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and eternity . And when time for profound inquiry is wanting , or when , owing to the imperfections of education , the learning of the Jew and Greek is but foolishness , we have no hesitation in recommending as comprising most of what is of essential
consequence , — the aid derivable from the light within the human breast , and the light which shines from the several histories of Jesus , and the history of the first planting of his kingdom in the world . Study yourself , and study the Evangelists , and the hard things of Paul will cease to perplex .
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( Extracted from the Common-place Book of an Invalid . ) ' Garden of France '—Valley of the Loire—Cheerful Industry—Plessis les Tours , Sir Walter Scottfs description o £ —Present State—Louis XI . —Henry IV . —Numerous Landowners—Laws of Succession . Tours is the chief place in the department of the Indre and Loire , which comprehends the whole of that province of France
formerly known by the name of Touraine , and parts of the ancient Orl ^ annais , of Poitou and Anjou . This district of country has been of old called c the Garden of France , ' and appears to be still considered entitled to that flattering appellation * . The city is situated on the banks of the magnificent river Loire , in a rich , flat valley , not two English miles in breadth , through which
also the river Cher takes its separate course . Of this space more than a quarter of a mile is occupied by the beds of the two rivers . The soil of this beautiful valley is exclusively alluvion , in places inclining to be sandy ; but with few exceptions everywhere the deposit of the noble rivers which water its two margins , On the north side of the Loire , and the south side of the Cher ,
immediately opposite Tours , there is but a very narrow strip of land between those rivers respectively and the abrupt , lofty , and broken banks , which seem to say to each of them , * Thus far shalt thou go , but no farther . ' These hills—for the most part calcareous—abound in fossil remains , to an almost unprecedented degree , and to a depth as yet impenetrated , affording to the lover of natural history inexhaustible sources of study and delight f . At Vouvray , on the right , downward , bank of the Loire , and nearly opposite to Montlouis on its left , the valley widens , and a similarly rich strip of flat land occupies about a mile in width ,
? Ina letter dated 1619 , written by the Cardinal Bentivoglio to the Duke de Montel&on , ambassador from Ix > uis XIII . to the court of Spain , he says , Hevenon $ A viile de Tours , a ce pays dtlicieux . C * est vtritablement lui qu ' on pourrait appdcr rArcadic dc la France , exceptc qu'il lui manque un Sannazar FranpaU pour la chanter . Mais , s il ria pas le nom d ? Arcadic , ii a du mom * m 6 rii 6 celui dc Jar din de la France * f Of the astonishing district of shell fossils , called ' les falunieres , ' some description will be attempted .
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On the Study of St . PauFa Epistles . 677 '
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r NOTICES OF FRANCE . —No . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1832, page 677, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1822/page/29/
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