Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), February 1818, Edition 1 of 1, Page 127

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  sian * from as » aciation& with fdrmer idea » and ; impressions , and that virtue may be thus generated by custom and habit ; I am inclined to think tliat this was in his head -when he \^ foteinaCt letter ' | patticiilaHy as Tftatie hetitdfroVft himself that the intention of wHtfatg a book upon the nature of
  
  man , tvas conceived in his mVnd' when he wa&a v&ry- UtM& boy . He was not a boasting-man , nor eve * spoke an untruthr ; but in many conversations that ! have had with him about his hook % he k # s told me that when he was so little as to be ) swinging backwards and forwards upon a gate ( and ,
  
  I should suppose , not above nine or ten years old , ) he was meditating upon the nature of his own mind ; ^ wishing to jtnd out how man was mdde ; to t&hat purpose mtdjwr what future end ; inshorty ( jtfs he aflerTvards entitled his boob , } * The Frame , the Duty , and the Expectation of Man . " Pjtf . 9 % 03 ;
  
  Ml * s » Hartley then makes some just and poiafed ofeservationa upon vindictive and eternal punishment , as destructive of the love of both God and man * and proceeds to shew the happy iteoral effects of the contrary doctrirt ^ of the divine ch astisements
  
  teemg tamedmY and ending jti frappipess : 44 These hopes console tbe dejected tnind ; they disperse ( a * roy father says ) all gloomy and superstitious thoughts ; they teach a man to be indifierent to this world , yet to enjoy it more from a confidence in that
  
  Being , c whose nae # cy is over all his works ; they teach & man to love every other man , and to bejieve that , however injurious or criminal he may now be , God loves , though he cannot approve him ; that though he punish him it shall be in mercy , to make him perfect ; and that .
  
  though a mail 1 may be our enemy now , the time will come , when he shall be our friend and bur brother . This wa » my father ' s doctrine , when I kn « w him , as you see it was before 1 tva » born ; and to ttee opinion , as well as to the kiiadness of his temper and the virtues of his mind ,
  
  I attribute that disposition which made hint ilever converse with afetlow * -creature % Withoutfke \ lifig a wish to do him good . ^ I ' have coriVei'sed a good deal , since I lived h « re , with a very claver # Ii | lady , who vrw fomerfy a gte&t friend of toy father and miftlten Htev bairfents wete wko
  
  IWiob refugee ^ escaped from th « ^ er » # outio n of ioTii # XIV . She was Vroy ^ hl Mf in theieveFitjy oftheCfiW ^ wtical tenets ; but by some accident , when she was a girl , she met with Petitpierre sur la Monte dc JDteu ( Petitptert * oil tfce Gwdwm *** ® bd ) i aad she rail io ^ lN ^ goveril « s # sk ^^ g- rtfld fumpi ^^ m Qtying Ml * * ith jttomfr m ' ,
  
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  < Ah ! Madara ^ fc ^ W % < fo * t ? - IHH ^ r > vern < 68 S answered nith foi 1 a » al tjTnv | fy * Wdfif cfciW ^ did H 0 & y ^ u atwa ^ s lore bittJ- ^ f ^ j d ipde ^ j BfednroV ausw ^ red the child ^ < I never did-:. tigl- ***> . '" Fp& 8 ^ d 6 i
  
  Dr . H ^ rtleys tyro Letters which are next giveiiV Aave been printed b e fore ; tfeey will be fouad in i ^ if work * V . 55— -57 y * they arcs ^ serious aad suited to his character , but appear to want liveliness compared to his
  
  daughter ' s . This may be also said of another Letter of his in the collection , which is also introduced by one © f Bfrau M . ffartl ^ y ^ s that rotates flirther particulars ; cjoncerjriing hiw . The Doctors third Letter ik " "to his sdttL
  
  Pavid Hartley , Esq . * on life setting out on his ' tra ^ elsr 17 $ 5 ., It e ^ fiifeit ^ some curious notions , with regard to " the reaV efficacy of prayer" Th $ most striking part af it is the advice that follows , which is worthy of ihe attention of young pef «^ n » :
  
  " Remember what Sydenham s ^ ys ^ thpf he was always the worse for his acqxtai& mice with had men , though they did , him no direct injury * In Hfce maiin ^ , W * v& all books which have either dirept or indirect tendency to corrupt your mind / ' Uc . P . 110 ,
  
  Mrs . Hartley describes a Hiostpfea ^ ing trait in her fatrier ^ < ihar ^ c * e ^> relative to the family of her tti 6 ffter , « ' the daughter of Rob ^ t Parfeifei ; member foi ? Berkshire , * ' thie tJoctbr *^ second wife , who u yfere against tli e match , " and " treated ftiin always with hauteur :
  
  u My uncles were men of tfye wai ? W S » d men of pleasure . They knew not my father ' s value ; and were eren offended with him for the true Madness he frttewetf tlx > m , in giving tnera j ^ ood advide * TbAf drank hard , which you know wap * ri mcik
  
  . ( - i s , - ¦ y . . ¦ , -., i i ' . '¦ , ' - - : i . . . ¦ ¦ - i J r i i * r ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ , f « . * ' In our copy of the first letter . 's . tto foffowing tentencd , p . 50 , col : I , toward the bottom : "It you forgivv alt mwtftnl be in charity , lie thankful and fcumfcle to God , rtnd finch like , yoat ^ koH pr » yt ^ rs ^ lirf
  
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- Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/47/

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