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    decision rhightr a &e * * h > be correct considering the Dake ^ f Wellington ' s aek ^ w 4 e 4 g&d hstii-breadth escape from a ruinous titefe& f hy the unexpected attaitiitttetit of a * signal victory . ** I cannot takfc leave of your correspOftdfcht WfthoKit giving fall credit to Ws loVe of peace * and joining him in a

    wish for " permanent tranquilHty , ^ a gdod fbi : which we can scarcely Veh * - t& * e $ & tope . " We differ onl y from the different s&p&ets under which we have viewed oUr subject . He apptear * tefrave ittibifoed some portion of the enthusiasm produced by the late hey * day of victory , and can contemplate

    M th « potnp and circumstances of gfo ^ y ktas war , " while I have indulged the idber sddhess produced by beholding the ifconster stripped of the specious h&bit which he wears in the vriasqnefade of civilized , arid especially of fashionable life , and appearing in hativfe deformity , dreary and disgusting . PACI'FICUS .

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    b ^ t from fTid * j- ^ n ^ t a desire to sufeniit to eu ^ eno * wwdom htit a . 4 rav ~ ing afer ^> ppontfri } t ^ t <> ^^ jrt our ^ wr ? creative powers . Far tBUth ^ sp irit ? of irtquity nasy beeh too often refri ^ nted 5 for it k always ^ easier to feel that ^ think , to wondar than to examine * The love of mystery * so far as it ex * - cludcs reason , is a sensual gTa&&eat * oft * though of a noble kiftd ; for it is th ^ absorption of perception in sensation ; the triumph -of the sensitive over the intellectual faculties * Still it must

    t . . . . T . .. - . TJ ¦ . , * In the notes to the last edition of his Poems Mr . Wordsworth has preferred a charge , against Unit ^ riaas , which comes from too high a source to be passed over in silence . - After observing , that the readers 0 $ religions poetry are liable to receive a strong prejudice in favour of an author vrh ^ se serir timefits coincide with theirs , and as

    violent an aversion to one who maintains different opinions , he thtis proceeds : " To these excesses , they , who from their professions , otighf to * h& itiiost guarded against theii ^ ate perhaps the most liable ; 1 mean those sects whose religion being from the calcur lating understanding , is cold and formal . Foe

    when Christianity , the religion of humility , isybunded' Upon the proudest quality of ' our tux tare , -what can be expected but contradictions ? Accordingly believers of this cast are , at one time , contemptuous ; at another , being troubled as they are and must be with inward misgivings , they are jealous and si * s «>

    pieious ;—and , at ajl seasons , they are under temptation to supply , by the heat witt f which they defend their tenets , the animation which is wanting to the constitution of the religion itself . " Here all the misgivings ,

    jealousies , contempts , and contradictions imputed to Unitarians , are traced to the circumstance of their founding a religion of humility on the " calculating under standing , ** " the proudest quality of our nature . " But how can any quality ' of ' out nature be termed proud ? Pride is a distinct quality of itself ,

    and though it may be mingled with others in operation , carmot enter into their aubstance . Besides , reason is a power and nqf a quality ; it may possibly produce prtde ^ but Can no more be proud than sight , hearing or taste . All that can be said of it , even ing or taste , jyh mat can oc saiu 01 » r , even

    uV correct language , is , that it has a tendency io nx ^ ke those proud wfyo take most plett ** sure in its exercise . But is not the imagi * nation liable to the same charge ? Nay , doef if nofc ' lead more naturally to self-admif ^ tioh wiieu it enables its podiessoVs tty . franle

    worlds pf their own , to create t ? ho ^ g Soii « % hey are to reyeH * , to rrise in the khidlirtg nj ^ sty of tlieir bwu couc eptkiiis ? 1 ' ruthg Xylych f ^ tjje ^ bje ^ pf t \ m yewsonac , eai&tn \ i u ^ lep ^ n 4 e ^ tl { ^ , qhii ^ , 4 ^ ^ e ia uniy anxn ious tp fi ^ i said to enjoy it . The maOer Utl « gf the poet ^ re stored withj ^ Wm ^ ejf , an 4

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    from On Poetical S&pti&m . No . II . £ 17

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    On Pottical Scepticism . No . II . * Sf * , PJIHERE 13 no sulyect on T ^ tnch Mi the orthodox believer and tbe poetical sceptic more entirely coincide , than

    that of mystery . It cannot be denied that there is something congeflral to the human mind in the contemplation of objects which it $ ees but m ptsrt ; and this arises from its JxerpetuaMove of action , and its partiality for its own creations . W ^ fren a rq agnificent object Is placed before our ^ f * to full proportions , Jittle more £ left 6 i buttoeafee and admire . But ^ nte'k gteoin ^ is thrown roundT it 3 S 2 , HC conceals it from actual 2 ^ Ti ^^ ^^ Iff Jf Lw ^ vpjut fiithouajand lanta ^ i ^ s oc-r iirrtw . Ik'wCC ~ Ol A MrtOTlft VJTUWtt WllxCn ^ Tffl'ml ^ -wF' ^^^ ^ # f ?? PTO'WMJwft y ^ jwy

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 217, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/29/