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Tendency of certain Errors / ' The errors ivhich are considered , re . late to the unity of God , the Divine character and attributes , and the state of man after death . This sermon bears most marks of h&ste , and has we think the least merit of any in the volume . The author will not surely persist ^ , after reconsideration , in imputing the present ' punishment of the Jews as
a nation , " to the idolatry of their father * " ! p . 277-D . xv . " Christian Zeal Recommended , " from Phil . i . 7 . ( I am set for the defence of the gospel . ' ) waspreachedatthe Annual Assembly of the General Baptists , June 7 , 1808 ; an analysis of it will be found in our Third Volume ,
p . 347 , 348 , The Discourses are shorty as di ¥ doutses intended for the people should be . They grow naturally out of the texts , which we have given on account of their appropriateness .
In . general , Mr . Wright ' s style is plain English , but we occasion - ally meet in the Discourses with Words which seem out of place in village sermons ; such as theology , dereliction , emanative , generate , conservation .
A long list of subscribers shews tlje interest taken by the Unitarian Worl < i ia the discourses of this missionary of their faith ; and we cannot help saying that in justice to
« tem if not to the public , greater < &re should have been taken of the work at press ; it presents to w eye more typographical errors thttn even careless readers can
overlook or candid readers can Pardon , Should the public approbation ^ courage the preacher to wiite ^ d print more of his excellent ex-
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Review *—Almanach Imperial pour I * Annie 1811 . 1515
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Art . III . Almanach Imperial , pour V annee 1811 . Presents A . S . Mm V Empcreur et Roi par Testu ^ A . Paris . Chez Testu et Co * imprimeurs de sa Majeste * . The Imperial Almanack for the year 1811 . Presented to his Majesty the Emperor and King , by TesUu Paris . Sold by Testu and Co , Printers to his Majesty ,
This Almanack , which extendf to S ) 64 < octavo pages , is also the Court Calendar of France , and comprehends a great variety 01 information for Frenchmen .
Perceiving on the second page a recommendation of the work by Marei , the Secretary of State , and that it was prepared and published under the special favour of the
Emperor , we proceeded with the expectation of soon finding some effects of imperial influence . Jus * tice , however , obliges us to confess our disappointment , at least in one particular * The English newspapers have
ascribed to ' * Britain ' s inveterate Foe" the littleness of exacting the suppression of facts , in ancient and modern history , which itngtit be applied unfavourably t £ > ) &M » character or fortune . The rev $ rjM * of this conduct is here sufftciefctJy
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> tempore addresses , we should be glad to see in what form and light he usually sets before his auditors the subjects of death and judg ~ me ? it heaven and hell , which are the favourite topics of popular missionaries , and which have been so extravagantly and mischievously treated as to lead the sober , quiet part of our people to think that a missionary must necessarily be a melancholy fanatic .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 615, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/39/
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