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The Faculties of Birds . ( Library of Entertaining KildwW ^ e ^ * Wj& hayq here a supplement $ o the \ volumes previously published by the Diffusion Society , on the Architecture and the Domestic Habits of Birds * which forms , with them , a popular and most interesting ornithology ' .
Ihe peculiarities of the sight , hearing , taste , touch , and smell of birds , with their locomotive powers and migratory tendencies , are illustrated by a most entertaining and curious collection of authenticated anecdotes ^ interspersed with observations of the most celebrated natural philosophers . The series on this subject is appropriately concluded , after a chapter ob Instinct , by the Natural Theology of this department of the wofke of the benevolent Creator .
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The Three Pictures ; or a Few Words on Church Rates . By B . H . Draper . The first Picture is a scene from the present state of things ecclesiastical ; the other two belong to an imaginary condition . We extract the second as a specimen of the writer ' s humour . It must not be inferred from it that he is not a warm friend of the * Voluntary Principle / The object of his tract is to show the injustice and absurdity of the present system : , * First Application at the Parsonage for a Rate to support Dissenting
Worship . The Collector enters . ' C . Is the Rev . Mr . T . at home ? 4 Servant . Yes ; what do you want of him ? ' C . I wish to speak with him . * He enters the Hall . » ' T . Well , sir , what is your pleasure ? * C . I called to demand a rate for the support of the dissenting worship * T . Rate ! Who sent you ? 4 C . The claim is authorized by the magistrate .
' T . Indeed ! This is something new . We have been accustomed to claim rates of them for the support of our worship , and to seize their goods , if they would not pay them . Truly , the tables are turned . 1 C . They are , sir . The Whig ministry , before they left office , made an Act , to gratify their old friends , that Churchmen should pay rate * to the Dissenters , for the support of their worship , even , aa the Dissenters had paid rates to the Church . ' T . I am astounded ; can it be so ? Where am I ? It is ours to teceive , and not to pay , rates .
* C . That is what the magistrate said , sir ; that since the Dissenters had supported the Church for so many years , it was now come to the turn of the Church to support the worship of the Dissenters . * T . I shall not pay the rate * * C . Then I must get a warrant , and make you , that ' s all J * T . But I don't approve of their worship .
* C . Nor did they of yours , aad yet you made them pay the rate , 4 T . I never go near their conventicles . C . But you may if you choose , sir . ' T . I tell you again , that I shan ' t pay . ' C . You know , sir , you have granted many a warrant against the Quaker and Dissenters to make them pay rates .
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Griltcitl Nottcek SSI *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1835, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2643/page/71/
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