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of bis intended discourses on insp iration , upon their appearance from the press . With pleasure and . gratftnde we anticipate the wider diffusion of accurate theological knowledge , by means of his lectures on the evidences , doctrines and institutions of religion . Will those of our readers who attend upon them permit us to suggest that something beyond mere attendance is requisite , if they wish to do justice to these instructions ? Proper books must be perused , and reflection and thought must be seriousl y exercised . Without these , lectures may make them conceited , but will never make them wise . t
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The Wants of the People . 3 . 8 . 7
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The style of onr author is , in general , easy , perspicuous , flow- ^ * - ing and energetic ; and this in a degree that will give him some claim to distinction even as a writer . But it is occasionallydisfigured by learned words ( e . gm . generate , meliorate , ) and by long or by ill . divided sentences ; and it would probably gain in correctness and precision , . without , losing ia elegance , by more of the limee labor . After all , its faults are tri * vial , its excellences , solid ; nor should we have deemed it an advantage to point out what we consider its blemishes had the writer been of inferior merit .
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Art . III . —The Wants of the People * and the Means of the Government ; or Objections to the Interference of the Legislature in the affairs of the Poor , as recommended by Mr . Wkitbread in the House of Commons , on Thursday , Feb . 19 , 1807 . By John Bone . 8 vo , pp . 105 . 3 s . Jordan and Maxwell . 1 S 07 .
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The condition of $ he English poor is confessedly bad : this is an able and spirited attempt to shew that the only tiling which parliament can da for their relief is to repeal all pa , st acts of interference and to let them alone for the future .
Mr . Bone is , in his leading principles , a disciple of Dr . Adam Smith ; and his speculations evince inufih of the sagacity and judgment , much of the power of generalization blended with faithful attention to detail , -which characterized that eminent master of Political Economy . In this and former publications Mr . B . contends for the inexpediency and penuciousness of the
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Poor Laws . He here terms the Pauper System c £ a Bill of Indictment against the whole people and their posterity /' 44 It will be recollected that the Thirty-nine Articles and the Pau - per system were cast in the same mould ; and Let every reasonable being ask . himself , whether the sovereigns , the lords , the bishops > orthe senators , who were anxious
to prove that God had made the majority of his creatures for the sole purpose of consigning them , to endless damnation , vrojild be peculiarly solicitous about finding the best means of saving them from temporal starvation . " p . 52 . Our author dares to take the field against a philosopher , strong
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/47/
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