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      lie took his leacve , and . hastily hurried out of ^ the house . We cannot therefore conclude witji any certainty what a man feels from the pathos of hi § writings , unless we have an intimate

      acquaintance with the man himself , unless we can prove from his actions that his high wrought descriptions are the index of his

      mind . It is even possible , as the p hilosopher Moyes asserted , that a man of no feeling may succeed best in giving us a finished picture of distress . How is this to be

      accounted for , unless it be 5 that because they have no interest in what they deliver , they are not hurried on by any real passion , . they take time to d u ress it to tho , popular taste , by ornamenting it f ^ ith all the nicknackery which it

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      UNITARIAN BATCHELORS .

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      To the Editor of the Monthly Reposit ' ory \

      £ i \ i , London , May 23 , 1808 . On reading Mr . Landsey ' s treatise on < c Christian Idolatrv , " I met with an objection page 110 , to that part of the jparriage ceremony , according to the form

      p f the church of England , where the priest prays to God the father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost , to bless the married couple . This led me to examine the iovin

      of marriage with more attention , when I discovered additional ob-, jeetions ; such as the invocation , < c Christ have mercy upon us , " and the declaration which the

      man is jubliged to repeat after the priest , With this rigg I thee wed , with my body I thee worship , and with all my worldly goods / thee pulow * in the name of the Father ,

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      will bear ? The man , however , who feels and suffers in a high de- > gree , must express himself strongly on the subject which atfects him , though he does npt go out of his way to introduce any artful embellishment . I intended to

      have attempted an explanation of this , but rather wish to have this done by some of your ingenious correspondents . 1 shall only observe that , notwithstanding all the admiration which Sterne ' s JMaria has produced , he could not , to save his life , have written anything equal to David ' s lamentation over Absalom . He would like Dr . Swift , if in his situation , have been proud and witty , even when deploring the death of his lovely Stella . W , HAZLETT .

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      and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost . " Now though any thinking and , honest man might object to the mummery of the ring- ) the wickedness of proposing to worship his wife , and the falsehood of endowing her with all his worldly goods , it appears to me utterly impossible fpr an jjnitarian ei ,-ther tacitly or openly to join in the worshi p of the man Jesijs , or

      to propounce that he does $ 11 this , in the name of , the Father , Son , $ * nd tloly Ghost , thereby giving a sanction to tjie absurd and idolatrous notion of the Trinity . As sucfr , I shrill . pot be able fo be married in the churcfy pf England , which Unitarians consider as

      anticartsttan } unless so ; ne of your learned correspondents pin give

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      Unitarian BalcTtetors . 377

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 377, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/25/