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s ^ itfi ^^^ 'lV ^ ' ^^^^ fiAal ^ seed , of a gay y&Mig ^ pewAt&fifo feckk ing hisjpaaster ' s prlpr of a fatted calf bein ) £ 4 c 111 ed fpi-a festival , of a w ^ maii o * i for the oveti
kricMin ]^ faj ^ f d | $ yp $ who&e mstfuetiofis &ver equalled his ; in ;^ re atfd gefcfaifte simplicity or iir su 4 * linsity of effect ? The young vMttld listen witfi pleasure , the enljlflitened with improvement , the bi-^ M ; : Wit h suspense , the profligate witH Contrition , the scoffer with
respect , the publican with remorse , and tfe fiaiigbty pharisee or the intoleraftVatid rapacious priest with resentnftyt atid indignation . Yet all these vari ^ Q feibotions were produced by iheflMnest ideas clothed in the
plainest language , and " no man ever sp&ke ^ like this man . " His were appeals frotu the understanding to the Kfeart , add the heart echoed them ba £ k to the understanding . This is the wUy to convey instruction and to erisure its success . Not that I would
advocate the coarseness , vulgarity and fVutfootiery which have sometimes degraded our itinerant champions , though even these have , no doubt , sometimes enforced attention where any other mode would have failed in its object . -But , on the other hand , have we not slided into the other extreme ?
So that even where mystery has been disclaimed and the fetters of prejudice have Been loosened , have we not been t 66 apt to dwell upon inapplicable generalities , or launched into that
pompous or elegant refinement that leaves nothing on which the memory shall delight to dwell , or by which the ddhduct shall regulate its affairs in tliel ^ iaily occurrences of real life ? Whatever degree of attention these c&ses irtay ^ attract , and various as may
we thouglit tlMr utility , it cannot , I shbuld think , be doubted but that tht y fhay famish some useful instruction aiftl amusement to family circles round the winter evening fires , or as supplying topics for juvenile themes ttn ^ r the inspection of parental
gniuance . Any person conversant with tyw affairs , and more particularly with Chancery cases , may easily swell the li « t with interesting matter , so as oc * casionally to occupy a column or two or the Repository , as long as you w your headers may think it desirable ; *» d remaiks or subjects from different
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< mmm ^ ft cife ^ o ^ lii M ^ f ^ , whwh ift # ^ WM ^ . ffet qmi Q * c ^ .,,,, ..- iiVf D ( ul inh . ^[ - 1 { . i . , , r . Cases : # f Adjs ' ^ etatw ^ -ii ^' i ^^ om ^^^
'¦ * '¦' ¦'< * j ¦ ' ' - ' ¦' . _ ¦ » -..,. _ ,. JV widow is left witli an only sbn , a deceit ^ nnujty and iio other x > ropert } what ^ y ejf for thei r subsistence , and tljis aontiUy of course ce dse ^ with her life . Siie enters into a ne ^ ociation with a inercnant to take her son as an
apprentice for seven years . The merchant proposes , that if he takes the youth into his own house to board and maintain , he sh&ll have a premium of ^ 150 ; or if the inotherkeeps him in her own house , and at her own
expense , during the whole period , that he will , then expect his services without any remuneration , on tlie supposition that the information and experience the youth may acquire will be
adequate to his services , The mother prefers the latter conditions ; the youth is bound to them , and shortly after the mother dies , leaving him destitute ; where is he to look for hi a simnort ? »» w ^ -
^* m * ^^» w No . 2 . ; Suppose a husband or wife to have been guilty of some gross violation of the laws of society , say ( as an extreme
case ) of premeditated murder , the other party knowing oif the crime , but no ways accessary to it either before or after its perpetration—what will the moral sense , as connected
with the marriage contract , require him or her to do , to disclose or , to conceal the fact ? Or , again , suppose the crime to be in contemplation , and nothing but disclosure can prevent its accomplishment \ which is the paramount dutv , unbounded affection or fatal evidence ? Or how will the cases
stand if a father and son be substituted in the place of husband afid wife , or for lower degrees of consanguinity ?
No . 3 . For the sake of encouraging a fellow-townsmau , whom I believe to be in law circumstances , and with a numerous fajnily , I apply to him , to taik $ my likeoess . I know him to be tin inferior artist , but 1 have seen twib eft three of his lucky hits , and shall be well ^ jtfefied if :., he ^ w ^ ed a& vvell with iniae * His price j ^ JVo wi axi ^ M
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Sornd Cases dfi ^ tyuciemes ) tyt ? Mr fau $ & 4 $$ ^ G 7 l
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1826, page 671, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2554/page/35/
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