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      is not a good man , who puts himself in . Jftfe way-of Christian mean ^ , and

      expresses himself-as an ingenuous inquirer , very likely to find the truth ? What more , in fact , does Dr . Priestley say than our Lord himself said , viz . that "If any man would do the will of God , he should know of his doctrine" ?

      Bigotry alone could affect to derive from the passage a confession that Unitarians and Unbelievers are near one to another ; and I really am ashamed that any publication supported by Protestant Dissenters should be used for such purposes as this , which would disgrace the Anti-Jacobin Review . It

      is reported that Dr . J . P . Smith , and Mr . Chaplin , of Bishop Stortford , and other gentlemen of character and honour , are engaged in the Congregational Magazine , and it surely becomes tfyem to disavow a passage which contains a virtual falsehood , and breathes an evil mind . AN INDEPENDENT .

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      No . CCCLX . To mahe a probable Conjecture of Tempers and Dispositions by the Modulation of the Voice in ordinary Conversation . Sitting in company , and having been a little before musical , I chanced to

      take notice that in ordinary discourse words were spoken in perfect notes , and that some of the company used 8 ths , some 5 ths , and some 3 rds , and that those were most pleasing , whose words , as to their tone , consisted most of concords , and where of discords ,

      of such as constituted harmony : and the same person was the most affable , pleasant , and the best natured in the company . And this suggests a reason why many discourses which one hears with much pleasure , when they come to be read , scarcely seem the same thing . From this difference in the music of

      speech , we may also conjecture that of tempers . We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety \ the Lydian , freedom ; the ^ Eolic * s weet still-

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      ness-and composure ; the Phrygian , jollity and youthful levity ; the Ionic soothes the storms of disturbances arising from passion . And why may we not reasonably suppose that those whose speech naturally runs into the notes peculiar to any of these Moods , are likewise in disposition ? So also

      from the Cliff , as he that speaks in Gamut , to be manly ; C Fa Ut , may shew one to be of ordinary capacity , though good disposition . G Sol Re Ut , to be peevish and effeminate , and of a weak and timorous spirit ; Sharps , an effeminate sadness ; Flats , a manly or melancholic sadness . He who has

      a voice in some measure agreeing with all cliffs , seems to be of good parts , and fit for a variety of employments , yet somewhat of an inconstant nature . Likewise from the Times ; so Semibrefs may bespeak a temper dull and phlegmatic ; Minims , grave and serious ; Crotchets , a prompt wit ;

      Quavers , vebemency of passion , and used by scolds ; Semibref rest may denote one stupid , or fuller of thoughts than he can utter ; Minim rest , one that deliberates ; Crotchet rest , one in a passion , so that from the natural use of Mood , Note and Time , we may collect dispositions . PhiL Trans . XII . 414 .

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      102 Cleaning's .

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      GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .

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      No . CCCLXL Fool-Doctors . None are greater fools than they who set up for fool-doctors in the grand hospital of incurables , the principal districts and partitions of which are , Europe , Asia , Africa , America ,

      with a fifth towards the South Pole , not yet discovered . The first degree of folly is to think one ' s self wise ; the second is to profess one ' s self wise ; and the third is to pretend to refonn the world , and to cure others of their folly . To attempt such a cure , a man must be a fool and a half . . So

      moralizes a certain philosopher , who , methinks , judgeth rather too severel y of his fellow-creatures . In the spacious hospital of which he speaks , there are always some patients who toay be curea , or , at least , much relieved . Let every one , therefore , contribute all that he can towards mending others , not forgetting himself . JorttWs Erasmus ? 8 vO . II . 305 *

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/38/