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    Knowledge of Nature , and Turner ' s Abstract to the Historjr of the Bible , may suit the youngest clashes of riders . €€ Aikin ' s Evenings at Home , Edgeworth ' s Parent ' s Assistant , Berqum ' s works , Aikin ' s History of the Year , Aifcin ' s Arts of Life , Robinson Crusoe , jWakefield ' s Mental Improvement , Juvenile Travellers and Family Tour , Aikin ' s England delineated , Travels of Rolando , Goldsmith ' s larger Geography , &c . are fitted for more advanced pupils .

    < c Rupsel ' s Arjtient and Modern History , Holland's Essays on Antient History , Fenelon ' s Telemachds and Lives of Antient Philosophers , Campe r s New Robinson Crusoe , Columbus , Cortez and JPizarro , Letters from a Nobleman to his Son on the English History , J . Adam ' s { Adams ' s ) History of Britain on Henry ' s plan , and Priestley ' s Lectures on History , seem calculated for higher classes .

    * Telescope ' s Philosophy , the Scientific Dialogues , Field ' s Introduction to the Use of the Globes , Butler * s Exercise * upon them , A . Adam ' s Summary of Geography and History , and Gregory ' s Economy ef Nature , may contribute to initiate young minds in Natural Philophy and Astronomy .

    **' * Aikin * s Poetry for Children , the- Speaker , &c . Edgeworth ' s Poetry explained , and Aikhi ' s Letters on English Poetry , may form an elegant taste . * Barbauld ' s Selections from the Tatler , Spectator and Guardian , Aikin ' s Letters to his Son , Chapone ' s Letters , Priestley * * Institutes , Paley ' s Natural Theology and Evidences of Christianity , together with Watts ' s 'View of Scripture History , Field ' s Set of Questions to the Ne ^ Testament , and Wellbelpved * s Devotional Exercises , may fill the mind with moral and religious knowledge , and influence it to the practice of virtue and piety . " Having given our opinion of this work so fuiry , we shall conclude with recommending it earnestly to those who direct

    the studies of youth , and Av&h'to possess a great deal of instructive and pleasant reading in a small compass .

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    ARTICLE III . An Essay on the Excellence of Christian Knowledge ; with an appeal to Christians ^ on the propriety of using every : means for its promotion . By F . A . Cux A . M . Button , Is . 6 d . 18 O 6 . This is a sensible , v \ ell-written tract on the suliject of ealvinistic theology , which the author considers as equivalent to * Christian Knowledge /* " He defines Christian Knowledge , somewhat loosely , to be cc the knowledge of Jesus Christ , or a just apprehension of the nature of his mission into this world , and a cordial reception of his doctrines into the heart /* He then lays down the doctrine of the atonement as the foundation of Christianity / and endeavours to shew its reasonableness . This is , we think , umvise ; for though if it were a doctrine of scripture men would undoubtedly be bound to believe it it is surely preposterous to attempt to prove that it is reconcilable either to justice-or to common sense ! - , "i

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/45/