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    Xev $ > dy&fuirof , our masters teach us to say , £ * £ * , f 3 d < r * fev $ , avSffoovo $ 9 cum multis aiiis . In this attention to the true accent consists one of the principal pepfcllarities of the proposed

    method , imd one of its essential features . Stypae difficulty occurs , in certain cases , in maintaining a due observance of tlie quantity or time of the syllables : for instance , an

    Englishman laying the accent of the first syllable of dvSrawos , is apt to shorten the second , and pronounce the word as if it were written dv&gowoq $ but this is not necessary , ana may be

    avoided by a little time and pains * The word dv ^ eoivoq should be sounded pretty much like the English word schoolmistress * A fuller explanation of this matter has been already given in the Repository for August 1823 ,

    pp . 442—450 . The proposal of Hellenistes will , after ail , by many of your readers be deemed whimsical and useless * Let them not , however , condemn it

    without consideration ; for perhaps its general adoption among us might impart a new charm and interest to our society , and be the parent of very happy consequences * T . F . B .

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    egotism . I may say I was born and bred in the centre of theological and ecclesiastical controversy . A Sermdfc of Mr * Bryant , minister pf the parish , who lived on the spot now a part af the farm on which I live , * occasioned the ^ Controversy between him and Mr . Miles , Mr . Porter , Mr . Bass , and many

    others : it broke out like the eruption of a volcano , and blazed with portentous aspectTor many years . The deaih of Dr , Miller , the Episcopal minister of this town , produced the controversy between Dr . Mayhew and Mr .

    Apthorp , who were both so connected with the town , that they might almost be considered inhabitants of it . I may say that my eyes opened upon books of controversy between the parties of Mr . Buckminster and Mr . Miller : I

    became acquainted with Dyer , Doolittle and Baldwin , three notable disputants . Mr . M * Carty , though a Calvinist , was not a bigot ; but the town of Worcester was a scene of disputes all the time I was there . When I left , I entered into a scene

    of other disputations at the bar , and not long afterwards , disputations of another kind , in politics . In later times , I have lived with Atheists , Deists , Sceptics ; with cardinals , archbishops , monks , friars of the Roman Catholic persuasion ; with

    archbishops , bishops , deans and priests , of the Church of England ; with Farmer , Price , Priestley , Kip pis , Rees , Dering (?) and Jebb 3 with the English and Scottish clergy in Holland , and especially with Dr . Maclean , at the Hague . I have conversed freely with most of

    the sects in America , and have not been wholly inattentive to the writings and reasonings of all these denominations of Christians and philosophers . You may well suppose , then , that I have had controversy enough : but , after all , I declare to you , th ^ tt your twenty-nine Sermons have expressed the result of all my reading ,

    experience and reflection , in . a manner more satisfactory to me than I could have done in the best days of my ^ trength . The most afflictive circumstances that 1 have witnessed in the lot of humanity , are the in arrow views , the unsocial humours , the fastidious scorn and repulsive temper , of all denominations , excepting orne .

    I cannot conclude this letter without adding an anecdote . One of the zealous mendicants for the contribu-

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    Letter from Ex-President Adams to Dr . Bancroft . 35

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    Letter from John Adams > Ex-President of the United States , to Dr . Bancroft , of Worcester ( Mass . ) . [ The first number of a religious newspaper at New York , entitled * The Christian Inquirer / ' published so lately

    as Jan . 1 , 1825 , has been sent to us by the kindness of a friend . We per * ceive with pleasure that use is made in it of The Monthly Repository , and in return we take from it the following letter , which is a pleasing example of the way in which the statesmen of America employ their retirement . ]

    Quincy , Dear Sir , January 1 , 1823 , 1 THANK you for your kind letter of the 30 t ) i December , and , above all , for the gift of a precious volume . It is a chain of diamonds set in a link of gold . I Iji ^ ve ne ver read or heard a volume of Sermons better calculated

    or adapted tjo the age and country in which it was written . How different from the sejTJtaons I heard and read in the town of Worcester , from the year 1755 to 1768 ! As my destiny in life has been somewhat uncommon , I must beg pardon for indulging in a little

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1825, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2532/page/35/