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nothing is more gratifying than to see the frugal board surrounded by orderly children , and the selfdenying parents setting , them . an example of disinterested moderation . These instances arc to be
found , butjonly among those who have early contracted such a taste for decency and good order as the necessities and privations of poverty cannot overcome . Every
hint from so excellent a judge both of the moral and physical wants of the poor , as Mrs * Cappe should be carefully attended to ; but I agree still farther with your correspondent N . that both day . schools and asylums for poor
children , where they are wholly provided for , have their respective uses , and should therefore both be supported instead of being suffered to fall into decay . May they each contribute to that general amelioration of the most
numerous class of human beings , -without which our boasted progress in arts , sciences , wealth or glory , is but a vain show ' in the eye of Him u sees with equal eye as God of all , A hero perish or a sparrow fall . " S .
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On Personality * Kiluwrthy , July , I 8 l 4 v Sir , An edition of Locke ' s Essay concerning Human Understanding , published in 1793 , contains
a short Appendix , annexed to a defence of his opinion concerning personal identity . The author of that Appendix imagines that Locke ' s definition of the term , person , would have been more just , had he said that the " word person stands for an attribute , or
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quality , or character of a thinking intelligent being . " Cicero , de Oratore , use the term in this sense as it denotes character , or capacity . < c Sustinto unus tres personas , meara , adversarii , judicis / Hence the same individual mav
sustain many persons , or characters , according to the divers capacities in which he acts . Person has been metaphorically used for homo gerens persoirun . " It may
be observed that the word , personality , is really an-absurd expression : since person itself stands for the mixed mode , or quality ; — and personality therefore may be ranked among iht old scholastic terms of corporeity , egoity , tableity , &c- or is even yet more haihh j as mixed modes , . such as
gratitude , murder , and therefore person cannot thus be re-modified without peculiar absurdity *' Aulus Gellius , in his Attic Nights , derives persona from per * sonando , as the mask worn by the actors in the theatre served to
render the voice more sonorous , and audible . It is obvious that the controversy , regarding the Trinity , turns in a great measure on the signification of the word person , as it is applied to the Divine Nature . In the standard of Trinitarian orthodoxy Christ is
said to be < c One altogether ; not by confusion of substance ; but by unity of person / ' * If the Divine Nature be one .
and undivided in substance , but distinguished by variety in person , it follows , that one God may support different personal characters , or attributes , as Creator , Preserver , Benefactor , without diverging into three distinct beings , * Athanasiu& ' s Creed ,
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< J 88 On Personality .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 688, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/28/
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