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CRITICAL. NOTICES.
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the houses are better ventilated , and the people are better fed and better clothed , than in any other city in the world . To trace the influence of improved condition of the people in modifying the character of the ancient diseases of that people , is a task well worthy of the philosophic physician ; it would be most interesting and instructive ; if some of the members of the
Board of Health would but undertake it , it would be to the full as dignified , although it might-not be as easy , as that which they have officially notified they have allotted to themselves in case the enemy should come which they have been appointed by government to fight , namely , to write on the door of any person who is attacked by the disease a conspicuous mark ( Sick ) , and on the door of a person who is convalescent another
conspicuous mark ( Caution ) . They are clearly on the wrong scent . The < lemon of contagion has taken possession of them body and soul . Any men who should be empowered to do , and who should actually do , what they have announced it is their intention to do , would rapidly convert the mildest disease in the whole catalogue of Nosology into the most virulent and mortal plague . But , thank God , they cannot carry their intentions into effect .
There is too much sense in the general body of medical men ; there is too much sense in the people . But the exhibition afforded by the Report of the Board of Health is a fresh illustration of the hand which government usually makes of it , when it , really attempts . any thing for the good of the people !
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THEOLOGY .
Art . I . —A Vindication of Dissent from , the Church of England , extracted from the Meriting * , and in the f iords , of many Eminent />« - vinea of the Established Church . By James Manning ; - Senior Minister of the United Congregations of Protestant Dissenters in Exeter . London : Hunter . 1831 .
The amiable and excellent compiler jrfthis painphlet rests from his labours The following extract , from the Preface shews the spirit which he uniformly evinced , and which both attracted and deserved the respect of good men . " The Editor is happy in an acquaintance with many of the clergy whose character reflects honour on their profes-
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sion . They have his best wishes ; and he says , in the language of Holy Writ , * Grace , mercy , and peace , lje multiplied upon them ! ' This is a sacrifice to truth and friendship ; and he will never scruple to go a little out of his way to perform so sacred and pleasing a rite *
" The object of this publication is to vindicate the Dissenters , by shewing what is the judgment of many learned dignitaries , and of some of the greatest ornaments of the Church , with regard to a revisal and alteration of its religious services , in consequence of the changes which have been produced in men ' s religious opinions by that great innovator * Time . The testimonies produced arc bo numerous ami so strong ,. that it will not , it is imagined , be easy for persons
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Vritical Notices . —Theological . 781
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1831, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2603/page/57/
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