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    effect , which shall perhaps fertilize a kingdom , or alter the face of a country , or provide for the certain happiness of many future generations ? What fair hand shall first have the

    honour of working a standard in which the olive-branch shall be conspicuous ? When shall the world read the first bulletin , announcing the blessed operations of these peaceful campaigns ? Monumental Inscription to Dr . Alexander , Is not this rather too

    lon $ for the beau-ideal of an epitaph ? KirKe White has u critical Essay on the subject , which seems judicious and worth consulting . Yet I know how hard it is to repress the affectionate loquacity which dwells on departed excellence .

    Letter from Jefferson to Adams . While I allow that nothing can be more classically beautiful and affecting than the correspondence between these old men , yet I must not conceal the fact , that many very experienced politicians on this side the Atlantic ,

    though they admired the amiable , soothing and conciliatory tone exhibited by Mr . Jefferson in this letter , were not a little astonished at the manner in which he qualifies one of the longest , and most bitter political quarrels that have ever distracted our country . Still , Mr . Jefferson ' s

    explanation of the peculiar attitude into which circumstances formerly threw himself and Mr . Adams in respect to each other , may be the true one , and precisely that which was wanted . We certainly cannot expect higher authority on the subject . A 3 corroborative testimony on Mr . Adams's part also , I remember a conversation held bv him

    with an old New-Hampshire clergyman , who carried me forty miles , when a boy , to visit the Ex-President in the year 1803 or 1804 . At that time political parties were raging in the most furious manner under the nominally opposite banners of Jefferson and

    Adams . Our host was carrying us round his richly-cultivated farm , and well do I remember the top of a little stony eminence on which he paused for a short time , and pronounced a

    warm eulogy or * the character of Mr . Jefferson . Having never beard the last name mentioned by Mr . Adams ' s supporters but with execration , and having myself conceived against it a strong prejudice ,, I cannot describe the

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    force with which a lesstfn of liberality was thus taught me from the lips of a recently unsuccessful and disappointed rival . Irish Episcopal -Incomes . Nothing can be more reasonable , practicable and liberal , than the proposition of

    the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle . There is no feature in the present condition of America more attractive than the annual voluntary payment of an immense sum all over the country for the support of the

    institutions of religion . The amount contributed for this purpose , is probably double the whole expense of the civil government . During the last year , many more new and costly churches were erected than ever before .

    The disposition to enlarge the salaries of ministers 13 more frequently witnessed , than to diminish them . In all our back-settlements , every body , in the shape of a clergyman of any denomination , has his passage free over all

    ferries ; bis entertainment is given him wherever he chooses to lodge , and his host , though ever so irreligious a reprobate , informs him , that if he wishes it , the neighbours ( i . e . people who live from a half mile to three miles

    off ) shall be called ia to hear him preach . I beg that these symptoms of respect ana kindliness for religion , may be attended to , as a little brightening of the horrible pictures which hare been so zealously circulated in England , of our poor Backwoodsmen .

    Fraud on the Memory of Collins . Base , indeed . But , without impeaching the integrity of Mr . D'lsraeli ' s intentions in making out for us this literary curiosity , I should like to have heard Mr . Cumberland ' s account of

    the same transaction . On the voluntary Nature of Christ ' s Death . This writer thinks that Christ , being without sin , might have escaped death any way . But infants , it seems , cannot escape death , though ever so free from sin . How , too , was Christ ' s

    death purely voluntary , when the writer acknowledges that " it was appointed by Divine Providence" ? I am not certain that those passages of Scripture want illumination , which he says will receive light from hia peculiar view of Christ ' s death .

    Dr . John Jones on the Parable of Dives . Notwithstanding the haug hty sneers of such works as the Quarterly

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    324 Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for June , 1824 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 324, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/4/