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nf )| < ( te&rcl ifY he series of essays p ublished in the Monthly Magazine dhider the title of the inquirer . * While at Norwich , he undertook knd executed the most
laborious , and , perhaps the most important , of his works , the Abridgment of Burcker ' s History of Philosophy . The original work is in six closely printed 4 to volumes , of a thousand £ > ages each , in high
repute attiong the learned for the depth of its researches and the liberality of its spirit ; but its Latin style is involved and pro . fix , and the heaviness that pervades the whole , renders it
rather a work for consultation than direct perusal . Dr . En field ' s abridgment is . a work equally instructive and pleasing ; and it may be pronounced that the tenets of all the leading sects of philosophers were never before displayed with such elegance and
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State of Religion amongst the Modern Greeks . [ Friom " A Journey through Albania , and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia , fo Constantinople , during the years 1809 and 1810 . By J C . Hobhoufee . Cawthorn . 1813 . " ( 4 to . nearly iaoo pp . 5 U 5 s . ) pp . 519—534- ]
The traveller , especially he that has left behind him the enlightened freedom of the English capital , and the decent cereitlohies of the Protestant church , when he beholds ihfe religious system of the Greeks , ntusfbe prompted to
sup-* It might hare been mentioned , that he is understood to have been for many years considerably engaged as a writer for the Monthly Review .
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perspicuity . Here he also commenced , in conjunction with his friend Dr . Aikin , that excellent work , the General Biographical Dictionajy , of which lie lived to see one volume published , and
another nearly ready for publication . But an incurable disease was making unsuspected advances ; and after a week ' s sickness , with his faculties entire to the last , foreseeing the fatal event , and
meeting it with Christian fortitude , he sunk in the arms of his family and friends , and expired without a struggle , Nov . 3 , 1797 , in the 57 th year of his age . It was the essence of his character to be
amiable . He loved mankind , and wished nothing so much as to render them the worthy objects of love . This was the object of all his wrhipgs ; which breathe the very spirit of his gentle and generous mind . V . F .
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pose himself carried back into the darkest ages of ignorance and superslition . There is something sacred in every observance attached to any Christian worship , which ought to preserve it from contempt and ridicule , yet the rites of this church have in them such an air
of absurdity , bird are performed with what we should consider such a want of solemnity , that it is not easy to refrain from smiling during the celebration of the mass . The chief part of the service seems to consist of frequent crossing , performed with the thumb laid on the
two fore-fingers , and Un thousand repetitions of c ; Lord hare merety upon mej" sung through the nosc ^
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^ ttX Religion amongst the Modern Greeks . 433
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 433, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/9/
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