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tionalhy bound to do ! If the latter , then any contradiction may be true , and we may shut the Bible . No other conceivable way is there for getting * out of this dilemma , than by affirming that Milton or Gardner , or , vice vers& , Mr . Urwick , have not used as proper means , and as sincerely endeavoured to find out the
truth , as they respectively might have done * And this , at last , brings the discussion exactly to the issue in which all wise men could easily perceive it must end , and in which all good men must , as surely , desire it to end i and that is , that the favour of
God , in the next world , will be awarded , not to the accidental possession , but to the sincere love and the persevering pursuit of it in this . And , c < if , as my great auxiliary , Chillingwortb , beautifully observes , * by reason of the variety of
tempers , abilities , educations , and unavoidable prejudices , whereby men ' s understandings are variously formed and fashioned , they do embrace Beveral opinions , whereof some must be erroneous ; to say that God will damn them for such errors who are lovers
of him and lovers of truth , is to rob man of his comfort and God of his goodness , it is to make man desperate and Goi > a tyrant . " " The having done , and continuingto do , " says bis illustrious pupil , Bisliop Hoadly , * ' all that is , morally and humanly speaking , in the power of men , for our information , and the acting according to the be 3 t light we
can procure , is that beyond which man cannot go , nor God demand his service . " G . A .
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where this light finds its way , it wiH create an inextinguishable desire for more light . We are led into these reflections by accidentally taking up a book which would not at first view appear likely to suggest them . It is a mariners ' book , designed only for commanders and other officers of ships , and is entitled , ** The New Sailing Directory for the Mediterranean Sea , the Adriatic Sea , or Gulf of Venice , the
Archipelago and Levant , the Sea of Marmara , and the Black Sea . " The Compiler is Mr . John Purdy , " Hydrographer , " whose name may be seen on many of Mr . Laurie ' s best executed and most valued charts . Of the merits of the work as a
Sailing Directory we are incompetent to form a judgment , though it is plainly drawn up with great labour and care , and abounds with references to the best authorities : but what has struck and delighted us is the useful , instructive and even elegant matter which is introduced into it , and which
must be an agreeable novelty to most of its readers . We cannot imagine any thing more pleasing than that the master of a ship in the Mediterranean , while consulting this manual for the regulation of the track of his vessel , should be attracted to some
beautiful verses ( say Mrs . Barbauld ' s ) , to a description of the antiquities of some classical spot , to the relation of some historic event or the picture of some great historic character , to the correction of some popular
superstition or the elucidation of some point of natural philosophy . All this may happen to the nautical reader , possessing the volume before us . We quote ( from p . 116 ) one passage by way of specimen : it describes a curious optical illusion in the Italian seas .
** The Fata Morgana . " We shall conclude this Section witli a note on a remarkable aerial p henomenon which lias been seen on the StraJt oL Messina , at a certain height in the
atmosphere . The name , which signifies the Fairy Morgana , is derived from an opiniou of the Sicilians , that the spectacle is produced by fairies .
" This singular meteor lias necn u scribed by various authors ; but llie first who mentioned it , with any degree of precision , was Father Angclucci , whose
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The Fata Morgana . THERE is no feature of the times more pleasing than the growing taste of all readers for a better class of hooks than they have been accustomed to peruse . Newspapers , Magazines , children ' s books and works
of every description , are improved , owing to the evident improvement of the public mind . This is not only good in itself , but also an earnest of good to come : for it shews that the light of knowledge is penetrating through all ranks in society ; and
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1826, page 578, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2553/page/6/
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