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pays a tribute of respect to an enlightened and elegant authoress , happily , still living , who might justly share with Watts the praise of having " provided instruction for those who are lisping their first lessons . ' * The titles of Mrs * T ' s principal publications which followed the
Introduction , will point out the important objects of her attention , the first , especially will serve to explain her theological opinions . " Sacred History , selected from the Scriptures , "with Annotations and Rcflec tions , suited to the Comprehension of
Young Minds- " -1782 , &c . In the Preface to this work , which she carried through six successive volumes , Mrs * T , approves the objections to the indiscriminate use of the scriptures , offered by JLocke and Watts in their treatises of
education ; which indiscriminate use is however sanctioned by the English Liturgy . Yet though © ur authoress would not impose upon children the ivhole church she would allow them nothing but the church . " [ tseems tome , ' sh 6 observes ft highly necessary that a book , professedly published for schools , should contain nothing contrary to the doctrines « f
the national religion . ** Mrs . T . hds , in these volumes , recorded her opinions ijpvn two or three questions raised out of the scriptures , and much disputed . She appears to have supposed that Jeptha , the conquering Israelitish chief , designed to express his gratitude to God by offering a human sacrifice , and she even doubts after all that has been written oh
the subject , whether his daughter were not really immolated on the occasion . She advocates the character oiDawdy instead of referring the title , so much dispttted in his case , merely to his divine designation to important "purposies of providence , on which account he might ]> e termed a man after GoiTs oivn hearty as
Cyrus is described as his anointed ^ a soldier 9 but certainly no more a saint than the ting of Israel . In this part of Tier wotk on the Old Testament , a periodical critic observes , that , t # e aumoress " has taken great pains in connecting the sacred and
profane history and has throSvn con * sicferable light dn &oth as Well as oh the prophecies relating to t ! he . rn . ' * Advancing to the N ^ W ^ e ^ tktirent , Mrs . if \ appears every / wtiere a most obedient and act ^ uie ^ cirig Hatigtrter of the chrireh ;©' f £ ffi $ uifiL ^' ^ t W ^^ m on ^ the - ^ o ry btS& rna ^ iV W 'S * ' ^ Mobserjtent of tHe ' cUStom ^ ry e ^ t ^ avaptitfe ' of
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Asiatic , and even of European homag e as to conclude , that " it is reasonable to suppose that the wise men regarded our Saviour as a divine being . " We suspect that this lady had taken her ideas on this point , from those artists who have
adorned the Scripture History , and who represent the infant JesUs as encircled with a glory , to distinguish him from other babes . Surely the glory of nnv Master consisted in something very different , in doing and suffering the will of h itn that sent him .
In the suceedihg years , Mrs . T . diligently employed her pen . She published , " Fabulous- Histories , designed for the Instruction of Children respecting their Treatment of Animals , " a work , the tendency and execution of which has been much commended . This was
followed by c < Exemplary Tales , " and several works of elementary instruction , for children of Sunday and other schools , including - ' A 'Cominentary on Doctor Watte ' s Divine , Son £ s , to illustrate the Doctrines and Precepts to which they refer . " * ' .
In 1 ? 92 , appeared her " Beflectiops on the Education of Children iti Charity Schools . " in the preface to the " Sacred History , * ' in 178 b , the authoress had supposed that there were " passages of scripture beyond the comprehension of children / ' and had remarked the injury
of their being-familiar with words " without having proper ideas aiwiexed to them . " No ^ . t , # however , Mrs . T . asserts , Irbni her own experience , that it " is as practicable to teach children every point of Christian doctrine , as the plainest moral precepts of the Old and New Testament ; " always comprehending in her
notion of Christian dpctrine , the entire system of creeps / and articled , adopted % the church df $ nglartd . This opinion , concerning the pbwefs 6 f infantile / felogktil digestion , Mrs . T . supports by the ittrthority of that distinguished ' ciitaSi-^ ion of fife church , the late Bl&ftp BoVsley-. Ytft ithkt very learned ^ tMe ¦ may ^ ye Be ^ h Msftrndtrrsffodd as to 'the pbirit 6 f teacWi ^ g , for if he detern ^ d that the j > e 6 ^ 1 fe ii ^ ii 6 i ? Wi % to tiowm Hiws but rp ffieif them , he might Jitfie -that f ^ rr ^ liilSrWi iba % o concern iWh r ctck& $ * bik ^ o rcj ^ t -fl&fri . The ^ to-^ e ^ c i ^ K ' 5 ^ e % Ub ^ cd ^ bylt ^ b fiete « n tfrc < % ttecftfisi ¥ i « hd fhe Office for 'JMbHc Ba ^ sJn mf ^ txkk to Whith iti * HSo&ktoh ^ y ff , " % m * m& «»
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" 310 Obituary . — Mrs . Trimmer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/60/
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