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the simplicity and foajesty of his senti- , merits , the sepulchral solemnity of a voice « which seemed to issue from the shades , i combined with the intrinsic dignity of the subject , perfectly quelled the audience ^ with tenderness and terror , and produced
such a scene of audible weeping as was perhaps never surpassed . All other emotions were absorbed in devotional feeling : it seemed to us as though we were permitted for a short space to look into eternity , and every sublunary object vanished before * the powers of the worJd
to come . ' Yet there was no considerable exertion , no vehemence displayed by the speaker , no splendid imagery , no magnificent description : it wa $ the simple domination of truth , of truth indeed of infinite moment , borne in upon the heart by
a mind intensely alive to its reality and grandeur . Criticism was disarmed ; the hearer felt himself elevated to a region which it could not penetrate ; all was powerless submission to the master spirit of the scene . " —Mem . pp . 16 , 17 .
Much allowance , we think , must be made for the circumstances which the biographer has so finely represented , and for his own susceptibility oiF strong emotions * and his habit of vivid and glowing * delineation . Yet , after every deduction of this kind , the concluding discourse cannot well be read , as it was not heard , without a
deep and peculiar interest . Its " simplicity , " its " godly sincerity / ' and its affectionate and personal application , render it irresistibly touching and pathetic . Perhaps it exhibits a more correct picture than any other in the volume of the preacher ' s specific character—mental , moral and religious .
Defects belong to all human compositions , and often are allied very closely to considerable excellencies . It is thus in the few and trifling blemishes * interspersed throughout Mr . Toller ' s Sermons . The familiarity of
lus language may sometimes degenerate into quaintness , into expressive , indeed , yet singular combinations of terms . Occasionally , the illustrations may be superfluous and crowded , or the divisions somewhat too refined and
minute . These things , however , are but motes in the sun-beams : they detract in a very small measure from the superlative merits of the volume .
* - — << velut si Egregio inspersos reprendas corporc nscvos , " Hor .
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A | ' \ young writer of taste will T easily shun what is exceptionable in this preachers style ; while he copies after those valuable qualities of it which are free from mannerism . Mr * . was a proof of the advantages of academical instruction . We would not
discourage the exercise of fancy and imagination : but we are certainly desirous that addresses from the pulpit be correct and plain , and recommended by a vigorous simplicity of language . There are those who " affect
the flowers of rhetoric , almost before they understand the parts of speech f * assuredly , before they are acquainted with the nicely-discriminating shades of words that appear synonymous . Nature is often unknown or deserted .
and vicious models of composition are extolled . A worthy Oxford tutor once said to his pupils of the style of some favourite sermons , " Boys will imitate it ; and boys will be spoiled by imitating it . " ^ We flatter ourselves that the publication of Mr . Toller ' s discourses will contribute to restore a
* Tatler , No . 244 . f- Blackburne ' s Remarks on Johnson ' s Life of Milton , p . 130 ,
chaster , better taste in this respect ; while they subserve the infinitely higher purpose of advancing the empire of " pure religion and undefiled before God , even the Father !" N .
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354 Reviews—East-India Unitarian ^ Tracts .
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Art . II . —— East-India Unitaran Tracts . ( Continued from p . 301 . ) THE title of the last of these Tracts in our possession—we class it with Unitarian tracts from its
evident bearing on the Unitarian controversy—is as follows : " The Brahmunicai Magazine $ or , the Missionary and the tirahmun . Being a Vindication of the Hindoo Religion against the Attacks of Christian Missionaries . By Shivu-Prusad Surma . Second Edition- ( Calcutta , August 1823 . "
In a < Preface to the second edition , " Shivu-Prusad Surma gives the history of the controversy between him and the Missionaries . These gentlemen published , at Seramporc , ' * a Bengally weekly newspaper , entitled Summachar DunrwN . " One of the numbers contained a letter ex-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 354, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/34/
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