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    xnre visited 'from tii » e to time by multitudes , of whom several procured permissioa to todge on different slights in the haunted spot . The result of their experiment invariably confirmed the voraciousness of the reports .

    Scoffing was exchanged for silence , and unbelief for credulity . One peculiarity belonging to the invisible agent , was , that it never performed its operations by candle-light . Hold the candle for a moment in the entry ,

    and on your xetura to the room you would find deeds of darkness done to the furniture and bed . Philosophy in vain endeavoured to account for these unusual appearance s * The inhabitants of the house were of the

    Methodist persuasion . The ministers of that denomination assured the public that such circumstances were by no means new , and exhibited several books containing * authentic accounts of their former occurrence . No

    explanation of the mystery has yet been offered ; no violent religious effects have been produced ; and at the moment I am writing , I cannot tell whether the nocturnal visitant continues or not his impressive , though vague , admonitions .

    The Letters of Gilbert Clerke to Baxter are excellent studies for amateur Unitarians . I would suggest to the transcriber a . various reading . In the second letter , instead of finishing

    the third paragraph with * ' how in solidum ? " I would read , " how in solidum , if an Archbishop may controul him ? " What follows this , is a new quotation from Cyprian .

    A little below , I see no propriety in the citation , Matt . iv . 17 ; ch . vii , 14 , might furnish a kind of an illustration to the writer's argument . Persons more familiar with scripture and with the point in controversy may think of some text apter still .

    In paragraph 7 , the sentence , But mw suck a sovereign power , &c , should either be made interrogatory , or a negative particle should be inserted after power . I like this Gilbert Clerke . He was very shrewd and candid .

    Reformation by means of kindness . * y which party could this fact have ° een divulged > By him who had commuted the felony or him who had w # ven and concealed it ? though ¦ "KMy pathetic and impressive , * fais

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    anecdote involves some circumstances of a delicate > nd painful nature which one would almost wish liad been confined to the applauding and rewarding bosom of the Deity alone . But the example may be of use . It also makes us revere something in human nature .

    Protestant Bigotry in Ireland Such enactments as are here quoted could probably be no where found in the annals of the present century \ hence , may we not infer an advance in

    the spirit of toleration , however imperceptible in its positive movements ? The hour-hand of human improvement frequently surprises us with unexpected positions .

    Criticism on Homer , &c . Mr . Evans ' s hypothesis receives support from the very etymology of the word Bc&K . I should think it likely that ucrvi was an early proverbial epithet annexed to 8 a ^ , and descriptive of . the precision with which the act of dividing implied in that substantive was accustomed to be executed . That it

    bears the meaning of equal partition , instead of epicurean richness , Heyne refers for proof to the Odyss . T . 281 — 283 . To derive it from ev $ , seems very far-fetched . The fathers might have borrowed the notion of Christ ' s descent into hell

    from the classics , if they had not found it already in the Scriptures , 1 Pet . iii . 19 . Rosenmuller has anticipated Mr . Evans ' s idea , but goes further back , and supposes that Peter

    adopted the vulgar notion of defunct persons descending into the place of departed spirits , and prosecuting the habits and employments to which they had fondly been addicted when alive 1

    The criticism on Coloss . iv . 1 , &c , is very happily appended to the remarks on Homer . Friendly Correspondence between an Unitarian and a Calvinist . I apprehend these writers will scarcely ever approach towards a mutual agreement . And the reason

    seems to be this — they both adopt for the grounds of their reasoning sentiments rather thun principles ; or , to speak more properly , they permit their principles to be so tinged by the prevailing hues of sentiment which radically belong to their respective characters , that even though , on coai-

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    Crltical Synopsis of the * Monthly Repository for Augutt , 1824 . 491

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/9/