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the charms of verse , he "became , as he relates , irrecoverably a poet . Such are the accidents which , sometimes remembered , and perhaps sometimes forgotten , produce that particular designation of mind , and propensity far somte certain science or
employment , which is commonly called genius . The true genius is a mind of large general powers , accidentally determined to some particular direction . Sir Joshua Reynolds , the great painter of the present age , had the first fondness for his art excited by the perusal of Richardson ' s treatise . "
To these instances that of Ruhnken may , I think , be added . This illustrious classical scholar was destined hy his parents for a divine . Being placed , nevertheless , under the care of a schoolmaster who . greatly excelled in a knowledge of the Latin tongue ,
the pupil formed an inextinguishable desire of applying himself principally to the study of the Greek and Roman authors : and his subsequent introduction to Hemsterhuis , decided his choice , and laid the basis of his high attainments and reputation in philology . *
The difference in the effects of an education regarded as similar , may , in part be attributed to some difference in those subordinate principles of conduct which men propose to themselves , and by which they are actually governed .
General principles , undoubtedly , have much value in their place : yet perhaps they exert less influence upon the character than those rules which may be styled a detailed application of such principles . Much of the moral and religious education of the bulk
of mankind , consists , so far as precept i « concerned , in nothing more than the repetition of general maxims ; unattended by the habit of causing them to bear upon real circumstances and individual experience . Consequently , they are often applied at random , in
a vast variety of ways , according to the several feelings , understandings , tastes and caprice of men . Hence the effects of an apparently similar education are represented as different ; while , in truth , the very generality of the instruction communicated , has assisted the diversity . * Vita ,, &c . Auciore D . Wyttenlmchio . sub . in it .
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In the Memoirs of the Life of Op John Jebbf I have met with some admirable specific directions which he laid down for his behaviour , as weQ as rules , not less praise-worth y , fot his conduct in the exercise of the m « - dical profession . He who reads them
will instantly discern the difference between general and subordinate principles : and were such the pre * vailing maxims on which men acted we should no longer have to lament that the varieties of human character exhibit so much of what is mean and vicious and disgusting J . N .
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Sir , Jan . 29 , 1815 . IN your last volume [ ix . 501 . ] a Sonnetteer condoles with Bishop Burgess for having lived " an age too late ; " I have just met with a proof of this in Dr . William Nichols ' s "
Defence of the Church of England , '' published in 17 IS , and to which Mi . Pierce replied . The author , disproving an unjust imputation of Sodnianism" fixed upon his church by Owen , and other very orthodox noaconformists thus concludes :
" And not only our clergy , but the supreme powers of the kingdom give no quarter to Socinianism . Fot while they have indulged other sect « in the free exercise of their religion , they have by an express law forbid
Socinians "to have any ministers , churchesi sacraments , assemblies , w any religious exercises whatever , in their own way / ' P . 175 . If Dr . Nichols correctly stated the legal condition of those nonconfortn * ists who were expressly excepted in
the Act of Toleration , of which there can be no doubt , how flattering wasthe representation of the benefits derived from that Act as described byBurnet , in 1689 , even if We forget , for a moment , the obligation on all nonconformists to subscribe the doctrinal
articles . Calamy , in his additions to Baxter ( i . 455 , ) says , On Nov . 1 ft 1689 , theUev . Bishop of Sarutn pi * an excellent exhortation to peace and union , in a Sermon , preached at » t Lawrence Jewry , on Acts vii- » He adds , « 'tis pity it should . be forgotten . " I cannot help subjoining that , for the credit of the B *? ° r accuracy , and the historian ' s diacr * - t Pa ^ cs 124 , 125 , 1 35—138 .
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214 Intolerance towards the Socinians" in England .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/14/
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