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jng you , that a translation of Sfc Paul ' s Epistle to the Romans in th ** Chinese language is arrived in England . The translator is Mr , Morrison * a gentleman who is now resident at Canton , under the auspices of the Missionary Society He studied the Chinese language , before he left England , in which he received some assistance fr 0 m Saai Tak , a native of China , who resided here a few years , and with whom Mr . Morrison went to China , with the purpose of making himself master
of the Chinese language : and from his assiduity , and the respectability of his character , there is every reason to believe , that he % vill be enabled to execute the
plan of his employers to their satisfaction , and introduce with great advantage the study of the scrip , tures into a very extensive and important region of the earth . The great difference that exists between the original language , and that into which it is translated
will occasion many deviations from the readings to which the natives of this country are accustomed . One or two I have already noticed , but hope to have a better account of them when the whole has been
properly collated with the origi nal . I remain , Your constant reader , PHILOXENUS .
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The influence of Christianity on the Female Character . Sir , In the volume of posthumous sermons by the late Rev . J . S .
Buckminster , of Boston , in America , is one , preached before the Boston Female Asylum , in September , 1810- on " the Influence
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of the Gospel upon the Character and Condition of the Female Sex , " From this discourse- —which bears throughout , the stamp of Mr . Buckminster ' s vigorous and ac . complish : dmind—I transcribe the following passage for insertion in the Monthly Repository . If acyqf your readers should be of opinion
that it was somewhat misplaced in . an address from the pulpit , even on ari extraordinary occasion , all , I think , must admire the correct taste and the discriminating judg . ment which it so eminently displays . I aro , $ jr , Youfs ,
J . H . B . " Every favourable conclusion which we have been disposed to form of the * influence of Christianity on the char&etejr o | your sex , is confirmed by , a , suryey of modern Europe . Notwithstaruk ing the progress of vvj ^ at is called refinement in nations , wh ^ revej
religion has be ^ iv Jpaost qpryjupM , woman is yet mQist depraved , and shews a more sensible degradation than our sex / It wo \ ild be easy tq refer you to modern Italy and Spain for ilustrations of this ; but it will be sufficient to confine
ourselves to that country , , when ? the dregs of chivalry seenp . to have settled in Xhe form o / gallantry , after tBe pure spirit of honour hac ^ eva .
porated . In France the female understanding has been as highly cultivated , as in apy p ^ rt of Christendom . There your sex has often dictated the fashions of philosophy and taste , and exercised a sensible
sway over the republic of letters ; and if with this high culture of the female imagination , and this invisible influence and authority in criticism , France had also produced the best female instructors
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080 The Influence of Christianity on the Female Character .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 680, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/20/
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