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ous correspondent , would ever have thought it an offence to female modesty to say , that ** the husband of the mother is the father of the son ; ** and my concern for the interest of common sense inclines me to hope , that there are very few besides him , who can perceive any indecorum in supposing that
u Isaiah never intended to say , that an unmarried woman should conceive a son . " But really , Mr . Editor , if this squeamish humour be indulged , there is no saying to what extravagance it may he carried . Should it make farther progress , it may become necessary to have a new edition of the scriptures , in which .
all words and phrases , which such critics as our delicate friend Mr . Marten may deem improper for the female ear must be omitted ; aad at no great distance of timeperhaps , even in common discourse ,, the term childbirth may be universally proscribed fc
as highly indecorous ^ the word marriage may be interdicted as cc violating the privileges of female modesty , " and even the simple appellations father and mother , may be discarded , as suggesting ideas offensive to " delicate feelings ^ * and unfit to be tolerated in good company .
But I am afraid to go on , Mr . Editor , lest I should get into a strain of merriment unsuitable to the gravity of the subject . I therefore conclude with my hearty wishes for the removal of every impediment to the diffusion of Christian knowledge , and the enjoyment of Christian liberty ; to which happy issue , the increasing ; circulation of your truly valuable and impartial
miscellany , will , I trust , eminently contribute . I am , Sir , Your sincere friend , and constant reader London , Nov . 5 , 18 O 7 . W . STURCH .
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Mr . JSelsham ' s Strictures on Carpenter ' s Lectures . 587
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MR . BELSHAM ' s STRICTURES UPON MR . B- CARPENTER * S DEFENCE OF ARIANISM IN HIS LECTURES * LETTER IX . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , It will be allowed by all candid persons who are competent to form a judgment in the case , that in our inquiries into the true meaning of the sacred writers , we cannot be too much upon our guard against imposing upon ourselves by what we call natural interpretations : for as words have no natural connexion with ideas , what we intend by the natural meaning of words is commonly nothing more than the sense which we ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/23/
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