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ThtiGkrhtfokk Jkrcow ; *> r , M < Ueriahf 6 r Thinking in n Christian rri SptiKt : By Willifem"Martin ^ Author of ^ The Christian intflo ^ pher / tJa&i > feef&g , good morality , good sense , and true religion , expressed in so clear and simple a form that a child may understand ! and a man find an equal pleasure and profit iu the pcrusaU
The Sacred Classics . Vol . XXVIII . ' ' Tttie Commentary on the Psalms / by Bishop Home , is chosen for this number of ' The Sacred Classics , ' " under the especial patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty , the Queen / ' It is preceded by an introductory Essay from the pen of James
Montgomery , which is not without interest , frpm the writer ' s announcement of the musical instruments invented by David , and the grave defence of sacfred music ! It contains ^ however , 9 . gre ^ t deal of mawkish stu ff , by no means redeemed by his pavillihg , at the words of HandePs Oratorios ! This Ilssay is { ql \ qwea by a Memoir by the Rev . William Jcipes . Me talks ? $ ry amposingly ^ nd prosily of " when Mr ' . Hoftie iat down to on the *
jvrite his ^ Commentary Psalms / &c , and independent of its ignorant remarks concerning DrPriestT 6 y , is ' altogether a most wearisome and unworthy account of a very atniable and learned num . AH the good Bishop ' s wit and humour are carefully excluded . A man more fond of a joke never lived , unless perchance one of his obscure descendants . As to his work on King David ' s Psalms , we think they need no laborious
comnikntarjr , Sonie of them we all like to read ;—they are the soMirae of poetry and devotion ;—some we are auite indifferent about reading ; and some we do not like to react at all , or hear anybody else read . O . The Botanist . No . I . Conducted by B . M ^ und ,. % L . S . ; ; assisted by the Rev . J . S . Henalow , M . A ., F . I * & . V&C . & ^ ., Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge . Ltffldon . ( To be continued monthly *) is of
Tji ^ s the first numb er a work on the science Bota ny , taken in iU most enlarged sense ; teaching the natural orders and physiology , as well as the systematic arrangement of plant *; and containing information on their history , properties , and habit */ with a view to popular information as to their uses and ctflHire . Such a work was much wanted . It is here
truly observed , that the artificial system established by Linnaeus ( we have not tet learned the new Spelling of " Linneus / ' ) though a great fcchievetnent , vtaa but a rudimentary step to real science . . The nqiore difficult study of the nattural orders , opens a far wider field of knowledge to the atudent .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1836, page 712, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2663/page/60/
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