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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for March , 1825 . THE PURITANS . No . I . Delightful . This correspondent talks well in behalf of our illustrious forefathers . Nonconformist antiquities are always to me a welcome theme .
The passage quoted by the Editor of Wood ' s Athenae , does not , if closely examined , fix The Learned Discourse of Ecclesiastical Government upon Dr . John Field . It is not inconsistent with Mr . Fulk himself being the
author in question . Field is said merely to have published the book ; and though Fulk threatened to confute " it , yet , be it remembered , he had now certainly changed his former opinions , and had connected himself already
with the Established Church . His bustling anger at Field ' s publishing the work does not , therefore , tend to weaken the hypothesis of his being the author . The contrary perhaps .
In the transcript of the Dedication of Dudley Fenner ' s Sacred Theologie , is not His Majesty a misprint ? I doubt whether the establishment of the public debt , have , of itself , brought about so great changes in England'as are generally ascribed to it . The increase of the mere monied
interest undoubtedly has deprived " the country gentlemen of much of their consequence and usefulness- ;" but this would have taken place had the public debt never been incurred . The same money which is now productive in thd funds , would have been
equally or more productive in other investments . American Unitarian Tracts . Of the two memoirs here mentioned , Mr . Thacher himself wrote that of Mr . Buckminster . The Memoir of Mr .
Thacher ' s Life , was written by Mr . Greenwood , last Editor of the Unitarian Miscellany , and now colleague of Dr . Freeman , in King ' s Chapel , Boston . The defence of Dr . Priestley , extracted here by Mr . Taylor from the Miscellany , was also written by ivi
r . ureenwood , who , when in tingland , a few years since , shared a cordial intercourse , if not with Southey , yet certainly with Wordsworth ,, without suffering his Unitarian predilections and sympathies to be weakened J ^ t English Unitarians be propitiate ^
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by the defence just mentioned , for any harsh feelings which may have been excited against America by the attack of Dr . Channing on Priestley . We Americans are very proud of the following" passage in Greenwood ' s Life of Thacher . It is in the memory and hearts of thousands of our
reading community , having been circulated in many a magazine and newspaper through the land . An increased pathos , a more affecting charm , is spread over the extract , when we recollect , that it was written by one who had himself just returned from a weary , and as yet doubtful , pilgrimage in pursuit of health .
" It is a sad thing * to feel that we must die away from our own home . Tell not the invalid who is yearning after his distant country , that the atmosphere around him is soft , that the gales are filled with balm , and the flowers are springing from the green earth ; he knows that the softest air to his heart would be the air which
hangs over his native land ; that more gratefully than all the gales of the south , would breathe the low whispers of anxious affection ; that the very icicles cleaving to his own eaves ,
and the snow beating against his own windows , would be far more pleasant to his eyes , than the bloom and verdure which only more forcibly remind him , how far he is from that one spot which is dearer to him than the world
beside . He may , indeed , find estimable friends , who will do all in their power to promote his comfort and assuage his pains ; but they cannot supply the place of the long known
and the long loved ; they cannot read , as in a book , the mute language of his face ; they have not learned to wait upon his habits , and he has not learned to communicate , without
hesitation , all his wishes , impressions and thoughts , to them . He feels that he is a stranger- and a more desolate feelinir than that could not visit his
soul . How much is expressed by that form of oriental benediction , May you dxe among your Mndred !" Dr . Chalmers ' s late Volume of Sermons . O the wordiness of Dr .
Chalmers 1 His paragraphs remind me of the bowl of soaped water which amused our childhood—a little grain of meaning" being beaten up in a great
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Critical Synopsis of the Monthly Repository fbr March , 1825 . 197
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/9/
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