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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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tjrjiere a system of reformation might He adbpted , an <] an experiment Wade Bow fyx punjshnaeht might hecome conducive to its noblest and most legitimate use—the re formation and benefit of tfie ' offender . * But this regitvlatiou , though applauded by
Blackstout-si * and other humane writers , X after having been continued by several ' subsequent acts , § was recently suffered to cxpire . || It appears frour these several modern regulations , that , as observed by Mr , Justice Foster , we liovy consider benefit of clergy , or rather the benefit of the statutes , as a relaxation of U * e rigour of the law , a condescension to
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Kilworthy , near Tauistock , Sir , Jul y 30 , 1816 . AD . the modern l 3 f *> hop of Calcut-Hta ' s , notion of the Greek Article been stated to the ancient Philosophers of Athens , " they would probuhly have inquired— May we know what this new doctrine , whereof thou speakest , is >** Aristotle regarded the Article as a term of no signification in itself , detached from the sentence in which it
occurs . &p $ p 6 v $ s hcrri tycvvyj a , < n /) fA 0 $ , y \ 6 yov ccpxfl v , r reXoz , rj SiopirfAQv $$ \ Qi . C . 20 , De Poetica . In his estimation , the Article served oijy as indicative of a certain abject of sense , or of
intelligence . Apollonius , the grammarian , remarks that some indications are ocular , and some are mental . —vcx . $ / asv rijv o \ peujv slvcu istfcsts * rd $ Sh ra vs De Syntaxi , L . 2 , C . 3 . The primary force of the definite Article consists merely in directing the
eye , or the attention to an object ; and the definitive power assigned to it is xather an effect of the si g ht , where the object is present , or of the mind in dj ^ wing ^ he jaecessary inference , where «¦¦ » — , + 19 Q < o . HI . c . 74 . f . 6 to 27 * t 4 Bla . Com . $ * l , 2 . . ^ See M ^ iit ^ uti ' s Co ) t «^ $ ion of Opinions on the Punishment of Peath ^
? oU 2 . f 24 Oea , IU * U & . c . 6 ^ . « 8 |^ eo 111 . c . 24 . 34 Geo . IH . c 60 . 39 Gco . Ut . c ^ &fi . _ || 25 Mjircfr , - li p ^ ; * % > # * h 4 * 3 . Id . 438 .
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tlie infrrmides of the huntan fra me exemptin g offending individ uals j ^ some cases from the punishment of death * and subjecting them to milder punishment ; atid therefore in the case of cfergyable felonies , we now profess to nieasi \ re- die degree of punishment by die real enormity of the offence , and not as the ignorance
and . superstition of former times su » . gested , by a blind respect for sacred persons or sacred functions , nor b y au absurd distinction between" subject and suhyect originally owing , tb Impudent pretension on one hand , and to mere fanaticism ! on the dther . ^ f
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the object Is preYios * s } V described , or specified , / the Article b only an index ; having , indicated the thing intended ; it does no more : fbns the index of a barometer points to the mercury , but the ' eye ascertains the degree of its elevation , Mr . Tobke , in his
"Diversions of Purley , " s > ays th ^ . t Arti cle is ' * a \ tnere substitute for a particular term " - —to do that wrhich , on the con * tTaiy is done by another principle , namely the eye or the mind . " Sed pulchrum est Digito Monstari , ct dicier , Hie est . " Persius .
It is perhaps worthy of observation , that both . Aristotle and Euclid frequently omit the : Article in their respective definitions as to the subject , and predicate . & « r Se erspyeta , dOavacria , ' r » ro Ss ecrrt i ! u > ij affiw .
Arist . de Coelo , L ; g ; C . 3 * The inscription on * the Altar at Athens , to which the Apostle alfcided in his speech on Marsh ill , was withoat the Article— -AyyuHrrw & $ to' but Paul applies the Article 6 > the name of the Ijeity , which he ann < nmced . Dr . Middleton asserts that the Greek
Article . i $ _ thei pronouiv , rej ^ trrp ° > which , he thinks , has no re ^ pmbiap ^ U ) the definitive Ajticlerr * -th&— in English ; but though it be granted that * was origitkaHy a pronoun , k is no more 7 k pronoun * * ncyw thSAi it its « verb or adjective . Tb Mo ^| h ] iy ^ eyi ^ wer w his book ;/ ha ? iU ^ fefliaiititaiined Ae $ pperiority of the Ef % KsH ov ^ V me G ^ % " jFo ^ Vao ^ ^ .
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448 Mr . Evans on the Greeic Article .
Miscellaneous Communications.
MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1816, page 448, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2455/page/12/
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