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agency of destruction , the better work of renovation , exerting 6 ur selves to create or to diffuse a correct taste in literature an < J . art ,- — - a spirit of freedom in politics , and of rationality in religion , — and in all things , so far as we can , to accelerate the improvement and multiply the enjoyments of our fellow-creatures . Ed .
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When we consider the great acquirements of Reinhard , andthe active duties in which he was incessantly engaged , we are astonished how he could find time to write so much ; and that , in addition to a great number of disquisitions in Latin on various
topics of ancient literature and criticism , which were collected , in two volumes , under the title of Opuscula Academica—to commentaries in Latin , on Genesis , Isaiah , and the Psalms , and on some parts of Plato ' s writings—and to the great work which occupied , in its successive editions , a very large portion of his time—his System of Christian Morality—he should have left behind him not less than thirty-nine volumes of sermons , which form , as it has been well observed , a kind of religions library , and
may be considered as the development of the fundamental principles communicated in his work on morality . For the greater part of his life he preached every Sunday ; every sermon was composed a week in advance , and committed to memory previous to its delivery . To effect all this , he was , as may well be conceived , a most rigid economist of his time . Boettiger gives us an . account of the mode in which his day was distributed during his residence at Dresden .
* He rose , summer and winter , at six o ' clock ; and employed the first hour , from Monday morning , in learning off the sermon which he was to deliver the following Sunday , and which he had composed during the preceding week . Whilst he dressed he went over in his mind what he had already committed to memory . After this , he read some portion of the Scripture in the original , and frequently added to this a prayer . His favourite books in the Old Testament were the Psalms and the prophet Isaiah . The ensuing hours were devoted to the different duties
of his office—to meditation , composition , reading over the papers of the Ecclesiastical Council and of the Upper Consistory , of which he * was a member , and thrice during the week to assisting at these tiyo councils . He usually composed his sermons on the mornings of the three last days of the week , on which there was no sitting of the Councils . The last hour of the morning of the two first day « in the week was set apart for those who wished to confer with hiai . During his pinner , which was never long , he hastily read the gazettes . After dinner , twice in the week he ran over the journals , and on 6 th ? r days usually read something historical . He distinguished between the books
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ON THE STUDIES AND PUBLIC MINISTRY OF F . V . REINHARD . Art . II .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1832, page 797, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1826/page/5/
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