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Critical fyMptfi % ' / 4 hM Mit % M M ' ' $ - i pontet& ^ irfuMitfpm&lf . <; : T % XBMOIRS OF I % 0 V& © ill Ufa ' JL ¥ JL « ke authenticity of f hejse fl ^ i moksappear placed upbri' tbtfitfc&SI *
grounds to be impeached of suspeeS ed , I should say , that the very imnkrte and personal particularities to whieh the writer so often descends , savour of a fictitious origin , worthy the genius of a Swift , or a Gait .
Notes on Scrip Hire . s < I will chastise you with scorpions . " I cannot agree with the critic , that the cotoin on supposition on this passage i& cc highly improbable . 5 * The very ex-t igency of the place seems to justify it . Not only the antithetical parallelism of Hebrew poetry is in its favour , but the remarkable resemblance between
a whip composed of several lashes , and the scorpion of many knotted legs , raises the probable existence of the instrument in question almost to a certainty . The critic sterna to part
a moment with his usual clearness , when he represents the monarch a * using the expression " altogether \ xt the way of figure / ' What ! without reference to any primary meaning whatever ? That would be to make
him insane" indeed . Latin Verties applied to Mr . Turner . This article is a choice literary morceau . But let me . protest against Ihe unworthy squearnishness which would interdict a writer of genius from contributing to Bbckwotfd ' s
Magazine , on account of soipe of ifc * exceptionable principles . In tins spirit-stirring , bustling , heterogeneous age , it is wrong to impeach a man for being sometimes fouod by the side of occasional companions , from whom he differs in the cast of
his principles and character . In the grand procession of intellect , some must be expected to march together , who are strangers in the more private walks of life , and are even ardently engaged in the prosecution of opposing objects . The fierce attack of the
above-mentioned Magazine on Dr , Chalmers for writing in the Edinburgh Review , which I believe absolutely intimidated the Doctor from a repetition of the act , always appeared to me to proceed on nanpow and untenable grounds . I am aware that there arc extreme cases in vvhich a good writer would be disgraced , . or
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;> iWhw 3 « ei ^ i ^ fi ^^ ^^^ h ptiattt royalists ior <« fftif &y repuplicans , tbti aine licimtioft 4 tf-b 4 r apefctes to a ( k * leetable ^ lopfe of iJieditatioa * It ealarges the understanding and purifies tbe heart . It urges to incessant in
^ forts the cause m suffering humanity ? for the Christian philanthropist , propelled by the combined energies of science an < f of religion , sets no boundaries to visions opening upon him respecting the final happiness of the world . In spite of the taunts
of infidelity , and of the vagaries of fanaticism , irresistible is the march of improvement . Thus the mountain torrent , swelling in its course , surmounts every obstruction and reaches the ocean which , by the alternation of wind and tide , flings its salutary waters around the globe . Indeed , the eye of Omniscience is
never dimmed , nor is the arm of Omnipotence ever paralysed * Providence has never been waiting £ a means for the accomplishment of its favourite purposes of love and mercy towards the great family of mankind , J . EVANS .
P . S . I think of sending you , Mr . Editor , three papers for the remain ing numbers of the present volume of the Repository , oa the very peculiar circumstances in which Milton s Treatise on the Christian Doctrine was composed- These considerations will enhance the interest of that
extraordinary work , which has excited so much attention in the religious world ; ana this may be the more necessary , when it is recollected that , whilst the Evangelical Magazine is sending forth its monthly essays to counteract its poisonous contents , good orthodox
wisjiop Burgess ( my Lord of Salis-* Wy ) has questioned the authenticity < h the work . His Majesty , who ordered its publication , will not thank
wm lor it . Such are the Quixotic attempts to quench the light of Unitananisna in the nineteenth century . * he latter days of Milton , obscured * jy visual darkness and embittered by . Jf cstic infelicity , were encompassed ™ " a blaze of literary and moral 8 r ? He is and ever will be the * dtouration of posterity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/13/
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