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interest to those beyond his immediate acquaintance ; it is the portrait of an Unknown claiming attention , ( if , indeed , it can claim attention at all , ) by the beauty of the subject alone , and the skill < of the artist . Two particulars in the sketch before us reader it worthy of notice ; it commemorates an individual who had attained to an uncommon age ,
and enjoyed full vigour of mind to the last ; and it sets before us the example of a Christian physician . The prevalence of scepticism amongst medical men has not escaped notice ; it is no longer quot Medici tot Athei , because infidelity , like the small-pox , has softened its horrors ; but if we except ( and it is a doubtful exception ) the men of the law ,
there is not so little faith in proportion to the numbers in any class of society . Why is this ? lit is idle to say that professional habits Interfere with religious observances , or that infidelity is a fashion with medical men ; the question remains to be answered , " How came it to be a fashion ? " And it is rating the services of the sanctuary high
indeed , to suppose that the voice of the preacher would be heard , where suffering , and pains , and death , and the lamentation of friends , all fail to speak to the heart . The fact is , ( and it is too late to deny it , ) that metaphysical theories , the most contrary to experience , have been tacked to religion , and she aud
they left to straggle together . Incongruities have been perceived , absurdity has been detected , and the Doctor , haviug " too many patients in hand" to sift the case very nicely , shrugs his shoulders , and whispers ' * delusion . " Not such was the venerable Dr . Holyoke . " His attainments were extensive and
varied . He was well versed in the Newtonian philosophy , and iu Natural Science iu general . " He was a good classical scholar , and familiar with the best French and English authors . His practice was at one time so great , that he had attended at every house in the town in which he resided , and was often known to pay a hundred professional visits in the course of the day ; and yet ( says his biographer ) " the subject of
religion had always a paramount interest in . his mind . From serious inquiry and settled conviction * lie was au earnest follower of Jesus Christ /'— - " In disappointment and distress he derived strength and c < ¥ n * olat > ia » ' from afrovfe and from hereafter / and in all the stages aud conditions of bis life still looked forward to the e » d . He made progress in religion his continual aim .
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The principle of piety with him was at no time dead or inert . "—•** He was a constant observer of the external rites of Christianity , believing them to be of divine appointment , and of the most
beneficial tendency . "— < c He believed that an altar to God should T > e erected in every family , and no day was permitted to pass without ? a religious © fferiug in hie own . "— " It is a fact too remarkable to be omitted ia this connexion , that for the last twenty years he made it a rule to read the New Testament , in
Griesbach ' s original text , as often as once in the year , atid that this rule , with ' not more than three or four exceptions , he invariably observed . " The wbole ^ character is of a piece with what we * have quoted , and there is stich distinctness and individuality about it , that when we have read it , we seem to have formed an acquaintance . The remarks ? which Mr . Brazer has made from the
text , ** The memory of the just is blessed , " are appropriate and impressive , and unworthy neither of the subject , nor of the high rank which American preaching has deservedly taken with us ;
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Art . III . —Fragments of the Lyre : a Collection ( % f Modern Fugitive Poems . Enfieid :. published by E . Dowiing , Baker Street ; and sold by N . Altridge , I , Clement ' s Inn , Strand . Pp . 205 t In introducing this little volume to the notice of our readers , we are alike influenced by a wish to serve the avowed
object of the publication , and to recommend , to the lovers of poetry , a pleasant pocket companion . Assailed by misfortune , and struggling with penury , the publisher , at the suggestion and with the kind assistance of his friends , entered upon the work " as an honourable mean of relieving him from his difficulties . " We are glad to hear that he has not been disappointed ; and hope that continued encouragement may ensure the full
accomplishment of his object . The volume consists chiefly of a selection of modern fugitive pieces , from the moat distinguished poets of the day , together with some original compositions of considerable merit , by Mr . R , Busby . It is sufficient , among others , to men * tion the names of Mrs , Heraans , Misses Jewebury , baudon , aud Mitford ,- —Scott , Byron , Bo wring , Barton , Coleridge , Campbell , Croley , Hogg , Kuowle » , Moore , Montgomery , A . A . Watts , &c . &c .
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Critical Noticesm 665
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 665, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/65/
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