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a plain recommendation ; but the parent , conscious of a disagreement of opinion , adduces abundance of reasons which are no reasons at all . If the young folks are silent , or can turn the conversation , it is well ; but we could not much blame them if they were urged to reply , or wonder if argument led to resistance , or at least took away all the grace of compliance . Such cases we have seen , and were forcibly reminded of the king of the
beasts with his four strong reasons for appropriating the four quarters of the prey . If such parents , if parents in general , were aware of the unquiet thoughts thus stirred up , they would be equally careful to cherish right reason in themselves and their children ; or if unable to do this , they would be wise to rule by authority and affectton alone , and attempt no more to qse reason as a bond of union . Alas ! how much uneasiness arises in families
from disputes originating in mistake , and carried on in misunderstanding If among those who are thus divided , or who fret under the yoke which they have no wish to cast off , every individual were enabled to perceive where the exact difference lies—if each were able to make his words correspond with his ideas , and to govern his ideas by right reason , all would find that they had been perplexed in a mist which made a mole-hill appear like a mountain , exalted dwarfish difficulties into gigantic , and displayed imaginary obstacles while it concealed real perils . This chilling influence withdrawn , they would rejoice once more in the sunshine of peace , and hail the brightened flow of genial sympathies .
It would give us much satisfaction to assist any who have suffered from such perplexities and delusions , either in the individual pursuit of truth , or in the more melancholy case to which we have just adverted . We shall hereafter proceed to describe some of the phantoms by which we have been
deluded or terrified , which for ages enslaved the noble faculty of reason , and sat like an incubus upon the nations , till the great enchanter arose who put it in the power of the weakest to keep them aloof , and of the most timid to chase them away . V .
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Dr . Whately is already known and hi g hly esteemed , not onl y for writings on Theological subjects , but also for his valuable treatises on Logic and Rhetoric . The volume to which we now solicit the attention of our readers will sustain his reputation , and merits the attentive perusal of every biblical student . Its peculiar merit consists , not in propounding important novelties , which in the science of theology can scarcely be now-a-days
expected , but in bringing together , and setting forth in a vigorous and lucid style , many valuable truths which are too much neglected by those who have to instruct the public in theological matters . We do not mean to imply * bat his work contains nothing new , nothing put in a novel and striking point of view—the reverse is the case , as the sequel of our remarks will shew ; but merel y to apprize our readers that the praise we allot to the work arises rather from its useful tendency than its novel character * In one view , Dr . Whately
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526 Whatelys Essays on the Writings of St . Pau l *
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. WHATELV ' S ESSAYS ON THE WRITINGS OF 6 T . PAUX ,. *
* Essays on some of the Difficulties of the Writings of St . Paul , and in other Parts of the New Testament . By RichanJ Whately , J > , D ,, Principal of St . Alban ' * College , Oxford , and late Fellow of Oriel College .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 526, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/6/
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