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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE.
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Our limits will not allow us to do justice , by longer extracts , to this interesting volume , which we recommend to our readers as by much the most full and clear account which has yet appeared of New South Wales , and of the objects to be kept in view by persons proposing to settle there .
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Art . X . — The Correspondence and Diary of Philip Doddridge , D . D . Edited by J . D . Humphreys , Esq . Vol . IV . Colburn and Bentley .
1830 . Our extended notices of the three preceding volumes of this work render it unnecessary for us to say more , on the appearance of the present , than that the interest of the , Correspondence rises as it becomes more expressive of the stability of the author ' s friendships , and of the matured excellence of his mind .
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Art . XI— The First Lesson Book for Sunday-Schools . Printed for the Sunday-School Society . A spelling-book on the Hamiltonian system ! «< With double translation" ? Not exactly , but pure Hamiltonian . " How so" ? You learn to spell by learning to read , and you are strongly advised to learn to read before you learu
your letters . A b , ab , and e b , eb , are gone to the shades , aud there is to be no such thing as a column of hard words left in the land . It is certain that spellr ing is a great mystery . Very few people can spell but the printers ; and there is no reason to suppose that every einbryo printer has had a double portion of hard words before he was breeched . Then at young ladies' schools in the
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MISCELLANEOUS CORRESPONDENCE .
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Inquiry respecting- Continental Anti ~ trinitarians . To the Editor , Sir , In Dr . Toulmin's Life of Socinus , pp . 275 , 276 , I learn that " the posterity " of many of the Sociuiaus who were banished from Poland , " still subsist" in <( Silesia , Braudenbiugti , and Prussia ;"
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last generation , how many coinings , of many-syllabled words were " got by : ro < te" evvery day ! and , as ajll the worm knows , very £ w of those ladies could spell . Practice and association , it seems ,, do their work in tbis as in most other things , and people must learn to spell as / they learn to talk , and to walk , aud to Jive , by trying , aud not by artificial arrangement and verbose instruction . For this reason we recommend the First
Lesson Book , where the words , from the very beginning , are grouped into sentences , — " an ox , " " go up , " «« do it . " No matter how short , or how slight the connexion ; it is found by experience that words so arranged are more attractive and better retained , —that a child cau walk better , in short , upon planks than upon stepping-stoBea . As to the exer cution , we have ouly to say , that " Lay
not in bed" is a rotten plank , and that we doubt the expediency of introducing into a First Lesson-Book many abstract and pious injunctions . " Do not go on the ice , " is well enough ; but " Keep the laws of God , then peace of mind wiU be thy lot , " is out of the reach of a child who is travelling through page the ninth . " The fear of the . Lord is a spring of life , to keep thee from the snares of the bad . " Who would
undertake to explain to the lowest class of a Sunday-school ( or of any school ) what " a spring of life" is , aud how it is to keep them from the " snares of the bad" ? We should like to see it done according to the formula on the back of
the book , and in pursuance of the recommendation to teachers , to " ascertain if the child understands the meaning of every word he reads-. " in the mean time , let a pencil be struck through the words , or let nobody under ten years of age be permitted to read them .
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and again , " the remains of this unfortunate community are at tbis day ( 1777 ) dispersed through different countries , particularly in the kingdoms of Prussia , the electorate of BranpVaburgh , and the United Provinces , where they lie more or less concealed , and hold their religious assemblies in a clandestine manner . " In " Poland" also , Dr . Ttiuluiiu asserts , that Socinian churches were in
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Miscellaneous Correspondence * 59
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1831, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2593/page/59/
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