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can scarcely be appreciated but by those who identify Mr . Vincent with the eminent musician and composer , who is elsewhere alluded to in thiss book . Much of what passes for shining musical talent , neither commands nor deserves respect for itself or its possessor . His does ; because his musical character is his own character ; the same genuine simplicity , and total absence of every species of affectation , trick , pretension , or conventionalism ; the same inwrought and all pervading truthfulness ; the same fancy , feeling " , and sensibility , working in harmony with an acute and discursive intellect ; the same appreciation , which must ever imply a kindred spirit , of poetic beauty , scientific combination , and the nobler kinds of artistical power , and the same utter negation of competitive littleness in the absorbing
sense of the pure , refined , and good , whether contemplated in itself or in its influences on human enjoyment and improvement . Truly he holds , in head , heart , and hand , God ' s patent of nobility ; and let his character be the stamp on his maxim , to give it currency through the world . Probatum eat .
September opens with a Concw ad Venator en , to which we say amen most heartily . In October there are some excellent observations on keeping a diary , which is strongly recommended to the young . f All young persons should devote a few minutes in putting down upon paper the principal occurrences of the day , and as often as possible their thoughts upon those events ; and while doing this they should write in as clear and intelligible
language as possible . Few teachers have any notion of the good account to which this practice may be turned in schools , always provided that the child is left entirely to himself , that his diary is as free as his thoughts , except by an occasional , unobtrusive , and iincommenting inspection . The diary may become the depository ( who can tell of what importance hereafter ) of a thousand stray scraps of information , observation , and reflection , which else might be blown out of the mind as lightly as they wore wafted into it . There , too , will be found the surest indications
of the pupil ' s character , and of the intellectual or moral effect which instruction is producing upon him . Habits of accurate thought and expression will be formed which arc of inestimable wortli . This plan has been tried , with delightful success , in the Academic Institution at I Ian well , conducted by Mr . Kmerton , a prospectus of which appeared in our number for September last Nor does the practice belong more to school education than to that self-education which then commences , but which should continue through life . If honestly done , this would be real biography , and a very different sort of thing from the poor shreds and patches of external event which are continually put forth under that designation . A few entire and faithful records would soon pour light into the dark regions of morals and metaphysics . The writers might be martyrs , but never the memory ol
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152 Adam the Gardener .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1834, page 152, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2630/page/68/
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