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    Nor shall I attempt to set aside this plea . In some circumstances , und to a certain extent , it is a recommendation of this taste , the proper rank of which , according to the excellent writer who has

    furnished my motto , seems to be between the delights of merely animal life and the love of solid knowledge * When it answers the purpose of drawing off the regards of men from the former and of

    preparing them for more important acquisitions , it ought undoubtedl y ^ to be cultivated and -encouraged . l- Let me , in conclusion , take the liberty of advising that whenever

    young persons shew an inclination to indulge in the pleasures of sense , and to form those low connexions , and engage in those degrading pursuits which may soon

    issue in their ruin , an endeavour be made to give ihem a desire of possessing the better gratifications - -afforded by such productions of human ingenuity as address the taste and imagination . There are

    cases in which this experiment is Likely to be successful : Some in which it has actually produced the effect intended . N .

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    A Rebuke " of Messrs . Bogus and Bennett .

    [ From the Quarterly Review , Oct . 1813 . J Uncharitableness is ihe general fault of history , artd of

    ecclesiastical history most © fall . In Bernino ' s Historia di Tulte VHtresie , there is as regular a machinery as the most approved receipts enjoin far an epic poem ; Satan raises a heresy for him just as he raises a

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    storm ( or Sir Uichar ^ ^ Iaclcmore ; and no doubt JRerajub wrote as He believed , without the slightest intention of deceiving the reader . Even in authors who abstain from

    the language of metaphor and my thology , it is amusing to observe how the founder of a sect is usually described as a monster of iniquity . This want of sense as well as of charity has extended almost to

    our own da ^ s . Count Ztnzendorf and Wesley did not escape such . charges , and Cowper ' s Leuconomus will be recollected by every one . It is a fact , that when

    Priestley was in his worst odour of heresv , a barber who wasshaving him at an inn , happened * during the operation , to discover who the personage was upon whom he was employed ^ on which he threw down his razor and ran

    out of the room ) declaring . that he had seen a cloven foot ! : \ J essrs . Bogue and Bennett , whea they speak of the death of Priestley are not less bigotted than the barber and Jar less excusable . They say

    of him , when he bids his family good night , and speaks of death as a good long sleep , ' we almost fancy ourselves transported to Paris at the era of the infidel and

    revolutionary fury ; for alas Priestley speaks only of sleeping in the grave , and nor , like Paul , of sleeping in Jesus !\ Whatever Priestley might have been , this is a wicked misrepresentation ofih ^ ni these writers know that when he

    spoke of a long sleep , he alluded to his belief in the sleep of the soul till the Tesurrection , a potion not peculiar to him ; a , cd they know that his belief in the jreaurrection was as sincere as their own , founded upon the same premise * ,

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    40 A Rebuke of Messrs . Bogue and Bennett .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/20/