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    gion , virtue * and liberty . THeir characteristic excellence may be pronounced to consist in energy ; energy of thought and energy of language . We cannot resist the inclination to quote another passage from them , which escaped our recollection in the Review of the former volume ; because it relates to a remisSncss in religious duties , that sadly marks the present day : we mean an attendance on public worship on one part of the Lord ' s day only . " 1 have learned through life , ' * says oi ^ r preacher , «< that there is but one God of Christian worship , that he is q& respecter of persons , that he is the 5 ame God to every rank and condition of life . But I think I have discovered in the practice of these more enlightened days that there are supposed to be two

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    gods of our adoration , adapted to thg varied personages of society ; one ia the morning , the god of the genteeler ranks of life , the other in the after- * noon , of the plainer and humbler classes You understand me , and perhaps may some of you be offended . I ? ut f offend is far from mv intention : I mean

    only with honesty to correct and to improve . In the duty of a profession of which honesty is a principal character , and will be questioned at the last day , much as I fear man , I fear more the God of truth and holiness . The origin of this practice is bad , so bad that I forbear to mention it ; the specious plea

    which many urge m its defence arguea much of self-sufficiency and conceit , and from those , who in religion , have the least claim to self-sufficiency , while it presents a most unseemly picture of social and Christian worship . The great object of such worship is to prepare all for death and futurity , which we well know will pay no regard to the fugitive distinctions that divide us here . *' Pp . 29 , 30 . T \

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    388 Review .- —Poems by John Jackson *

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    * Sec M , Repos . vol . ii . pp . z $ , and 648 , 649 , f Ib . voL ii . p . 38 .

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    Art . II . An Address to Time , with other Poems H . by John Jackson % of Harrop Wood ^ near Macclesjield , Cheshire . Second Edition . With an Appendix , containing various Letters of the Author tQ his Friends . Longman and Co . pp . 78 . Price 2 s . 6 d . boards .

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    A very able critic lias remarked , that every man ' s performances , to be rightly estimated , must be xrompared with his own particular opportunities . The law of criticism , it is true , does not allow an author to plead the disadvan * tages under which he composed his work , as an excuse for its faults ; yet in equity such an appeal ought to be admitted ^ and in a young poet's case it must have peculiar weight . The work before us , as we lea ^ rn from the editor ' s advertisemerit , is offered to the public , u as the promising germ of future excellence , and as a means of procuring , for a virtuous and deserving young man , that pecuniary assistance , which may ena-

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    ble him , in some measure , to cooperate with the wishes and liberality of his patrons and friends , in acquiring the very important advantage of a classical education . * ' The design is undoubtedly laudable , and will , we trust , meet with due encouragement . J 11 Mr . Jackson , our readers will be pleased to recognize an occasional contributor to the poetical department of the Monthly Repository * . His first poetical ef ^ forts we had the pleasure to communicate to the public , accom « - panicd by a letter from Mr . Nightingale , giving some account of the age and circumstances of the young bard of Harrop Wooclf . We therefore refer our readers to those communications , qjad pro *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/36/