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can enjoy nothing which has not the evidence for its immediate utility stamped upon its front , * The Abbe de Languerne was an extremely learned man , but had not the slightest taste for poetry ; like that geometrician before whom a high eulogium was passed on the tragedy of Iphigenia : such lofty praises excited his curiosity ;
he requested the person to lend him the tragedy , but , having read some scenes , he returned it , saying , ^ For my part , I cannot imagine what you find so beautiful in the work ; it proves ^ nothing . " The Abbe" equally despised the grandeur of Corneille and the elegance of Racine ; he had , he said , banished all the poets from his library *'
That * vices are more frequently habits than passions , ' is a reflection as just in its observation of nature , as benevolent and useful in application . It would be easy to find many equally good things ; and the book is , on the whole , an amusing one , though not of the kind we had been led to expect .
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ATONEMENT ; OR , AT-ONE-MENT .
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608 MirdbeaU ' s Letters , durijig his Residence in Eriglatid .
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To the illustration of this word from its use by Shakspeafg , ( Monthly Repository for August , p . 555 , ) may be added another , furnished by Mr . Rd . Taylor , in Boucher ' s Glossary ; and two more under atone , Acts viu 26 ; and a variety of examples are there given in proof of its real meaning being to reconcile . Thirty years ago , Mr . Chas . Taylor , the learned editor of Calmet's Dictionary , suggested that the original meaning of this word was lost . He observes— I conceive we have lost the true import of this word
., in our language , by our present manner of pronouncing it . When * it was customary to pronounce the word one as own , ( as in the time of our worthy translators , ) then the word atonement was resolvable into its parts at-one-ment 9 or , the means of being at one , i . e . reconciled , united , combined in fellowship . This seems to be precisely its idea , Rom . v . 11 , " being ( to God ) reconciled—or at-one-ed 9 we shall be saved by his ( Christ ' s ) life , by whom we have received the at-one-ment . " or means of reconciliation . Here
it appears , the word atonement does not mean a ransom , price , or purchase paid to the receiver , but a restoration of accordance . Perhaps this is the best idea we can affix to the term expiation or atonement under the Mosaic law . rv . S .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1832, page 608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1820/page/32/
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