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casional exception , perhaps , of some daring act of moral delinquency ) must be equally favoura-We to the production of these most salutary effects ; and alike conducive to generate and support under future exigencies , a spirit of in *
dustry and virtuous independence . 1 am , Sir , With sentiments of much esteem , Your constant reader . The Author of Thoughts on Charitable Institutions .
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Mrs . Cappe r s Edition of the Historic Scriptures . October 15 , 1 & 14 . Sir ,
In the fourth Volume of the Athenaeum , * p . 401 , the respected authoress of the Life of Christ , in reply to some inquiries in the pfe * ceding Nuihber of that work , afforded reason to hope , by an
intrniation in her letter , that it would probably form part of her design to extend the plan of her Harmony of the Gospels to a similar illustration of the remaining book of the Historical Scripttttefc of the Nfcw Testament—the Acts of the
Apostles . Several years having elapsed sincfe the publication of this work , without having ever heard whether Mrs . C » ppe has made any progress in such a plan , or ( which I should much regret to team ) has
? It would afford singular gratification to all who Irave lamented the discontinuance of the Athenaeum , to frnd that there was any prospect of its revival . A new , and exclusively literary ,
journal of the liberal and independent character , as well as Select description as to tjie subjects it embraced , which formed the prominent features of that admirably conducted Miscellany , seems at tliio ptfrftdl peculiarly calted fW .
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wholly abandoned the idea ; it would be a subject of particular satisfaction to ascertain whether there is still any probability of the appearance of so desirable a sequel to her work ?
In the event of this , ( if I may be permitted as a sincere though unknown well-wisher to this ex . cellent lady , to intrude a hintupoft her candid attention ) I would take the liberty of suggesting the addition of what is at present a real desideratufti to her work—a co .
pious alphabetical Index both to the general contents , atld to the particular passages illustrated and explained m the notes . I &m , Sir , Yours truly , v . m .
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Arguments for the destruction of the Wicked . Sir ,
Grammarians tel ] us that a substantive is a word that denotes mere being , and an adjective a word that denotes some quality belonging to that being . But though this is
the general definition of the word ^ the meaning of the adjective is sometimes determined by a previotis knowledge of tlie nature of the substantive to which it is prefixed . Thus when we read of the
Everlasting fulls , we do not under * Stand bylhe word everlasting , that they are , strictly speaking , never to have an end ; but that it denotes that they are strong and durable as the foundations upon whict tliey stand : because we beliete that
froin the perishable nature of toe materials of which they are composed , they are designed to * and miist necessarily have ah end . But itt applying thfe adjiective everlasting , td the substantives ,
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674 Arguments for the Destruction of thk Wicked .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 674, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/14/
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