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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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endeavour , to propagate the farce of Grecian freedom . ' * Would to Heaven that his taleuts had always been as well employed , and that uo other stigma attached to his ** noble name" I We are likewise informed that " one of our most intelligent missionaries , a Mr . Hartly , was shot at Napolidi Romania ; ' * upon
which we have the very judicious and candid remark , * so much for their re gard for religiou . " In the second volume there is a tolerable account of Ali Pacha , intermingled in like manner with trash . There are also some interesting particulars of the Turks and Egyptians , mosques , catacombs , excavations , erapalenients , slave-markets , and pyramids .
Of the Memnouiom at Thebes we have the following description : " It forms three portions of ruin 3 . 1 st . The propyleon , entirely ruinous on the East side , and fallen to within thirty feet on the other side . Battle pieces are represented on it : a hero in his car ,, with bent bow , galloping over men , chariots , &c . ; his two horses springing . Above is a
repetition of the same attitudes . At some distance ruus a wall , of which , to the left , only the foundations remain , but to the right the whole height and half the thickness are still preserved . The great Colossus was placed within three feet of this wall to the left of the entrance , and
racing the propyleon . The pedestal is still in its original position ; part of it is , however , sawed away , and the body of the figure is overturned on its back aud broken into two great masses through the middle ; the head , breast , and arms , forming one fragment . Many fragments are scattered round , among which are
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Additional Remarks on the Nature and Evidences of the Resurrection of Jesus . Letter I . To the Editor . Sib , The doctrine of everlasting life , as exemplified by the resurrection of Christ himself from death to immortality , requires , I am aware , a more full development and illustration than that which
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seen a foot and an arm ; across the line of the forehead is a deep cut , said to have been sawn by the French . The outside is in some parts perfectly polished , and the carving on the head , arms , seat , &c , and the cartouches , in part remain . Without having seen it , this prodigious monument can hardly be conceived . It is without any equal as an instance of what human power can perform . The breadth of the shoulders is
twenty-three feet—of the foot , across the toes , five feet—of the hand , four feet six inches—of the pedestal , seventeen feet four inches—and the length reinaining is twenty-eiglit feet six inches . On the wall to the right is a battle-piecea hero in his car , with bow drawn , horses springing over each other , charioteers in confusion , horses tumbling ,
and men smitten by arrows and falling . Further on is a sea , painted blue , into which men and horses are rushing . On its shore is a numerous army , with spears , aoiie of whom are employed in pulling out the people from the sea . On the wall to the left of the great colonnade , inside the temple , is another battlepiece . A hero in his car , with bow bent , is drawn by two horses rushing over
dead bodies , broken cars , horses , &c . Numbers are flying and looking back . Beyond are the high walls of a city . Below is the gate , and men from thence shooting arrows , hurling stones , and using spears against the assailants . These last are seen tumbling down headlong . Others are mounting a long scaling ladder , protected l ) y shields . —* Vol . II . p . 171 .
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I have submitted to the consideration of your readers . I indulge the hope that it may draw forth the remarks of some of your talented correspondents , as it appears to open a field of inquiry and reflection wnich may afford ample scope for their exercise , and thus a new glory may be thrown around pure Christianity ; or rather , it may be shewn more under its genuine characters , and make nearer approaches to its primitive efficacy . In the mean time h may be incumbent on
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468 Miscellaneous Correspondence .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1830, page 468, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2586/page/36/
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