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the Dublin Workhouse , to-be put up at her expense , in the nursery for foundling children , with . - the following inscription , viz .
" For the benefit of infants protected by this hospital , Lady Arabella Denny presents this clock , to mark , that as children reared by the spoon must have but a
small quantity of food at a time , it must be offered frequently ; for which purpose , this clock strikes every twenty minutes , at which notice , all the infants that are not asleep , must Jbe discreetly fed /'
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No . LXIIL Unitarian Missionaries . Origen in his reply to Celsus , as quoted by Dr . tiirdner , ( Works , vol . ii . p . 497 ^ states the true argument in defence of the Unu tarian Fund , for promoting /
ioimlar preaching . Celsus had reproached the Christians with gathering weak and silly people together , to hear their tales , comparing them to jugglers and mountebanks ; as Unitarian
missionaries are now censured for assem - bling around them the mean and illiterate . cc But / ' says the father , * how unjust is this reproach ! wherein do we resemble
those persons I we , who by readings , and by discourses upon them , excite men to piety toward the God of the universe , and to other virtues of a like excellence ; and
dissuade men from a contempt of the Deity , and from all things contrary to right reason *
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The philosophers would have been glad if they could have gathered together such mean people , to hear discourses recommending the practice of virtue . "
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No . JLXIV . A Heretic . A heretic is an undefined crea * ture in the the theological world . Nobody can tell what he is ^ except that he is a monster . The vulgar have sometimes considered
him as a monster in body as well as in mind . The unhappy creatures who formerly suffered under the savage cruelty of the Inquisition , were disguised and disfigured before they were burnt .
A less hateful elucidation of the remark is furnished by the life of Junius , the famous professor of . divinity , at Leyden . Junius passed for a heretic . He once held a public theological
dispute with a Franciscan , which a great number of people assem bled to hear . An old man , bustling in the crowd s expressed a prodigious desire of seeing . the heretic , which , when Junius was
informed of , he desired might be granted . The crowd made way , the old man marched forward , and diligently surveying him from head to foot , cried , < c Now I know the falsehood of what I
have- been told ! " " Wh ^ t-have you been told ? " said Junius . 4 ( I teas told , replied he , iftqf you had cloven feet f '
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1810, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2402/page/26/
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