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to give up its funds to the General Fund ^—oaght not the acceptance of such a proposal to be specifically provided for ? Art . 13 . Entitles persons to become members , with different amounts of subscription . Will this never cause clashing ?
Art . 16 . Why render ineligible those members of the Committee , who have attended most punctually to its concerns , and have thereby demonstrated that their leisure and inclination best qualify them for the duties ?
Art . SO . Many of the deputies could well afford to bear their own expenses , and irvany could undoubtedly make the business of the Association and their own in London to coincide .
Art , 15 . I am of opinion that {}***** the F ***** , if asked to subn . scribe to this building , would give oive hundred guineas . How would such an act of laudable munificence
confirm the loyalty of a fine , noble and obstinate body of men ! I will oaly add ^ that 4 he repneseaw tative system , which forms a leading aad excellent feature of the plan * would seem to preclude the necessity of an immediate dissolution of the
Unitarian Fund , Unitarian Association and other such bodies . Why not permit these societies ta ^ continue still in existence—to hkve their regular writings—to consider them * selves as auxiliaries to the main society , and to send their represent ** - tires and contributions to the General
Meeting ? Under such circumstances , the peculiar business of each society might with great facility revert into its own hands , if the proposed Aseo ^ ciation should be found too umvieJdy and multifarious to carry all its
departments into complete effect . I should suppose , too , that this arrangement would abolish the troublesome and expensive business of legal transfers , which the proposed plaJi of amalgamation would render necessary ,
Lord Byron ' s Infidelity . The little correspondence between Lord B . and Mr . Sheppard , here inserted , places the character of the former in a more lovely and interesting light thaaa any thing that has yet been recorded of him , anil must be inexpressibly valua-
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ble as a material for spine of Ym future biOguapjUers . Who mil write m a proper manner the Kfe of Lord Byron ? ' > Mr . < 3 ogmn ton Dr . Charming * & Sermon ^ m equally to be praised for the clearness and closeness ofli 3
analytical reasoning , and for his conciliatory tone towards a writer on whom he felt bound to pass these strictures . As for Jiis eulogium © a Priestley , it seems to me somewhat Coo exalted aad unqualified . But I am unpre pared to enter here into the details of my opinion , and I would not
venture to oppose my mere authority on this subject to that of Mr . Cogan . That portion of the world , who will not or cannot judge for themselves , must make up their minds between Dr . Channing ' s personal authority , and that of the host of Dr . Priestley ' s defenders who seem to be starting up on every side .
Translation of Ro&enmulier on Isa . ix « 6 , 6 . I have frequently thought that no articles more characteristic and appropriate could be prepared for the Repository than translations of eome of the longer notes of the German commentators . The
Rosenjmillers , Kuinoel , Paul , EiehhorA Thiess , Wolf and many others , have furnished invaluable materials for such articles . The extravagancies and errors into vvhich some of them have been betrayed , ought on no account to blind oar eyes to their numerous excellencies . Kuraoel ' s note ^ for
instance , on the Temptation of Christ , is a compact and lucid account of the whole subject . In thousands of other instances , he sheds a most glowing and unexpected light on the
obscurities of the evangelists . He is not an Anti-Supernaturalist . Paul , it is well known , is ; b t * t often surpasses even Kuinoel in the aouteoess of his philological criticisms .
As an enlightened eommeatator , the younger Kosenmuller seems to me much inferior to his father . His principal excellence is his Hebtew scholarship . Take hito off the ground
of philology , and he is but an ordinary man . He seems to be swayed b y a system , rather tUau by the genius of truth . He leans and gropes along amid a wilderness 6 f teaming , iuatoatl oi maroMcg indepOudehtly
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Critical Synopsis ef the Monthly Repository for January 1825 . Jfi
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/11/
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