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That is , do not open their eyes to the truth ; a direction , the benevoleftce of > phich we take to be very often questionable . The following is a rare specimen of indistinctness , both of thought and expression : * The desire of gain , in itself a laudable and even virtuous feeling , when controlled by prudence and kindness , is thus by commerce made subservient to the happiness of man / If this was penned while half asleep , the author , mutt have afterwards got fairly into a doze , and dreamed or the wisdom of Martha Martin
* As she grew older , she found that we may habitually , if we please , dwell upon pleasant thoughts ; and this experience made Martha one of the wisest of women/—p . 223 , There is no doubt of it . And , amongst men , we question whether Solomon himself could have matched her * The secret is worth an empire . The anecdotes and little stories in this volume are beautifully told , and several of them cannot fail to reach the hearts of adult readers *
while they fill young eyes with tears , We must particularly . mention those of the c African Princess / the * Russian Mushroom Girl / and the ' Breton Farmer / The chapters on ' Swallows / * Flowers / and ' Songs of the People / are distinguished both by interesting facts and by their poetical spirit and adornment . In these portions of the volume our sympathy with the author is entire . And although we know that wherein we differ from him he is the follower of Benthatn , yet we also know that wherein we agree with him and admire him he is the follower of the dictates of his own nature , which , in this publication * brought out amid the bustle of legislative duties most honourably fulfilled , and literary and other avocations most energetically pursued , affords fresh evidence of the versatility of its powers and of its poetical and philanthropic tendencies .
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Hydraulia ; an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water-Work * of London , and the Contrivances for supplying other great Cities in different Ages and Countries . By William Matthews . 8 vo . Simpktn , Marshall , and Co . Mr . Matthews has traced , with laborious research and , indefatigable teal , the means re / orted to in all ages , from Jacob ' s Well to the com *
pletion of the New River water-work * by that great benefactor to posterity , Sir Hugh M ddieton . A portrait ox this excellent man is prefixed , and 4 h * work totitaito * several maps and a diversity of iUuttraiiona , exhibiting the progress of various other plans , as wall as { host for supplying London , from the time of William the Conqueror to the prasenl day . In a subf t ^ dtnt chapter is described by what meant Liverpool , Man-< ft * ter , Bdiftfcuis * , Ghutfow , r # * nock « , < , c . are suppli * £ with * hu Important clement of tubtistentai ^ Ad pr otection . H avis g illoatrated mat has been done in his own country , he proceeds to show the gvoal
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1835, page 690, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2650/page/62/
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