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And where is that Eden ?—O ' erwhelnVd by the surge Of blood—' tis a desert of weeping " , No song's are there heard but the tomb-circling dirge' Tis night—and the murder'd are sleeping . See—that Spectre !—O yes ! ' tis a widow who seeks The tenderest son of his mother—She has found him—and hark to the heart-rending shrieks ! He was stabb'd by the hand of a brother .
A tottering maiden , whose beautiful hair By the rough winds of heaven is dishevelled—She looks for her lov'd one—her lov ' d one is there , With the rest of the murder'd ones levell'd . She sinks on his ghastly remains , and her head Hangs o ' er the deep gash on his forehead—And horrid although be the doom of the dead , The doom of the living ' s more horrid .
What a picture of wretchedness , terror , and crime , What confusion , —what chaos benighted ! O weep with me—weep ! that Christ ' s teachings sublime Are so shamefully scofF'd at and slighted ! Weak-hearted one ! Weep ?—No ! the trumpets aloud Are telling a fame-girded story—The banners are flying—the conquering crowd Are shouting the paeans of glory . February 4 , 1832 .
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This is the age of bold inquiry;—freedom from prejudice is fast ceasing to be considered as culpable audacity . The ample page of science is unrolled to the gaze of the people ^ that term being used in its widest sense . Forms and mystifications are falling
into disrepute , and intelligibility is becoming more and more the order of the day . By the Hamiltonian method of teaching languages , the pedagogic mystery is half denuded , and the novice is initiated into the mazes of a foreign tongue by a process , which , as far as circumstances admit , resembles the action of nature in
giving the desired familiarity through the medium of oral communication , —leaving technicalities until their necessity is comprehended , and until their acquirement is facilitated by the previous rapidly-gained and practical knowledge of the language . Something like this simplicity of purpose is exhibited in this pamphlet . The author has no notion of being influenced by the
* The copious title runs as follows : — ' The Trinitarian Investigator ; ora dispassionate Inquiry , addressed to certain public ministers in the Society of Friends , -whether the opinions held by that society respecting the second person of the Trinity , are the peculiar doctrines of Christianity ; or whether they are not inconsistent , contradictory , and derogatory of God ; and the same as held by the Israelites , the Egyptians , and the heathens generally , long prior to Moses . ' By an unlearned Layman . Birmingham : J . Butterworth , and J . Drake . London : Teulon , Whitechapel .
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THE TRINITARIAN INVESTIGATOR * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1832, page 180, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1808/page/36/
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