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translated , in versions which stood the severe test of the subsequent discovery of complete Greek versions . All the three systems were simultaneously in use among the Egyptians for an ahnost countless series of ages . The main difficulty remaining is to discover and interpret the hieroglyphic images , and this can only be accomplished by a patient comparison , particularly where the truth of the conjecture can be fixed by translations .
Meantime , the discoveries made are of the highest value and interest , if it were only to fix the comparative antiquity of the monuments to which they belong , and to shew to how remote a period the arts , in much the same degree of proficiency , are to be carried back . It is strange enough that at this time of day contemporaneous written evidence should restore personages almost consigned to fabulous history to an actual existence , klen- * tified by monuments erected during their reigns ,
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Sir , Amongst many papers ( mostly fragments ) left by my late venerable aunt , Mrs . Barbauld , are a few discourses written at various periods of her life , and I believe not intended by her for publication , which it was not thought expedient to add to the collection of her finished works lately
published . Nevertheless , as these discourses display in her own glowing and eloquent language the same ardent piety and lofty sentiments that adorn all her other devotional pieces , I have thought that they would prove an acceptable contribution to your liberal Magazine , which she always perused with interest , and to which she was an occasional contributor . I remain , Sir , Your sincere well-wisher C , . R . AIKIN .
Great James Street , Bedford Row , May , 1827 . " Except a man be born again , he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven . *' A strange paradox this , and so it seemed to the person to whom the declaration was addressed , and he answered to the literal sense , with more simplicity than acuteness , " Can a man enter a second time into his mother ' s womb and be born ? " Yet the eastern manner is so full of bold
metaphors , that though a European might naturally have been startled at the seeming uncouthness of the figure , a ruler in Israel ought to have readily understood the spiritual meaning shadowed out under the similitude . The beginning of a Christian ' s life in his conversion from sin to holiness is here designed under the figure of a birth , a new or a second birth ; and it shall be the business of this discourse to unfold the beauty and justness of the metaphor .
That the whole man is not born at once , is a doctrine of philosophy no less than of religion : the infant has only entered upon an animal life ; whatever lofty titles we may salute him with on his entrance upon the stage , he is not yet a moral agent or even a rational creature . There is , therefore , some subsequent period in which he enters upon the spiritual , the divine life , and whether it be by the gradual unfolding of his powers , or by
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Discourse by Mrs ,. Barbauld . 4 / 7
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ON BEING BORN AGAIN : A DISCOURSE BY THE LATE MRS . BARBAULD . To the Editor .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 477, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/5/
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