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with any present duty , she need not attempt it ; the improvement of her mind is to be a means , and not an end ; a preparation , not a hindrance , to the active business of life . We would not entice any woman to rush out of her sphere , and sjiut herself up to study eight , ten , or twelve hours a day ; but how few there are , of unmarried women especially , how very few ,
who might not , if they made it an object , command a quiet hour or two every day ; and how much would that hour , if it were but one , perseveringly applied , do for them in the pursuits that require undivided attention ! May we not hint by the way , that the " Principia" itself is not more impatient oif interruption than one of Scott ' s novels ? With the exception of the abstract sciences , there is nothing in the course which we have pointed out
that may not be interwoven with the ordinary engagements of domestic life ; Mitford and Gibbon , Rapin and Hume , may be read in the drawing-room ; Hartley and Locke will condescend to eatch a quiet hour by a sleeping father or child ; Cicero bears the prattle of infants at least as well as Lord Byron or Moore ; and we have it upon authority , that the most refractory passage in a Greek chorus does not unhinge a lady's temper at all more
than trimming her bonnet . Lastly , it has been said , that f * learning is not becoming to woman ; and that it makes her conceited , pedantic , and vain . " To the first clause we should venture to say , that if learning be requisite for the discharge of her most important duties , a sensible woman will forego the charm of ignorance ( and the admiration of fools along with it ) ; and to
the last , that " it is false" Many women have been vain of their acquirements , and many have been vain enough , Heaven knows , without those acquirements ; but never—while there is pause and effect in the mental and moral world—never will the conscientious attempt to discharge a duty , to prepare for the business of life , or to improve a privilege , render the mind ( whether of man or woman ) vain , conceited , or proud .
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Minute criticism is by most persons deemed tiresome , yet it is occasionally necessary , both in seeking truth and refuting error . That the word under consideration has been used , and continues to be used , as an argument for the Trinity is well known ; and though it has been satisfactorily shewn that the idiom of the Hebrew language admits the use of plurals in a
singular sense ; though the wore } might be used as well to prove four , or a hundred gods , as three ; and though many of the most learned defenders of the doctrine , including Cajvin himself , regard the argument from it as untenable j yet } X is again ap 4 again brought forward and relied upon by many controversial writers . Jt i » not intended to repeat the arguments on
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ON THE WORD CD'H ^ tf .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1831, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2600/page/26/
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