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REVIEW. ** SrtiU pleased to .praise^ yet not afraid to blame ."—-PopBi .
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Ar * v I . —Memoirs of the Life of the \ late Jffps . Catharine Cappe . Written bjr Heraelf . 8 ? o . pp . 484 . Long-- m&tt&Gcv 1822 . r THE late Mrs . Cappe was well JL known to our readers by her
frequjent . interesting communications to this magazine , and the principal events of her life are fana iliac to them , being in some measure disclosed in her lively description of the critical scene * of the lives of Mr . and Mrs . Iandseyv ( III ;
637 and VJI . JQ 9 , y and more fully and methodically related in the biographical sketch of her , ( XVI ^ 494—496 , ) drawn up by a valuable correspondent soon after her decease . It i& not our intention , therefore , no follow her Memoirs , step by step , but merely to select a few extracts * and to make
now and then a remark suggested by the subject . * The qualifications for writing one ' s own life are self-knowledge , the result of self-examination and Watchfulness ; courage to expose one ' s own secret motives and failings ; and such a degree of imagination as shall suffice to connect oneself intimately With ,
persons , places and passing events . These endowments Will appear to advantage in proportion to the number and importance of what are called incidents in the life described . Elegance of style is the onl y thing further wanted
last property Mrs . Capjte ' s Memoirs can be scarify said to possess , but they are vrtS ^ m . With a simplicity ai ^ d candoiyr wbi ^ n are fte ^ r-akiti * o . elegance , and which operate upon the mind of the reader as an ^ indescribable charm- In tfce earlier chapters , at least * the history is foiil of variety *
Ihe lfnaginaUoUof the writer is seeu in combining events and ntorkinfg them into agreeable Btoriesi vThere is ^ no concealment of any Feelifcg < or »« te&ign . And th £ > itf * iysis bf U < $ * Untiinmtifw alnid ^ t £ irriiV litipprtatit O ^ ckpiH ^ fe bf Vl < W ) : jU > « tt » 4 fc , U Mb * itw « . i *^« WXi ^ i ' rli-rJU ^ WJl '
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was a practical disciple of Christ , and eminently pious and devotional ; I » her Memoirs , she recurs perpetually to the agenfey of the Divine Providett < j £ , and if % ve should concede to a s ^ tee * - what stern critic in a receptly put * iiished number of a respectable periodical work , ( The Inquirer , ) that her religious feelings are sometimes obtruded
upon trivial occasions , we must yet , knowing as we do her sincerity ^ nd guilelessness , contend that hen habit of turning every event to a moral and spiritual account was the natural r ( esult of her strong and lively faith in the universal and perpetual government of the
Almighty . In one respect , the excess ( if such it must be reckoned ) of her religious phraseology is a great advantage ) as it proves that no error can be greater or more unjust to the persons to whom it refers * than the popular one of the incompatibility of a rational , creed with * warm devotipnai
sentiments . Nay ,, in this instance , we se © there ligion of the h ^ eart in exerc is e , not in spite of the Unitarian ; faith , but in consequence of it ; and we cannot but reckon this volume , remote as it
is from the spirit and style and fdxm of controversy , as directly calculated to subdue prejudice , to avyaken inquiry , and fev ^ nlually to mak e proselytes tq the faith of the writer .
Mrs . Cappe was the daughter of the Rev . Jeremiah-jtlarrison , and was born on t ^ ie 3 rd of June > O . S . 1744 , at Long Preston , in Craven , Yorkshire , the livinff of which her father held ,
together with that of Skiptou , in the neighbourhood ; both having been prfe-Ben ted to him by the Cbllege of Christ Church , Oxford , in which pe had bfc&n educated . She thus deriprifres the district ; in whicfy was the place of her time
nativity : , : j ; , : ** This ^ act of Yovk ^ ii ^; at the * of which I am speaking , wa » insulated from the fest * Jto £ ^ tbe kingdom ^ nat bc ^
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Review. ** Srtiu Pleased To .Praise^ Yet Not Afraid To Blame ."—-Popbi .
REVIEW . ** SrtiU pleased to . praise ^ yet not afraid to blame . "— -PopBi .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/35/
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