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encottntJ&red him m defence of dissent . It is extracted from the ' Gentleman ' s Magazine , * voL i . p . 500 . < c JO * Johnson *—In adhering to the religion of * he Statfc ,- && by law established our Implicit Obedience becomes our duty . " - : •¦ .. .
v This enli g htened opinion is embellished with various epithets , such as " fi > ol , " " odious wench / ' &c , bestowed on a young lady whose apostacy had excited his wrath , and who had recently given up a fortune of 100 , 000 / ., in consequence of having : a conscience ; biit he brings forward no further argument . We recpmmend all his numerous and wholesale admirers , and humble students , to read this characteristic pamphlet . HL
Great Astronomical Discoveries lately made by Sir John Herschel at the Cape of Good Hope . f This . is . $ clever joke , but executed in a manner that gives us a melancholy feeling , from the evident demonstration of powers in the writer of a superior order . He is thrown awa y by circumstances ; we can hardly think he would voluntarily hav # thrown his abilities away in this production . If he had be ?^ aui te serioitt , he could not have written a finer and raore ^ po ^ cally impressive in trod uctio it . It thus commences : — . „
" It is impossible to contemplate any great Astronomical' discovery witfraut feelings closely allied to a sensation of awe , and tie&rtytftkili to those with which a departed spirit may be supposed to diiooror thm unknown realities of a future state . Bound by the irre * oeaWe , 4 * W 8 of nature to the globe on which we live ; creatures * close shuVup . iq / infinite expanse ; ' it seems like acquiring a fearful supernaJ ^^/ powfr , rff hen any of the remote and mysterious works of the Creator ; yiel ^ Xrijtyite to aur curiosity . It seems almost a presumptuous usurpation of joqwere
denied us by the divine will , when man , in the prjtde and connqenoe of his skill , steps forth , far beyond the apparently natural'fcoundaly ' of his privileges , and demands the secrets and familiar fello ^ rship' of other worlds . We are assured , that when the immortal phllosrijiheTy to whom mankind is indebted for the thrilling wonders now first-n&bde kilowfei , had at length adjusted his new and stupendous apparatus with a certainty of success , he solemnl y paused several hours before he commenced his observations , that ne might prepare his own mind for discoveries which he knew would fill the minds of myriads of his fellow-men with astonishment , and secure his name a bright , if not transcendent conjunction with that of his venerable father , to all posterity . "—P . J , 2 . .
It is too bad , after this and sundry grave pages of science , to work it doVn tq " engravings of lunar animals ; and dth&obfeetM , " which ar ^ " accurate copies of drawings taken In thfc observatory ! " And at page 57 we aie favoured with an account of some fine lunar sh # 3 py <\ Hth a humane exultation in the fac ^ of not having als * discovered apy figures in blue aprons , with rolled-up
sleeves , in their vicinity .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/61/
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