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    sovereignty , that its possessor is tempted to crimes which the family despot cannot have committed ; it may be ( and it may not ) only because * his power is more limited *— his actual perpetration is that of the lesser offence , —and to tell him that , therefore , he would doubtless commit the greater , is less likely to

    move him to penitence than to rouse his conscience to repel what he will consider an unjust accusation , and which , from the nature of the case , is incapable of proof . Nathan ' s judgment would have been less celebrated had he gone to the man that stole the lamb , told him of David ' s committing adultery and murder , and then exclaimed , thou doubtless wouldst have been the man . '

    In the description of a man of sincerity , page 272 , one quality is introduced , which has so much more the air of particular allusion than of general portraiture , that it might as well have been omitted . ' He makes no pharisaical statements , nor publishes exaggerated reports of the growing prosperity of a favourite cause ,

    or of the decline of an obnoxious cause / This is a palpable hit ; but not given at a proper time . There is a time for all things , and amongst the rest for exposing the pretensions , the misrepresentations , the calumnies , and the hypocrisy of bigots ; but it scarcely coincides with the time when Family Sermons are indited for the benefit of the heads of households .

    In finding only blemishes so trivial to note , a strong commendation and recommendation of this volume must needs be implied . There are still remaining some names , celebrated in our societies , which are not in the Editor's index ; and he has before him , in which to collect materials for his third volume , the mines of Transylvania , the forests of Germany , and the wide prairie-lands of the American Christians . We expect his return from his mental exploration of them in search of Unitarian treasures , like the Israelitish spies , with a huge cluster of the grapes of Eshcol .

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    Beard ' s Family Sermons . 85

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    SONNET .

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    In the pale shadows of the silent night , Oh ! friend belov'd ! thy form once more I saw ; Not as restor'd from death , with trembling awe , But still in all thy living beauty bright : Thy smile was breathing still its calm delight , — Thine eye with purest beams of genius shone , —

    The music of thy voice—all was thine own ; And fear and sorrow vanish'd at thy sight . Again , as in the years gone by , I turn'd To hear thee speak the words of trust and love , Till my thoughts soar'd all earthly griefs above , And in my heart a holier spirit buru'd . Ah ! friend belov'd , too soon I woke to shed The tears of memory on thy narrow bed , J . E . R .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1832, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1806/page/13/