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      don are determined in their mean , ing by the subjects to which they are applied : in none is there a term of itself denoting proper eter-For is trong

      nity . ever" as s an expression as can be conceived ; yet in common parlance and in legal style , it means often a very siiort period .

      " If land be given to a man for ever ^ or to him and his as-$ igns for ever , " ( says Blackstone , Comment , B . II . ch . 7 , vol . ii . p . 107 . 8 vo . 17750 " this vests in him but an estate s / o r life ? I should like to see Mr .

      Marsom s criticism upon this text of law ; and , perhaps , be will con * descend to explain ( to bring in another scrap of law ) by how much , in point of duration , CQ for ever " is exceeded by * for ever and a da A y . " Student of the Inner Temple .

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      On the Book of Wisdom . Carnden Street 9 near Camden Town , July 3 , 1814 . Silt , Concurring as I do , without hesitation , with Mr . Marshall ,

      ( see his letter , page 341 , in Vol . ix . of the Repository ) as to the desirableness of any good elucidation which can be given of the " Book of Wisdom" by your il

      more knowing correspondents /' as that gentleman says , 1 beg leave , in the mean time , to state that there is an article in the appendix to the 73 d volume of the Monthly Review , being a critique on Schcell ' s abridged History of

      Greek Literature , which ( amongst other things ) treats on the Apocryphal Books of Scripiure—and the writer gives a brief account of sach of these , excepting the short

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      Prayer of Manages , From the concluding remarks * however , of the reviewer I , being disposed to place some dependance on his

      judgment , am convinced that a reference to this work will , by no means , fully satisfy any person desirous of the best information

      respecting the ancient writing or treatise in question . On the character and pretensions of IVf-SchoeelPs history , the monthly Reviewer says , * ' These volumes are wholly eclectic ; they contain

      no original matter ; they are de « rived partly by abbreviation , partly by systematic selection , from German works of authority . Like all eclectic books and systems of philosophy , they include incon « r

      sistencies ; and they teach in one page , on the authority of one man , that which in another page they unconsciously undermine or controvert , on the authority of another man . but , if we observe in this author some

      want of that plastic principle which resists incoherence ., we perceive also in him a vast fund of information , and an interesting range of study /'

      Being rather doubtful whether this notice may be worth Che attention of your readers , I most readily resign it to your judgment , and am , Sir , with much esteem ^ Your constant reader , J . S .

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      ii A Rejected Candidate' * for a Dissenting Academy . June 30 tA , 1814 . Sir .

      In the Monthly Magazine for June , 1813 , there was inserted » communication from me , giving an account of my having beea refused admittance , oa the sc « r *

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      i € A Rejected Candidate"for d Dissenting Academy * 465

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/17/