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over , that the individual who could either inculcate or voluntaril y practice such rules , could have no degree of eloquence in his nature .
Old Toby ' s Addresses to his Friends .
This little book contains a series of good-natured sermons , or moralities , in the shape of an old man ' s reflections and conversations while seated in his easy chair . They bear a close resemblance ^ both in style and spirit , to the mixture of good sense , humanity , economy , trite proverb , and we must add , " twaddle" of poor Richard ' s sayings .
The Biblical Companion , a Comprehensive Digest of the Princi p les and Details of Biblical Criticism ^ Interpretation , Theology , History , Natural Science , % c . By William Carpenter .
This able , erudite , and elaborate production , fully exemplifies its important title in every branch . We have previously had the satisfaction of reviewing other publications of the same class , by-Mr Carpenter , and have only to add that the present volume is the most complete " companion" to the study of the Bible that has yet appeared . We recommend it accordingly both to laymen and clergymen , and certainly no " order " of men need it more than the latter .
A Compendium of Natural Philosophy ; being a Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation . By John Wesley , A . M . A new edition , edited by Robert Mudie . We do not see the good of multiplying compilations of this kind . It is going again and again over the same ground that Derhum , and Tucker , and Ray , and Sharon Turner , and Mather , andPatey'te compilations , and Brougham ' s compilations from Paley , and various theologians and natural philosophers , have all gone over before , leaving us the results of their labours . What we want is a concise and masterly digest of all these works , with the addition
of the latest discoveries in science . The present work foils very short of this ; neither are we sure in any case that the plaa of teaching religion and of conveying feelings of adoration and love towards the jDeity is half so well accomplished by drawing
minute and mechanical attention to his physical works , as it would be by endeavouring to fill the mind with loftier notions of intellectual and moral grandeur , and of the destiny of man , and its advance towards a higher condition of mortal as well as immortal being- *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/59/
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