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tamorphoses continue to be the almost universal class-book , we should hesitate to accuse a father of illiberal feeling towards the sex , and injustice to his daughter ' s talents , should he
rather choose her to be ignorant of the whole of ancient literature , than expose her pure and healthful mind to such fearful contagion . It is true , a selection might be made of ancient as of modern authors , and thus in time the same improvement effected by
female influence , in the libraries of our schools and colleges , which has already made so beneficial a progress in our literature , in the arts , and in « very place of public resort . Where woman is once admitted , decorum and purity must follow , or the bands of society will burst asunder .
We understand that Dr . Morell is engaged , together with a very accomplished lady , in the education- of young females of fashion , and therefore he is entitled to speak on this subject with the authority of experience as well as of reason . Of his
success as an instructor , we are not qualified to speak , nor would the opinion of anonymous reviewers on such a subject be of much weight , but we recommend his little volume to the serious attention of every one to whom the subject of education is interesting ;
being assured that it will prove no feeble instrument in hastening the happy time , when the fairer part of the creation will be placed in the rank for which nature designed them , and to which they will be hailed by the generous and enlightened of our sex . No more then shall we hear of just and
tasteful remarks losing half their effect , from being conveyed in language , which , from its grammatical inaccuracy , mis-pronunciation or technical blunders , betrayed the defective education of the speaker , or the liberallyinstructed youth blush with shame and indignation when he owns to himself that his amiable sister would be an
unequal wife for any one of his fellowstudents . And then will woman , cultivated , reasoning woman , feel her true value and happiness . In the boaom of her family , in all the dignity of
private life , she will be truly the hel p ^ mate of her husband , the animating soul that urges him on in the path of virtue and patriotism ; that gives ardour to his piety , and tenderness to his benevolence * Careless of admi *
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ration , shunning worldly distin ction and deeming every day a sacred de ' posit more for others' benefit than for her own , she will delight only ia rational society and employment . To be the main spring of order and hap .
piness in her little community , will be fame enough for her 5 she will feel her influence in society while training future useful members of it , and whilst she pours wisdom into the
hearts and light into the minds of her offspring and dependents , she will think not of being the rival of man in power and worldly influence ; her glory is to be the guide to heirs of immortality .
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$ 44 Review . — Parket ^ s Primitive Christianity .
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Art . II . —Primitive Christianity ; or Discourses on Subjects relating to Zeal and Practice , Faith and Hope , delivered at the Unitarian Chapel , in
High Street , Stochport : to which are added . Critical and Explanatory Notes . By Samuel Parker . I 2 rao . pp . 212 . Longman and Co . Johnson and Co . and Eaton . 1813 .
fTPIHESE discourses were delivered , JL as we are informed by the Author in his Preface , at an evening lecture , and are now printed for the following reasons : " partly from an idea , that whilst many persons were not only preaching , but also publishing , in opposition to the lectures of a
much-respected minister of his deno * mination in the vicinity , " [ Mr . Grundy of Manchester , ] it did not become him to be silent , however imperfect his performances . might be , but boldly and publicly to avow , what he considered to be the truth , as it is in
Jesus ; and as many of his own congregation , either from age , distance , or other circumstances , could not conveniently attend the delivery of the discourses , it might not be altogether useless or unpleasant to them to have an opportunity of reading them . These
were the leading motives to publish But these discourses , Mr . Parker hopes , may also " afford gratification and improvement to his distant friends ; or 01
be the means of exciting just views Christianity in the minds of pe rsons unknown to him / ' These motives are certainly commendable . We sincerely wish the volume may produce the «• feet intended by the worthy * rt \ W > and with that view recommend it ™ the perusal of our readers *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/44/
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