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We hope Mr . Montgomery may be mistaken in the somewhat boding conclusion of "the Pelican island , " and that this song is far from being his last . To his highly cultivated , pure and devotional mind , we are already largely indebted . He has , without the slightest symptom of wavering or decline , consecrated his high powers , from first to last , to the cause of religion , liberty , and virtue . He has never in any degree condescended to
imitate what is unworthy , either in matter or manner , in the most popular poets of the time ; but has preserved a dignified simplicity of which we have few examples . His faults are at least his own , and are not contemptible affectations of the faults of others . If , in his religious compositions , we sometimes trace sentiments with which we cannot accord ; enough
of the Moravian spirit of love is mixed with them to mitigate the sense of this difference . , It is refreshing to think of such poets as James Montgomery , and delightful to know that neither for themselves nor others have they laboured in vain .
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Art . III . —A Visit to the Seven Churches of Asia , with an Excursion into Pisidia , containing Remarks on the Geography and Antiquities of those Countries , a Map of the Author ' s Routes , and numerous Inscriptions By the Rev . F . V . J . Arundell , British Chaplain at Smyrna . 1828 . The publisher informs us that Mr . Arundell , when he transmitted the manuscript of his work to England , did not feel confident that the friends to whose care he committed it , would think it fit for the public eye , and
consequently did not bestow that careful revision upon it which he would have done had he been certain that it would be published . This may serve to soften the rigour of severe criticism , and we are not disposed to be over fastidious in our remarks upon the appearance of a child which has been sent abroad without that minute attention to its dress which its parent might
have been inclined to bestow upon it ; but without incurring the risk of being thought too censorious , we presume we may take the liberty to hint in a general way , that many MS . journals and accounts of voyages and travels , which are delightfully pleasing to the fire-side circles of the immediate friends of the travellers , are not calculated to afford much information
or amusement to the public . When a traveller gives the world an account of his peregrinations , we naturally conclude that he has something to tell us that we did not know before ; that he has seen and noticed things which former travellers had either not seen or disregarded ; that he has settled some disputed or uncertain points in the geogra phy of the places throug h which he has passed ; made some discoveries , or illustrated what was before known of their
antiquities ; enlarged the boundaries of natural science , or at least added something to our old stock : or , if none of these , that he has been a close observer of the manners and habits of the people ; can tell us whether any or what improvements have been made in the state of society , and illustrate his observations by pleasing anecdotes . We cannot say that we find Mr . ArundelPs book abounding in any of these requisites . During the last and the preceding centuries , it appears that it has been the custom for the consuls and chaplains of the Levant Company at Smyrna
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Review . —ArundeWs Visit to the Seven Churches . 39 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 397, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/37/
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