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      Souths $ erm < ms . St . Ardteon i Jan . 1 , 1814 « t Sir ,, I lately added to my smaH library thts volumes of your Reposi tory , w h i c L h a ^ fo u n a i ts vv ay into this corner of the island , where , expecting the close of life ' s

      various «; ay , I hear the tumuk of the distant throng As that of stsis remote or dying storms , And meditate on scenes more silent still . 0 . You must know , Mr . Editor , that the engagements of active life never allowed me a methodic

      cal application to any department < of liteiaturc or science . My reading , at intervals of leisure short , and seized , as it were , by stealth , has thus been

      unconnected , to a degree ^ of which you , whom I gues > s to be a regular student ,. can have , happily for yourself , no conception . Now that grey hairs are more than here and there upon me , it is too

      late to form a new habit . I must , therefore , be satisfied with literary pursuits , miscellaneous and desultory , to the end of the chapter .

      , Remarking your encouragement of correspondents , by impartially executing your editorial office , J am j inclined to send you some account of such discoveries as may be made in an elbow chair . That an , old man should prefer old books will not surprise , and I Confess that my eyos are more accustomed to the sober tints of antiquity than to the mellow hues of modern hot-press . 1 . have lately proposed to improve my occasional acquaintance with South into intimacy , by a regular perusal of his sermons . ;( h » , ftit of Osero * emitted , " The

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      vvays of WIsd ^ B ^ wjtyft of Flea * sacitness / V was recommended U ? our forefatfaer * a century \ ago . fifi the Taller * ,- ( 305 and £ 11 ) a »^

      can scarcely fail to be interesting in centuries ioCorae , for the w ^ t and wisdom of , South as Johnson t > ays of Butler ' s name , can only perish with his language * Yet I i \) ust demur to * the use of tea *

      son nut shewing itself till about the seventh year /* ( ed . 17 37 * i . 9 . ) , as an opinion unsupported by experience or observation * Nor do J know of ar > y scriptural authority for expecting the resur . rection to consist ofthe Hrepa * - ration of ih ^ same numerical body ,

      by a reunion of all the scattered parts . ' ( pi 20 . ) Yo ^ ng ^ a jn # fenile poet in the age of SdtitJi , " So far imbibed this notion as to give the following ilescriptibn in hfs Ci Last Day r'' first publi ^ h ^ dili 1713 , without any design * o burlesque a seriovu subject : ^

      Now enamels rattle ; scattered limbs and all / ; The rarious bones , obsequious to the call , ; . r ^ Self-mov'd advance , % he neck perha | Ki to nieet £ . The distant head , the distant legs r ^ tic ' ¦¦

      feet . ¦ ' - •¦ "'• ' rtIVB Dreadful to view ! see through the dusky sky , , T Fragments of bodies in confusion flyc To distant regions joui neyiug , there to claim ¦>¦ » -. - ^ JDeserteu members , and complete tli * frame . , , „ 4 - ^ Ha vi ng then in trod uc £ < 3 $$ 6 death of Pomp ^ y , the poet acfds ' j ; This severM head and trunk , « hall join once more , Tho * realms now rise between , and oceans roaiv ^ The trumpet ' s sound each vagraftt mote shall Leai ^ .. ; , ,.-v y . Or fixt in earth , or if afloat in air t Obey the tiij ^ n ^ kl ^ Wawd in the wind-. A » d not one $ leepinf atoaa lag behial *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/32/