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      This eminent man has been long before the public . He is , in every point of view , worthy of notice ; but the circumstance that he was strenuously opposed to those sentiments which we deliberately think to be promulgated in the New Testament , renders it most interesting to inquire upon what ground he contended against them . While we cheerfully award to an adversary all the praise that we deem his due , we cannot be unconcerned about his

      censure ; and the ., more we discern in him symptoins of conscientiousness , and the greater the ability with which he advocates the cause of religion , the more we are grieved to be the victims of his hostility . Robert Hall was an illustrious instance of the union of rare intellecJtuaLendowm ^^ of mind , and susceptibility of feeling , with profound humility and ardent piety . He was qualified , in all respects , to act a leading

      part among the most elevated classes of society , and might have obtained in the establishment any preferment to which he aspired ; but he thought it more honourable to remain conscientiously attached as pastor to a congregation of baptists , a sect neither numerous , nor , in a secular point of view ^ distinguished . The splendour of his eloquence attracted to his public services , during

      his settlement at Cambridge , University men in considerable numbers , who , under ordinary circumstances , would have fancied themselves polluted by entering a meeting-house ; and when , from hits popularity ; measures were agitated for suppressing so gross a breach of academical strictness , Dr . Mansel , master of Trinity College , stopped them in their incip ient stages , alleging that he too would be an occasional hearer , if he did not deem it

      somewhat incompatible with his public station . The writings of Hall are mot few , occupying six large octavos , but his ^ great . reputation » j > u . L . pJt his own denomjnation at least , is derived from some half-dozen discourses published by " himself . Strictly speaking , perhaps , his great name results from the effect produced by his displays in the pulpit ; but his praise is in the mouths of many who never had the privilege of listening to him , so that we are justified in speaking of him as a writer . His reputation will not , however , be at all injured by viewing him in this character , for it is among his many excellencies ; that what with

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      THE ^ UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .

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      Vol . II , S

      On The Character And Writing^ Of Robert Hall.

      ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITING ^ OF ROBERT HALL .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2621/page/1/