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was upon him ;; and with hie jgtiipes we are heaied * V ( Isa . liii . 4 , 5 ) . For by the grtat Sfraoar bearing bur griefs and caarrjing'our 86 rfcows , by his being wounded for our transffressions , ana
bruised for our iniquities , is evidently meant , that in his human 'nature be was pleased to submit , for our sakes , to every species of suffering , of trial , uad of temptation ; and this lor the blessed purpose , that by his stripes
we might be heated , since - ail his sufferings , trial s and temptations , tended to the double effect of subduing the powers of darkness , and of glorifying his humanity , thus of providing the ineaan of oar healing , by removing from us the tyranny of those infernal
powet * , and giving us access , at the -same time , in his glorified or divine humanity , to all the fidness of the Divine presence , mercy and protection , in agreement with his own words , " Ought not Christ to have suffered these things , and to enter into his glory V ( Luke xxiv . 26 . ) J . W . SALMON , President .
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from no higher authority than V Joe Miller . " Of those that are nut taken from , that uotorious wag , s ^ uie appear from their broad features to he his , though borrowed from more respectable authors ; for instance , the tale of the fisherman who sold his fish for
one hundred lashes , in order to take revenge upon a porter who would not let him into the house without a promise of sharing with him in half the produce of the safe ,: and who , consequently , received fifty lashes . ( Pp . 130 , 13 ii . ) This is fram Fuller ' s Worthies ; and is repeated in Sir J . Hawkins ? s edition of WaJton-s
Angler . In one of his * ' Many Things , " Mr . Col ton refers to Mandeville , perhaps for the sake of the following succession of bad and not very decorous
puns , which he has the modesty to put into . a note : "If we were inclined to pun after the manner of Swift on the name of Mandeville , we
might say that Mandeville was a devil of a man , who wrote a book to prove man adevih "—( P . 137 . ) His first antithesis , a double one , ( pp . 7—9 , ) ia evidently made for the sake of bringing in an anecdote , and , as this is one of the best stories . I
shall transcribe it . " We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions , when per * formed by others , than good motives for bad actions when performed by ourselves . I have observed
elsewhere , that no swindler has assumed so many names as self-love , nor is so much ashamed of Ms own ; selflove can gild the most nauseous piU , and can make the grossest venality when tinselled over with the semblance of gratitude , sit easy on the weakest stomach . There is an
anecdote of Sir Robert Walpole , so much to my present purpose , that I cannot refrain from relating it , as I conceive that it Will be considered apposite by all my readers , and may perhaps be new to some . Sir Robert wished to
carry a favourite measure in the House of Commons . None understood better than this minister , two grand secrets of state—ithe great power of principal , and the great weakness of principle . A day or trtro previous to the agitation of the measure alluded to , he chanced upon a icaui ^ y member who sometimes looked to the weight
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Sir , FRIEND has ja&t put into my A hands the second volume of a favourite book of his , 4 i Lacon : or , Many Things in Few Words ; address
ed to those who Think . By the Rev . iC . Gm Col ton , A . M ., late Fellow of King ' s College , Cambridge . ** It must i > e allowed to be an arousing * work ; but I think that this attempt to modernize the quaint , punning style of the century before last , should not
pass without observation . Mr . Colton endeavours to reduce every system to an apophthegm , ev ^ ery opinion to a maxim , every reflection to a joke This way of writing may appear profound to small thinkers , but is in rea ~
Jity the easiest of all modes of discharging one ' s thoughts . It i 3 only setting together clashing images , and returning upon one sentence another with words that clink . It is , in fact , the trick of young writers , or of old writers whose habits never improve .
The worst of this style is , that it tempts a writer to ^ prow an air of ludicrousness around every subject ; smartness presently becomes testing , and jesting ends In story-telling or punning . Some of Mr , Colton ' s aturies are
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/24/
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