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which breathe * through every line of those prayers that , but a year before , his pen had traced . "—Pp . 125 , 131 . On a life and character full of anomalies , ministering food for interminable speculation , opening sources of feeling which can never be exhausted , —we must , at least on the present occasion , forbear to touch .
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Art . Vlir . —The Orade of Health and Long- Life ; or Plain Rules for the Attainment and Preservation of Health , fyc . By Medicus . London : Sherwood , 1830 . Woe to physicians ! The people are beginning to take their own cases into their own hands . Every man is fast
becoming his own physician . We take the multitudinous volumes which have succeeded Buchan , and which , if they have not caused his name to be forgotten , have sadly shaken his authority , to establish this point beyond the necessity of further proof . A few years ago , the authority of the Domestic Medicine was absolute : there was no rival which even
so much as pretended to dispute its dogmas , much less to share its glory . Now , the Treatises on Diet , the Manuals for Dyspeptics , the Arts of Invigorating Health , the Peptic Precepts , the Oracles of Health , outnumber even the cook ' s own oracles , and nearly equal , long as it is , the very physician ' s catalogne of diseases . We cannot presume to say whether fewer horses are lamed in
consequence of every man ' s becoming his own farrier ; but we are pretty sure that fewer stomachs would be deranged if people would exercise a little common sense as to the quantities and qualities of the food they put into them : and we seriously believe that life might in all cases be prolonged , and in many cases be more than doubled , if what is already
ascertained relative to the laws of the animal economy , and to the juvantia and the l&dentia , were part and parcel of the public mind . We therefore hail every such work as the Oracle of Health , as a new indication that people are beginning to pay some rational attention to their physical and mental health and vigour : aud with regard to the present little volume , we may safely say , that while it is
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more plain and intelligible than most oracles , it is scldomer delusive ; that it ' sometimes , amidst the number and apparent contradictoriness of it * enunciations , it leaves the inquirer in doubt what to do , it nevertheless supplies him with general principles which are commonly sound and sufficiently obvious to prevent serious mistake , wherever there is any
portion of common sense ; that it suggests many useful hints , points out many dangers not obvious to all , though manifest to some , and inculcates many precepts of excellent virtue , which , like other truths not altogether medical , it may be useful even for the learned occasionally to bring to mind , seeing they are considerably more easy to be understood than to be practised .
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Art . IX . — The Grammatical and Pronouncing Spelling Book . On a New Plan . By Ingram Cobbin . The novelty of the plan of this little work appears to consist in the connexion between the mechanical effort of spellnig , the intellectual exertion of
comprehending the words of our language , and the pleasant relaxation of looking at the cuts by which they are illustrated . If the method of teaching to spell by a spelling book ( we question whether it be a good one ) be adopted , it is certainly desirable to enliven the dullest of all
tasks by introducing the greatest practicable variety among the ideas engaged in the process .
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128 Critical Notices . —Mhcellaneous .
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Art . X . —Rich ' s Short-hand , improved hy Dr . Doddridge . Edited by the liev . S . Wood , B . A . London : R . Hunter . This system of Short-hand is well known to be peculiarly adapted for
theological purposes , and to have bceu long and extensively used by divines . Those who have occasion for an acquaintance with it , to enable them to decipher the MSS . of others , and those who are disposed to employ it in the composition of their own , should feel obliged to Mr . Wood for the trouble and cost at which
he has brought out this neat and useful edition . It is a beautiful specimen of lithography .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/56/
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