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The method of instruction , of which we h ^ ive thus endeavoured to brin * the leading peculiarities before our readers , has already attracted raucii attention in Scotland , and been introduced into many schools in that country
both public and private . Our most earnest wish is , that those who live south of the Tweed may not long be behind their northern neighbours in this important respect , and that a mode of teaching , which is at once so attractive and so efficacious , may be adopted wherever there are minds to be informed , and souls to be trained up in the love and practice of goodness .
We have already mentioned that a series of books has been compiled expressly for the use of the Edinburgh Sessional School , * and , if we may hazard a conjecture , by the same excellent and sensible person , to whom we are indebted for the method itself . We have looked through these books , and can recommend them with confidence to the attention of all those who are in any way engaged in the education of children , whether of the poor or the rich . In the Old and New Testament Biographies the references are
indeed , i > n our opinion , not sufficiently specific ; in some parts of the Second Book the language should have been of a simpler and less elevated character ; and there is occasionally a dash of orthodoxy , which might as well have been omitted ; but these are slight deductions from the merit of these books , which , as a whole , contain a more judicious selection of articles , and are altogether better adapted to their purpose t , han any others that we know .
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No . IV . " Watchman ., what of the night ? Watchman , what of the night ? The Watchman said , The morning cometh , and also the night . " Isaiah xxi . 11 , 12 . The times of Reformation are , we begin to believe , at last approaching . Long have we looked for them , and often have we been disappointed . In hope , struggles had been made against hope , till doubt and despair began to usurp the place of fortitude and confidence . A new era has , however ,
commenced ; something has already been gained , and more we see promised in the signs of the times . . And did not indications , in various quarters , give us reason to hope for better days , yet the courage which the wellwishers of their race have drawn from recent events , could not fail to secure for their efforts an ample reward of good to their fellow-countrymen . Courage begets hope and confidence , and hope and confidence success He that has gained one battle is best fitted to gain others ; and as victory leads on to victory , gq defeat is followed by defeat . Independently of these
* First Book , 3 d . ; Second Book , 1 * . ; Old-Testament Biography , in the Forrq of Questions , with References to Scripture for the Answers , 6 c / . ; New-Testament ditto , 6 d . ; The National School Collection ; consisting of Religious apd Moral Instrtjction , a Selection of Fables , Descriptions of Animals , Places , Manners , &c , Historical Passages , and other Instructive and Entertaining Information for Early
Youth , 3 s . ; Instructive Extracts , ; comprising ReJigious and Moral Instruction ; Natural Hisjtpry ; Elementary Sqienfe ; Accounts of Remarkable Persons , Places , Mannpis , Arts , and Incidents : Tiritfi ^ Seleptjop of Passages from the British Poets , and various Article ^ never befo re published , 3 * , 6 d . These books may all be had at Duncan ' s , ir > Paternoster-Jlovv ,
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386 Tfie Watchman .
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THE WATCHMAN .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 386, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/18/
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