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    Art . I . —Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice : and on the principal Arguments advanced , and the Mode of

    Reasoning employed , by the Opponents of those Doctrines as held by the Established Chuch : with an Ap » pendix * containing some Strictures on Mr . Belsham ' s account of the Unitarian Scheme , in his Review of Mr . Wilherforce ' s

    Treatise . By William Magee , 1 > . t ) . Senior Fellow of Trinity College , and Professor of Ma . thematics in the University of Dublin . The 3 d Edition , with Additions . 4 Vols . 8 « o . Vol . I . pp . 488 . Vol . II , pp . « 4 « . London : Printed for Cad ell and

    © avies . r' - ' ¦ When the present age is spoken of as learned and enlightened , the

    eujogijtim must be received with moderations * The country ai ^ d the ticnjes in Which our lot is cast , are distinguished rather by diffulion than by accuracy and depth Of knowledge . It is true ,

    tocom-| wre the attainments of our con * temporaries with those of their predecessors , is always a difficult gttd even invidious undertaking . 3 U * pici 0 n usually , and sometimes Jpj ( j attaches to the motives of tlifc person who engages in this employment : if he deqide for the

    pretensions of a j > ast generation , « e > < Je « med inequitable \ o living ' ^ % hMj ^*! 0 ^ }^ not to Hy ,

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    Ingemis nxm illefatret , plaudiCgz ^ e $ epulfis % Nostra sed impugnat ; nos nostrafue livi ~ dies odit . Yet , disclaiming all such viettfs * and endeavouring to hold the ba * lance of criticism with a steady and impartial hand , we humbly ffe

    or it as our opinion , that if it this day there be more men pf science , taste and literature than there were among our immediate or not very distant ancestors , still individuals formerly existed to whose various and solid eruditioti ,

    the result of comprehensive powers and patient industryy no parallels can now be seen . * Where areftfflp our New tons and our Lockes , our Hales , our Bentleys ^ our Meads , our farrows and our Light foots }

    There was once a period , and tkat not exceedingly remote , when tbe labours of Clarke and Hoadl y , of Sykes and Jortin , Hallet aqd Chandler , of Lardner and Farrier recommended the study of theolpgy ? Hojv is the scene changed I How inferior , generally speaking , the value of modern publications in divinity , of the compilations and crudities which are substituted

    for performances of original learning , unaffected moderation and indlefatigable research ! These observations are irresjstu b } y <} ictate < l by the volumes on a review of which We are about % o enter . We have been informed

    ? CEirum sorbiti iutniisf quo pl « ae inOoctU mb £ l turpius , p ^ pd dic W fl ^ il » riu 9 . Pr « uwm .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 417, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/33/