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JUNIUS REDIVIVUS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY.
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The insertion of the following letter , from a popular writer , is due to the interest which it manifests in our concerns ; and opportunity is thereby afforded for a few words of explanation with our subscribers and the public , which we shall append to it by way of comment . We readily avail ourselves of this occasion ; for , not only is there none of that mystery about the conduct of the
Repository which some journals affect ^ but there are certain peculiarities in our position which will , we apprehend , the more they are known , attract to us the kind of support , both from contributors and readers , that we are desirous of obtaining . Fpr a statement of these , an appropriate preface has been furnished by the friendly remarks of our unknown correspondent . To the Editor of Ike Monthly Repository .
Sir , —Several Numbers of the periodical you conduct having lately fallen into my hands , I was as much pleased as surprised to discover that its by-no-means inviting exterior was not a true index to its valuable contents . I had , it is true , heard the work casually named before , but the impression had arisen in my mind—how , I cannot now ascertain—that it was the mouthpiece of a portion of * sour sectarianism
upheld more by dogmas than by reasoning . I did it injustice , and * therefore , beg to make the amende honorable thus publicly . The difference between your periodical and those of your more aristocratic contemporaries , appears to me to be , that your contributors are mostly thinkers , and those of your neighbours , writers—the former , striving to engage the judgment , the latter the imagination . Time out of mind
it has been asserted , that deep thinkers are very commonly slovens ; and the outer garb of the Repository , as well as its inner clothing , would seem to have been selected for the purpose of keeping up the truth of the old saying . You do it an injustice , to let it go thus about the world , like a poor child belonging to nobody , with coarse garments
and an unwaslien countenance . Physical beauty is ever an admirable assistant even to mental perfection , and should by no means be despised . Rowland Hill , when talking of music , was accustomed to say , that he saw no reason for suffering the devil to monopolize , all , the pretty tunes for his own especial use ; and there was sound philo-
Junius Redivivus On The Conduct Of The Monthly Repository.
JUNIUS REDIVIVUS ON THE CONDUCT OF THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY .
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DECEMBER , 1832 .
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MONTHLY REPOSITORY . 1 m NEW SERIES , No . LXXII .
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No . 72 . 3 X "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/1/
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