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g&ag n ^ ioa * N 6 d % i ng caa . be » jtoany * prfr » fr orViliii uthid the mode in whicli he deals with ? remorse . -Hi liie ^ fcaadfrffeiiit * pitifal , craving for forgiveness , as though the Infinite MMnb 6 buld Yorfflve , as men fofgivet as though Dtkari could Jb * n 6 jjp 04 oijjj . of hi /* jnUery by forgiveness > as tfcaugb : the p u * tf * c ^ k ^ T of the spirit by the searching ordeal that was Hrcnn < til | F t ^ * ta r ege ueration , were not the only real fruit of fepenisniefc ** the oi * e J ^ rWbt h ope that sustains the heart th roa gfe th « labtfft l
rinth of human ills *—the still , small voice' that it hears Abiwi the wkirlvrind ? < ;> ^ The style is generally unexceptionable ; at once simple fctt # powerful ; but it is tinged at times—the author being &mfti #£ tent itjL inconsistency—with a singular affectation of B y ^ tt phraseology . There are other anomalous peculiarities b ^ ioM ^ suqh as calling the Bible € The Book , '—as though Hoviera Hiadug « i * Qt l iThe Book / and He&iod ' s Theogony , cuad Miih
tons Jraradise Lost , and Mahomet ' s Koran , were no&tiimcte ' TChe Boot , ' according to their respective wntern nrti '¦ && i ^ Lrefs ? It may be all very proper wherever there \ % aineoi % 19 dN ing , But in Claude Jerningham , with his aristocratic teitetfiraA
worldly habits , it savours of cant . Also , the classical alittfctattil and q-wotatioas from the Greek and Latin , are ratbilr # u | jei ^ abundant- As to the author ' s liberality of miod , ho \ teT ^ V JfU filly admit his claim to it . If he be indeed a r High ChWrete * raan , ^ ^ nd an Old Whig '(?) as he seems to profo&s rHmad he is singularly liberal . The sentiments he ha ^ put ifttQ ikt mouth of Everard Sinclair are so convincing , that those of tikt
( E excellent old lawyer who is opposed to him . on -the A& crf E ^ tablisbments' and * Existing Institution * ' seem hmtt Wduto and shallow in the comparison . We honour him to <* fofcliWS quotations . The old dramatists , Shelley , Keats , Wordim ^ ortk aud Coleridge , supply most of his heads of obatotttife , HHfm prove the fine qualities of his own mind in the apprieoitttioir . " .::. Accurate perception and fine description of the nicer ftbfltffti of character will be found in these interesting volmttrt . iAtl tt
extract © r two from the « chool-days of Claude Je ^ rningtrtl may be given as examples : — * * * - <• u Sciiodl has b ^ en rightly culled * a niicrocosni ; * It is , indeed , " a Hftl $ world ; the argument of a greater work—the sketch of a larger f > &tiift £ DL | L puppet ehovr —• theatre in miniature . It is a sort of uttd ^ ess TAtKii ^ al of the tragedy of life . Life is always a tragedy , for there is deiifcfc jfeltto closing scene . ' ~ r ¦ .
iTI > is if a chilling truism . We cdl knew it before , h \ HU i « strikingly expressed . After a very capital sketch of the uslMV who Jfeoired hk « an ' overgrown Brebdtgtofcg rjdy iU tfc dbfit ^ grtytrob * du rt % e * ikP ond a pair of thrtc& * aotft * A St ^ tM ^ xMMn mtlo *; Mid ^ ted mWh ^ hkn * # m-oWwhittm ^ o'l ^ f hofc fHB
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1836, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2664/page/47/
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