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the understandings of his pupils by easy gradatioivs through the fundamental rules of arithtnfitic , conducting them by continual practice , yet witii little appearance of drudgery , through the elements of spelling and reading to propriety of pronunciation , and by the like particular attention to , and continual exercise in writing , facilitating in a degree certainly uncommon , their progress in this art . His disposition estranged from severity , and characterized by mildness and feelings appears in all his conduct towards them , and while they experience nothing like severity of
treatment , they are constantly accustomed in the hours of business to a regular and silent series of application . It ought to be mentioned as reflecting credit on our Unitarian and Baptist friends at Dover , that no exertion has been wanting on their part to
support him in his undertaking " , and to assist him in maintaining his numerous family $ in which they have received the concurrence , by occasional contributions , of friends at Maidstone and Battle in the course of
the present year . But while no man oaii feel a deeper sense of gratitude to ** those worthies / ' as he expresses it , * ' whose benevolence has saved him and his family from the jaws of destruction , " yet none can be more desirous of at once rendering himself
independent , and in some degree making a return for their kindness , by a faithful discharge of his duty as the conductor of a boarding-school . J * If my friends , " says he , " entrust me with the care of their young gentlemen , I will exert every nerve to forward them in their education , and
pay every attention to their morals and comforts of every kind . It would , " he adds , " be most preposterous to imagine that there exists no prejudice against a Unitarian schoolmaster , 1 am certain I shall never get a school without the strong arm of union from my friends . THOMAS PINE . frfci .
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Improved Version to Act * xx . & £ » I am sorry to be obliged to spoil the jokes of your Correspondent B * { p . 381 , ] upon my unfortunate name ; but I think I shall be able to shew , tlmt
a little attention to the subject would have enabled him to find out my meaning , as well as Birch ' s and Gries bach ' s , amidst the mist which either he or I ( your readers must say which ) have thrown around
it-It would , perhaps , be quite sufficient for all reasonable persons , thai ; I should begin and finish with the simple matter of fact , which I stated in my far # rier letter , as the result of actual examination , that the Vatican reading was © es ; considering al $ o that Griesba ^ h so understood Birch *
as is proved by his having , in his las * edition , affixed a mark of probability to that reading which was wanting in the former editions , but this , which one would suppose \ vas the only thing worth inquiring into , seems totally disregarded by B * , who means to be perfectly content if he can make out from Birch ' s recollections and
negative inferences , that as far as he could remember , the reading was not < 3 te »* This mode of treating the matter , setting aside the jcourtesy of it * puts one in mind of the person who took in hand , bv the most conclusive
reasoning , to convince his neighbour , who had unfortunately got into the stocks , that no one could possibly have committed such an outrage upon his person . The only reply that the su £
ferer thought necessary to make to this Samaritan was , " But they have done it ; " and in like manner to B / s reasoning , from which he comes to the satisfactory conclusion , that the Vatican cannot be Ose , I must
answer , ' * But it unfortunately is so . *' The truth , however , is , that B . is altogether mistaken in his understand * ing of the several notx * s and references in question , which , 1 before obserwedi
cannot boast a very lucid arrangement in the London edition . It must appear odd to B ., if his reading be correct , that Gjriesbacb , with Birch before him , should state an affirmative
for the mere purpose of adding * p& gative ia a note , and vet such would be the case if B . is right-There is * in fact , no r « al retraction either by Griesbach or Birch ,. of the statement that tbe Vatican * e * W «
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Reply to B * s Defence pf the Note ef the Improved Version on Arts xk > && 447
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Sir , Jnne 7 f 1818 . BREVI S € »» e lahoro , obscmrus&o , ! has been often said or sung , and I hope will be received e » an excuse for amy ^ obscurity whkh mny fairly be nnfmtatble to my former < 3 ^ mmanica ^ oo , ( & a » l # ] oa tbe ante of th
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1818, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2478/page/39/
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