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., * $ w net * TJie auw # rJs quite justified »« subscribing his ivame ( Joseph . Dare ) to ¦'' t ^ H M ^ vM effijsion . He will forgi ve me for aarodd speculation \ yhich his sigjiatuse suggested to my mind . cc How dare you ( deliver me
such a paper ? " said Charles II . to a person who p ^ esentetf him with a petition in behalf of fthe abridged liberties of the people . " Sir * " replied he , " my name is Dare-. " . " For this reply , but under other pretences / 1 says Hume , " he had been tried ,, fined , and ' committed to prison . The
Cammoas addressed the King for his liberty , and for remitting his fine / ' The boldness of this promising young Sonnetteer , in giving-the puplic his name , and particularly , his connexion with the Whiggish Monthly Repository , inspired nie with an idle imagination that he might be a direct descendant from the quick-witted patriot of olden
e . Obituary , Here are noticed three venerable men , who had advanced beyond the septuagenarian limit , and died in the profession c qf our pure faith . Hallowed be their memories , im $ l diligent their successors to follow in their worthy footsteps J
Is it customary to meet in the Gentleman ' s Magazine jvitli sentiments so liberal as thQse cQn $ aine 4 in the ex-• tracked notj ^ e of Baron M a-seres ? fnteillgenee . Manchester College . An Institution so admirably organized and administered as this appears to be , must sooner Or later occupy a
commanding space in the attention and patronage of an enlightened age . Kent and Sussex Association , &c . &c . What other sects in England , )> eside the Unitarians , hold these social religious meetings , where both sexes unite in improving and decent conviviality ?
At Ipswich , I observe that only about twenty ladies graced the presence of sixty gentlemen or more . I trust this is not a symptom of the relative proportion of Unitarianisin between the sexes in that neighbourhood . Is the softer part of creation there afraid to speculate in
controversy ? Or did the" retiring habits of the majority keep them away from the festive board ? In America , it is true that some of our most vifulent Trinitarians are among the females , and ° « en do they scratch a man ' s reputa-
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tion Qf * t of favour with astonishing adjroiWess andnsuccess . But , generally speaking , our Unitarian places of puhlie worship exhibit a gentrom moiety Of attendants from among- the daughters of Adam , and not infrequently the proportion is greater still . t Protestant Society for the Proiec *
lion of Religwu $ Liberty * Mr . Wilks is a Niagara of eloquence . Let me ask , what I think I asked in connexion with the Unitarian Association before , how is the Protestant Society to maintain its ground , if the Catholic Association of Ireland is to be put down ? Wherein do the two Institutions
differ , in point of principle ? Does your Legislature proceed on supposed immediate expediency , or on broad general principles ? New Publications , &c , I desiderate a short , compressed , faithful account of every one of these publications . Has there ever existed a
Review confined entirely to this simple plan 1 The catalogues of the old Critical and Monthly are far froiti satisfying me * Aikiti ' s Annual Review approached in some particulars nearer to my conception . Some of the German Reviews almost hit it- Perhaps such a work would be too little
discursive for the popular taste ; perhaps one half of the books published are unworthy of a description ; and the affair , to be faithfully and thoroughly done , would require too many contributors for the common run of encouragement . ,
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Vindication ofMarp Magdalene * . 393
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Kenilworth 9 Sir , June 18 , 1825 . MY fecliugs of indignation were not a littlelroused , on reading , in your last Number , ( p . 305 , ) the following prelude to the Hymn of Mary Magdalene : " ** These lines are founded on the
supposition that , previously to her acquaintance with our Lord , Mary Magdalene had been an erring- woman . " My indignation was roused , I say , Sir , that in this 19 th century , when the world has made such astonishing
progress in theological , as well as in every other kind of knowledge , any writer should be found , who would allow himself to give credit to a supposition which has not , I will venture to say , even a shadow of evidence t (* support it . True it is , Sir , that Wary
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/9/
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