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were to sleep out the hot part of the day , being lulled by their note through vacancy of mind . They would suppose that we were like cattle , who come down at mid-day to drink at the stream , and fall asleep . But if they see us conversing , and passing them by , like the Syrens ,
unfascinated , they will be pleased with us , and will , perhaps , confer on us the gift wliich they have from the gods to bestow upon men . ' * Have they such a gift V asked Phaedrus , * for I never heard of it . ' 4 A lover of the Muses / replied Socrates , ' ought not to be ignorant of this . It is said that the cicadae weTe men , before the Muses existed ; but when
the Muses were born , and song commenced , some of the men of that time were so engrossed by delight , that they passed their . timein singing , and neglected to take food until they died . From them the race of the cicadae are sprung ; and possess the gift from the Muses , not to need food or drink , but to sing continually until they die , and afterwards going to the abodes of the Muses , report to them who among mortals gives them honour / Socrates and Pheedrus agreed accordingly to continue their conversation , and that the subject should be , what constituted good speaking and writing . ( To be concluded in the next number . )
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420 National Immorality Cured .
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We have the most important intelligence to announce to our readers . In fourteen years from the present time , ignorance , vice , and misery will in all probability have ceased throughout the land . Possibly the great millennium may not arrive so soon ; but we shall be favoured with a smaller millennium , destined exclusively for this country . A genius has appeared among us—the glad tidings are revealed ; and the marvellous power of the mighty scheme can only be compared with its wondrous simplicity . The eager anxiety of the reader shall not be detained another
moment . The new light is cast upon our favoured island by a slender pamphlet , entitled 'A New and Practical System of Instruction , capable by means of a powerful and extraordinary stimulus of effecting the reformation of all mankind . ' It is no wonder that the author should have to apologize for ' the great haste ** with which the pamphlet has been drawn up . In such a case , delay were a crime ; and we must entreat so lofty a mind , no longer to * feel grieved' ( as in the preface ) € at being obliged to carry the following pages so soon to the press ; but the exigencies of the country / as he very properly remarks , s demand tLeir immediate publication . '
4 ft Calmly then , or as calml y as such exciting tidings will permit , do we now attempt to unfold the precious tissue . Three portions ; three simple yet mystic parts , shine out as components of this wondrous whole . In three parts , we say , does it appear to our purblind eyes ; for our author is far above all sublunary system . Faithfully shall we quote the illuminator ' s words ; for we would
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NATIONAL IMMORALITY CURED IN FOURTEEN YEARS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1834, page 420, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2634/page/38/
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