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ably on in illustration of his positions , that ' education is too long deferred;—you have slumbered and slept while you should have been up and doing . The tender mother should be most assiduously watching * for the first dawning of her infant ' s intellect to give its expanding
powers a proper inclination to virtue's side ; for in this stage of our existence we are entirely passive , and receive , with equal avidity , every species of impression ;—that the education of the young is of too worldly a character;—earth , not heaven , is the principal care with parents ; and as far as education is of a religious character , it abounds
in mysteries and delusions , while it is the simplest truths , and these , if possible , not in an abstract or didactic form , but embodied and animated in the moral and attractive tale , which should be first presented to the young opening mind . And that , in the last place , the evil example of the mature and old tends to counteract whatever is good in the education of the young , and thus helps to spread and perpetuate irreligion in the world . '
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Filzgeorge ; a Novel . 3 vols . Wilson . We are not partial to novels which , under a slight veil , intended to be transparent , describe recent events and characters . No such recommendations can be urged for the practice as apply to the occasional introduction of historical personages into fiction ; nor has [ it even the apologies which may be made for such amusing and satirical transformations as Mr . Bulwer has given a specimen of , in his Paul Clifford ,
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The Messiah , a Poem in Six Books . By Robert Montgomery . This poem is very like Mr . Robert Montgomery ' s other poems , and will neither disappoint his admirers nor convert his critics . It is all words , words , words ! ' There is the same conventional phraseology and turgidity as before , and the same absence of touching sentiment and pictorial beauty . The author is singularly unhappy in his use of scripture language , which he continually adds to , or twists about , so as
to mar its simplicity . Nor do the facts of scripture fare better , disfigured as they are by an interlined commentary of orthodox theology . ' The Temptation , ' for instance , is almost a travesty . We have a God and a demon confronting each other in all the pomp of their super * natural forms and attributes , and ascending into the air only to exchange a plain sentence or two of quotation . Expressions are con * tinually occurring which never ought to be written , either in poetry or prose ; and which never would be , were not fanaticism too strong , not
only for poetic taste but for common sense . It is not sublimity but absurdity that is introduced into the history of Christ by his deification . What but disgust can be excited by making * a man pronounce a verdict on a God ; ' or attempting to put him to a shame ' beyond the brightness of a God to bear ; ' or by there being a supposed possibility that * to atoms they had hurled the Saviour-God ?* Nor are the author ' s incongruities confined to his theology . What can we say of such a figure as the following ?—* Moonlight ' s wizard band Throws beauty , like a spectre-light , on all . '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1832, page 502, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1816/page/70/
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