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philosophical difficulties as they are , than with these brilliant-and mystical speculations . Schiller , with all his ff enius and fancy , is unable to fill up his sketch as he intends t * o do . Many steps are left obscurely traced in his account of the progress of roan . Many " rounds of -the . ladder , " - as lie
calls them , are missing-. Moses tells us that Adam ate of a forbidden fruit , and thus introduced sin into the world . Schiller accounts for the same fact by saying * * that maw threw himself into the wild game of life . Now by which writer of the two are ive the better instructed as to the
most critical and important point of the whole subject ?~ Schiller is throughout much more abstract thaa Moses . Yet , notwithstanding the contemplative reader pauses and shakes his head at almost every
successive position , it is an ingenious and interesting essay , after the manner of the theories so characteristic of the last century . A noble criticism is that on the distinction
between the children of Elohiui and the children of men . This translation , like that of the Mosaic Mission before , is admirably well executed- In second paragraph of p . 411 , " undertake the portion" might perhaps have been made more idiomatically
English ; and in the same paragraph , 'Maid claim to his superfluity / ' would have thrown a better light on the author ' s idea , besides conforming exactly to the original . Account of the Wahahees , looks almost an allegory on certain things Jn Christendom .
Mr . Bels / mm in Reply to Mr . Frend . How important it is to study a gentle manner in controversy ! After reading- this piece of Mr . BelshanVs , I think I will take
warning , and in all my future remarks , which have any bearing on opposite opinions , I will " ^ ira at the suaviter in modo , not less than the former in re .
Ordination Services . This " one lv ° rd" is a volume . oetry . \ n these two pieces , the ^ Herein , poetic styles of the last and present generations are distinctly disic niible . The . sonnet is fall of lr <* gth and emphasis , and aims at ° «* ag « er * tcd and ideal . The Wnm i 35 ^ 3 mure . aweetnes 5 , and natural-
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ness , but are comparatively feeble . Who sees not , that in point of style r Mr . Dare is a disciple of the school of Byron , while the effusion of J . T . R ^ betrays a former youthfjul acquaintance with the Shenstones ; ' Goldsmiths , Hayleys , and Langhorns ?
I was amused by the coincidence between some sentiments of the sonnet and certain curious suggestions as to the author , contained in the Synopsis in this very mirab ^ r . Obituary . There is a p&etry in the situation of Mr . Cook ' s death near
the wells of Elim , which deserves to be commemorated by some lover of the muse . Intelligence . The interesting circumstances attending the present made to Mr . Field , are a good commentary on the attempts of the book entitled " The Manchester Socinian
Controversy , " to represent Umtarianisrn aa withering in its tendencies , and declining in its condition , la one or two places , I remember it , artfully says , that there are very small , if any , Unitarian audiences sometimes
in winter . By this rule the Established Church might be proved ta be in a weakly and decaying state . Will it not be thought worth while to review the volume just mentioned ? I read it with much interest and
attention , and although , with all the art and skill of special pleading , it has endeavoured to prove the poiat of * ' Unitarian delinquencies , * ' yet I cannot feel convinced that the , apparent divergence of the funds in question from the objects originally
proposed , is illegal or ury ^ st . , Dr . Smith , I am aware , is unwilling to allow for a moment the propr iety of a presumptive change of sentiment } a
the original deviser . But-the principal merits of the controversy , at Least in a moral view , hinge on this single point . Nor can I account for the general silence of the Orthodox parties
in the Manchester Controversy , u \» m this point , on any other supposition * than that they felt it to be insuperable . The simple but astonishing ffict * which the above-mentioned book , by
its officious enumeration of congregations , only sets in a more glaring and , resistless light , that almost , ; the whole Presbyterian interest tl ^ ro ^ h out England has gvadutllyj bm > uto Unitarian , speaks every . tiling * . iriwbe-
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Criticnl Synopsis of the Monthly Repository for July , 1825 . 465
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/21/
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