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not ignorant merely , but torpid—who discovers after a long and laboured lesson , to his utter despair , that the whole has been rendered incomprehensible by the child ' s having appended a totally different meaning to some one word with which he set out !
We know not the author of the " Hints to Parents , " but they are evidently the productions of a person well informed on the subject of education , and deeply interested in the formation of the Christian character . In execution they are rather desultory and rambling—but valuable lessons may be learnt from them , and a reader who is
really desirous of acquiring a knowledge of the author ' s aim , will find with a little exercise of patience that every lesson , exercise , or hint , however unconnected it may seem , has a bearing upon the same object . One grand good to be derived from examining such a little work as this , is , that it sets parents and teachers immediately to work . Many a
mother , it is to be feared , conceives herself to be in a very satisfactory state , if she is holding herself in readiness to apply her moral and religious principles to the purpose of her child ' s instruction on what she deems fitting occasions . * Now , according to Pestalozzi , she is thus grievously wasting time : the more constantly , vigorously and justly she cultivates the powers of her child in every
* Selon Rousseau , il faut attendre ct guetter le moment favorable pour placer 1 ' instruction , pour inculquer la moralite " —selon Pestalozzi , lc moment est toujours la , ce moment cmbrasse tout la dure ' c dc 1 ' eufancc .
direction , the more she is superseding the necessity for dry , moral instruction ; she is leading her pupils to feel and think aright upon all points ; and while connecting every object , every fact , every discovery with some correspondent emotion of gratitude , faith , and love , to the Supreme Being , she is establishing a habit and laying a foundation which cannot be overthrown .
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Art . VI . —A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London , at the Visitation , in July , 1826 . By William , Lord Bishop of London . 8 vo . pp . 40 . Rivingtons . Episcopal Charges have descended from the stately quarto to the modest octavo ; and this change has been ac-
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compamed by another of greater mo * ment , namely , a lower tone in the assertion of ecclesiastical claims and the condemnation of dissent . The word schism , which used to stand forward in capitals in every page of a bishop ' s address to his clergy , is now rarely used , and never with its ancient offensiveness . It is perceived by our mitred orators
that in the present state of society the Church of England can retain her hold of the people ' s affections solely by reason and charity ; and certainly the use of these instruments of subjection are unspeakably more likely to retain the multitude in quiet submission , than fulminations against spiritual rebellion and woes on the heads of the abettors of
heresy and separation . The Bishop of London ' s Charge has suggested these reflections : it is sensible , temperate , and charitable . The greater part of it is taken up with matters belonging only to the diocesan and his clergy ; on these we have no disposition to remark : but there ate some passages relating to the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Dissenters which
are interesting to the general reader , and which we point out with the more satisfaction because they indicate that improvement in the spirit of episcopal charges to which we have adverted . The Right Rev . Prelate naturally refers to the controversy now in agitation between the Churches of Rome and England . He states fairly the points of difference between the two communions .
He traces the Reformation to the conviction in the mind of the nation " of the uecessity of separating from a communion which required the sacrifice of liberty and truth by the acknowledgment of an usurped power , and the profession of a corrupt faith . " P . 11 . He
accounts for the silence so long maintained on the controversy ; owing to which the people had become indifferent to the question and ignorant of its true grounds , and some were led to imagine that a change had been insensibly wrought in the religion of Rome , and that in fact it had become more humble
in its pretensions and more catholic in its spirit . This conclusion , he says , is now proved to be erroneous , and the Romish Church is avowedly unchangeable and intolerant . For this reason the Bishop calls upon his clergy " to resist an usurpation which would despoil them at once of" their "faith , " their " liberties , " and their " sacred character . " But this , he adds , is not to be done ** by
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1827, page 685, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1800/page/53/
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