venom sleeping got , Boil thou first i ' the charmed pot ! Fillet of a fenny snake , In the caldron boil and bake : Eye of newt and toe of frog , Wool of bat and tongue of dog , Adder ' s fork and blind-worm ' s , sting , For a charm of powerful trouble , JLike a hell-broth boil and bubble . Scale of dragon , tooth of wolf , Witches * mummy ; maw and gulf Of the ravuVd salt sea-shark ; Root of hemlock : digg'd i ' the dark , Liver of blaspheming Jew ; Gall of goat , and slips of yew , SliverM in the moon * s eclipse
-Double , double toil and trouble ; fire burn ; and caldron , bubble . ' * By a like eclectic process ^ divines gather together all that is rank in prejudice , all that is bitter
in calumny , all ti > at is malignant in passion , and after proper distillation acquire the odium theologicum , the essence of bigotry , a spirit more intoxicating and brtu tifying , than ¦ «¦ ¦¦ the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner . T ^ yp meaning therefo re of the term Eclectic cannot i >© any longer doubtful * It was assumed , we
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are told , by a certain set of physicians among the antients , who culled simples to cure disease ; and from them it is borrowed , doubtless , by our modern reviewers , who collect and decompose new publications in order to get an extract that shall poison heresy . Thus , Sir , you have an idea , in the language of the above-mentioned antient doctors , of the medi ~
etna eclectic a . But to follow our own Eclectic ^ instead of wandering after Eclec * tics , in general , —he complai n * that ( Socinians' have received from the Christian world , a fo r *
bearance and complaisance to which they were ill-entitled , '' and heinstancesin those two ' Socinian * ring-leaders , Lardner and Priestley * The opposite of complaisanceis rudeness , of forbearance . —intolerance ; and certainly Lardner ,
though a ' Socinian / was not insulted , much less imprisoned or expatriated , by his orthodox contemporaries ; perhaps , they could not well spare his learning , or
conveniently forget his services to the cause of Christianity , and hence agreed to cover his nakedness , to veil his abominable heresy * . In this our Eclectic thinks them wrong and laments their
* It is amusing to observe how eagerly Lardner is held up ' to praise as * Christian , by the very mep , that think no abuse too much for him as a '
Socinian . ' We have the same farce played c& with the names of Locke and JWtwtmt who , whenever Christianity is to be defended against unbelievers , arc blazoned forth as illustrious ornament * of the faith , ( as in this vctfy article of the Eclectic
Jfcfcvicw , in the next paragraph but One * to those quoted in the M . Repos . ) but who , thefe is every reason to believe , Were c Sbctniatis * ' that is , in the Eclectic Tcrsion , ' Anti-icripturalisu , Scnii-de ~ ifito .
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l 66 Gogmag 9 g on the c curiousExtract from the 6 Eclectic Review * r
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/30/
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