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from the critic before me on a certain point of taste ? i cannot think tbe introduction of texts df Scripture into
devotional poetry deserving the appellation of a " blemish . " It appears to me , if skilfully managed , an impressive and appropr iate beauty . To say nothing of the scriptural quotations in Pope ' s Universal Prayer , who could dispense with his
" O grave , where is thy victory , O death , where is thy sting- /' from The Dying Christian ? Who would condemn Thomson for the triumphant assertion in his Hymn , that
cc the Great Shepherd reigns , And his unsuffering kingdom yet will come" ? If the critic mean that his author ha 9 carried this peculiarity to an excess , of course he is right , for every excess is a blemish . But he seems to speak in a niore general and unqualified
manner . Art . II . HalVs Sermon on Ryland . There is no small resemblance between the styles of our Dr . Dwight and Robert Hall . In both there is a study of striking diction and rolling sentences . Both depend for much of their popularity on the exuberance of
their imagination , and the copiousness and splendour with which they illustrate every subject in hand . Neither of them is remarkable for very valuable new and original views of truth , all their attempts at originality being-ingenious , and little more . The minds of both have been enriched with
classical learning , and with a very wide range of general information . The critic ' s correction of the Doctor an his paragraph on the Roman Republic is superfluous . There is a fair antecedent to the pronoun they in the word patriots .
The two examples pointed out as faulty in p . 8 . of the Sermon , would bear defending , if very closely tried by the rules of English analysis . With respect to the preeept about anger in Ephes . iv . 2 (> , I do not think " the ease has been mistaken / ' in respect to that particular text , so much as it has been difficult to reconcile
it with another preeept by the same apostle , in which anger seems to be altogether forbidden .
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Obituury . " The ill-governed zeal m the more ^ c ^^ e advoda ^ 4 f ^ ^ tarmnism , " - 'W high-i $ noticed in biiti ' af tlrese articles ^ is a ftiult Kule khow ^ in America . Out principal defect has lain in the antagonist extreme .
Intelligence . President Tefferson , I may be permitted to fill up the picture here sketched of himself by this illustrious man , with some strokes from the pen of one of his many recent public eulogists , and who wrote too from intimate personal knowledge .
" It is hi retirement , " said Judge Johnson of South Carolina , " that true greatness waits to be exhibited . In the world , man may rise superior to others \ here > he rises superior to himself .
" Did time now permit us to visit the hospitable mansion which so long sheltered and dignified his retirement , I should beg leave first to conduct you to the generous hall of the Philosopher of Monticello , crowded by the
visitors who paid homage to his virtues : thence to that library , whose shelves once groaned beneath the congregated learning of every age and language , now , alas ! stripped by his necessities : —thence to the
lengthened vista and shaded grotto , sacred to contemplation and to social converse ; thence into the laboratory , where wholesome exercise was elegantly combined with practical ingenuity : thence to the scenes of agricultural and scientific experiment , where curiosity and science were made the ministering handmaids to the tfood of
mankind : thence to the last great work of a great and good man ever intent on the service of his felloemen , the rising edifices of the greatest
literary institution ever projected m America . It was the daughter of his old age ; its promotion was the last great care of his life , and its success , among the last lingering wishes that connected him with the world .
44 But ironi this and nil other objects I would hasten to lead you to a scene possessing an interest exceeding all these . I would conduct you to the nursery ; there to behold the veneiable grandyirc ; him who has filled ^ o conspicuous a place in the lustoiy o the age 5 to whom the most di g" | lie ( and honourable employments l ^
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748 Critical St / nopzis of the Monthly Repimtort / jfbr March ^ 182 $ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 748, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/48/
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