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Deals in adornment—and the blade it wields Is curiously carved and gaily gilt . For me , let what is left of life , if brief Be bright , and let me kindle all its fires—For I am as a rocket , hurled on high , But a few moments to be visible , Which ended , all is dark . ' Vol . ii . pp . 77—80 *
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African Sketches . By Thomas Pringle . This volume consists of two parts : 1 st , Poems , illustrative of South Africa ; and 2 nd , a Narrative of a Residence in South Africa . Of the former we can only say , that they are specimens of pleasant and spirited versification ; the latter we have read with very strong interest . Mr . Pringle was the leader of a band of emigrants from Scotland to Algoa Bay , in the spring of 1 S 20 . His descriptions of their place of
settlement , the expedients to which they were obliged to have recourse , the perils to which they were exposed , and their gradual progress to a prosperous condition , are such as to hold the reader in almost breathless attention . They are a true and graphic * Life in the Wilds . ' And there iB similar simplicity of style and power of description in the account of the authors residence at Cape Town - , though the picture is of so very different a character . The serpents , wild beasts , and Caffers ,
were nothing of annoyances , compared with Lord Charles Somerset . Nor is it possible to read the facts here stated of the conduct of the colonial government towards the aborigines without deep emotions of disgust . The publication of this narrative has been suspended for some years by the honourable occupation of the author as secretary to the African Society , but the delay detracts nothing from its interest , and it may be received as a study for the mature , and an excitement for the young .
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Christian Ethics . By R . Wardlaw , D . D . The Capabilities and Responsibilities of Man , ( A Letter , occasioned by the foregoing . ) By William Youngmtn . There did not appear to us to be any particular occasion for reviewing Dr . Wardlaw ' s lectures , as we had , just before their publication , stated our views of the principle of moral philosophy , in an article on Mr . Blakey ' s historical work , and were anticipating a recurrence to the subject in some remarks ( which we hope to insert next month ) on
Bentham ' s * Deontology . We may , however , apprize our readers of a very acute and able review of those lectures in Mr . Youngman ' s pamphlet . He strikes at the very foundation of Dr . Wardlaw * a theory ( which resolves all morality into the Divine will * irrespectiYe of the tendencies of human nature ) ; vindicates humanity from calumny , and virtue from arbitrariness ; and shows that , according to the words of
Burke , which he uses as a motto to his own statement , * Law itself is only benevolence working by a rule / Emanating from a member of the same religious denomination with l ) r , Wardlaw , this pamp hlet eminently deserves the attention of readers of thai class . It conducts
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1834, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2635/page/70/
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