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and value <<* & an ^ argunaent , rather tfa ^ an ¦ jo its justice wits truth . Sir Robert took him aside ; ^ and rather unceremoniously put a thousand-pound banknote into his hand , saying , 'I must have your vote and influence oa such a day . * Our Aristides from the country thus replied : Sir Robert , you have shewn yourself ray friend on many occasions , and on points where both
my honour and my interest were nearly and dearly , concerned ; I am also informed that * it was owing * to your good offices , that my wife lately me , t with so distinguished and nattering a reception 'at Court . I should think myself therefore , ' continued he ,
putting , however , the note very carefully into his own pocket , 'I should think myself , Sir Robert , a perfect monster of ingratitude , if on this occasion I refused you nw vote and influence . * They , parted : Sir Robert not a little surprised at having discovered a new page in the volume of man ,, an 4 the
other scarcely more pleased with , the valuable reasoning of Sir Robert , than with his ovra specious rhetoric , wMch had so suddenly metamorphosed an act of the foulest corruption , into one of the sincerest gratitude /'
Although he is a clei ^ gyman , and , I take for granted , a parish-priest , the author cannot forbear jokin g even upon the doctrines of the Church . His diocesan should look to his soundness in the doctrine of the Trinity , upon which he thus epigrammatizes
in prose , in order to introduce a former epigram of his in verse ( pp . 69 , 70 ) : your correspondent Dr . Carpenter roust excuse the quotation , though it places him ia . bad company , and is palpably unjust to his share of the controversy referred to . c
We injure mysteries , which are matters of faith * by ? any attempt at explanation , in e > rder to make them matters of reason . Could they be explained , they would cease to be mysteries ; and it has beef * well said , that a thing is not necessajrily against reason , because it happens to be above lt Dr . R ¦ - * onra , told HnrnA
" This anecdote is rather against the doctor , for tto wit is Parson Home's , out the p rofanepess is the Doctor ^ ;• perf ^ . « H » ttell not wholly escape fak ' elating It . " . , ... .. .
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Tookp that he had just witnessed an exemplification of the Trinity ; for he had seen thtee men in one whiskey ! c , poh ! ' replied our etyotologist , ' that is no exemplification at all ; you should have seen one man in three
whiskeys ! V A certain missionary once asked a new cpnvert if he had any clear notions on this sacred subject ; his Asiatic proselyte immediately made three folds in his garment , and having held them in that state a few seconds , pulled them , back again into / one .
We believe the doctrine of the Trinity , because , though above reason , it is matter of faith ; but we are not bound to believe in all the explanations of it , which are often against both t and matter of neither . The attention of
the religious world in the West of England was lately much . occupied by a very learned controversy on this subject , carried on by three doughty champions , each of whom . with more of erudition , but perhaps Jess of gentleness , than the shepherds in Virgil ,
were * et cantare pares , et respondere par at i . The individuals , however , were more at home in knocking down each other ' s arguments , than m establishing their , own ; which , led the
sharp-sighted editor of a certain journal whpse columns our polemics had filled , without much profit to the sale , to suppose that it was high » time for him to interfere , and to sum up with all due impartiality between the
parties : : — - —— < Componere lites Inter Peliden festinat , et inter Atriden / . " He did so , and though luminous on many other points , * The ' PPebiern Luminary * was rather obscure u ^ on this :
¦ Magnis tamcn excidit ausis . ' ** To convince him , however , that his three learned correspondents , however they had disagreed in particulars , agreed as to the main , and that he hiroftelf in summing had settled
up , the controversy in a manner m || re conclusive than superficial ol > ser rv ^ rs inight admil ; , Q ^ ccede tq , Is ^ nthjm the iollpvying # tle f jep . & $ spr $ , whiph he ha 4 t > e ? ai | daur t $ in ^ rt : ^
" Cleve—Deniii ^^ Carpeuteri—» agree ! Aiidt ^ fully Woy ^ a Il ^ iuity ; .- . * ' Foe in their wrltjnge , all way se ^ Not ' Qjle incomprehensible—but three !
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Stricture * on-Qoltorfs " Lacon . " 609 >
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vol . xvii . 4 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 609, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/25/
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