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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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respects the taste of the English public , who prefer getting drunk and beating their wives ; as to the policy of making Sunday < c a day of rejoicing" only , and leaving it to every one's taste to divert himself as best he might , it may be suggested , that where competition of every kind is so immense , and the lore of gain
so engrossing , as it is at this time in England , a day of rejoicing , divested of its sacred character , would be hustled out of life , and become a mere day of business . The holiday would be lost if it ceased to be to the great majority a holyday . The Memoirs conclude ( as memoirs of a single lady should always conclude ) with her marriage ; she was married late in life , and in an arm chair / Her husband , it appears , was still older ,
and of the three things to be vowed , the lady avers she could safely vow two . " From my knowledge of the character of Mr . M . I honoured him now ; from a knowledge of myself I was certain I should obey him when I was his wife . " If any young lady of the present school doubt the correctness of the quotation , extraordinary as it must appear , we refer to the very words , Vol . II . p . 304 , where it will also be found that the said Mr .
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Sketch of Dr . Channing-. ( From the American Monthly Magazine , January 1830 . ) The following sketch will , it is thought , interest our readers . It is obviously the composition of a believer , but not a bigoted one , in the popular theology .
" The rank which this celebrated divine has lately taken as an essayist , and the interest excited in his writings abroad , have made him a conspicuous object of curiosity . He is probably the greatest intellect amongst us , and as such we have thought a slight sketch of his person and manners , though given with no advantage but those of a general observer , might not be uninteresting to our readers .
" Dr . Channing ' s appearance out of the pulpit is not prepossessing . He is below the middle stature , and of the slightest possible frame . Constant i 11—
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M . was—a whirlwind 1 On the whole , the Memoirs are amusing , and the style reminds us every now and then of ' Our Village . "
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Art- IX —A Summary View of the Principle of Population . By the Rev . T . R . IMalthus . 12 mo . pp .
This pamphlet is an " Extract from an article which was contributed by Mr . Malthus to the Supplement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica . " It is by far the best statement of his theory that we are acquainted with . The subject still
occupies so much attention ; it really possesses so much importance ; and there is so much mistake , perversion , or misrepresentation , both "by the opponents and the advocates of the author ' s peculiar tenet , that this compendium is very convenient for those who demur to the
expense required for procuring , or the time needful for studying , the full-length Essay . It is an excellent and very cheap substitute for that work ; and , in our opinion , more luminous than its principal .
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ness of late years has reduced even his natural proportions , and when seen in the street , wrapped with a shrinking closeness from the air , and pursuing his way with the irresolute step and the subdued countenance of an invalid , it is difficult to reconcile his appearance with
the prodigious energy of his writings . In the pulpit he is another man . The cloud of anxiety passes from his face as he rises . The contracted expression ordinarily visible about his mouth gives place to a detailed and serene calmness . His fine eye expands and brightens , and the whole character of his face is one of
the most pure and elevated humanity . A hearer who saw him for the first time there , if indeed lie remembered any thing but the elevated beauty of his thoughts , would go away impressed with his noble dignity , and the air of calm power in his look and action . His face itself \ a diminutive , smaller even than u
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408 Afiscelhtneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1830, page 408, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2585/page/48/
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