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    Opinions of the Early Christians . To the Editor . « Sir , It is far from my wish to discourage or undervalue any attempts at discussion of the subject of Mr . Madge ' s communication , of which I deeply feel the importance ; but allow me to submit to him , whether such a summary as he

    seems to propose of the controversy between Horsleyand Priestley has not been already executed by Mr * Belsham , so far as such a review by one enlisted avowedly in the cause of one of the combatants is likely to be useful ; and whether what we now want is not ( as an earJy correspondent in your New Series , Vol . I . p . J 01 , suggested ) a new

    investigation of the subject , not of the mode in which two warm partizans handled it ? I , for one , confess that I have no great faith in the caution or impartiality ( I do not mean it offensively ) of either of the parties . I see little utility in discussing materials which ( as far as they go ) are already before us all , and I am quite sure that we are wasting time in fighting ove ' r an old battle on the same premises , and dressing up old arguments in

    new dresses , when the true course appears to be to use the old light as far as it will go , but to set to work in earnest , ( with the increased means of iuformation which time and experience will amply afford , ) in search of materials at the fountain head ; using Dr . Priestley ' s excellent example ( too little followed in these days ) to stimulate us to diligence , but taking warning by the faults both of himself and his antagonist . A STUDENT .

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    London University . The following Roman authority has lately been cited on the question : — " Whether young men are better educated in a metropolis and under the eye of their parents , or from home ? " or , in other terms , whether parents , and chiefly Londoners , should or should not do all in their power to raider London the capital of the civilized world , in respect to

    science and literature , ( as it is in all others , ) by supporting the establishment of the London University ? One of these authorities is Horace , who , far from finding that young men ought to be educated at a distance , and that a stranger ' s care is superior to that of a parent , highly praises his father , and confesses that he owes all to I \ tm ; not

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    because he sent him from Rome into the country , to study under the care of a tutor , but because he took him from the , country to Rome , and he himself took care of his moral instruction . The other of these Romans is young Pliny , whose letter does not want any comment . Had

    he been living m our days , and a Londoner , he could not have written any thing more to the purpose than this letter , —which , be it observed , regarded the case of sending young men not far , but only thirty miles from their uative town . town .

    The following are the Verses of Horace referred to : Sat . L . i ., Sat vi ., v . 65 , et seq . ( translation . ) If some few venial faults deform my soul If none justly braud my fame .... If pure and innocent My father was the cause , who , though maintained By a lean farm but poorly , yet disdained The country schoolmaster To Rome by this bold father was I

    brought , To learn Himself , the guardian of unblemish'd truth , Amongst my tutors would attend my youth ; And thus preserved my chastity of mind ( That prime of virtue in its highest kind ) Not only pure from guilt , but even the shame

    That might with vile suspicion hurt my fame . Francis . C . Pliny to Cornelius Tacitus . I rejoice that you are safely arrived in Rome ; for though I am always desirous to see you , I am more particularly so now . I purpose to continue a few days

    longer at my house at Tusculum , iu order to finish a work which I have upon my hands . For I am afraid , should I put a stop to this design , now that it is so nearly completed , I shall find it ' difficult to resume . tn the meanwhile , that I may lose no time , I send this letter ¦

    before me , to request a favour of you , which I hope shortly to a $ k in person . But before I inform you what my request Is , I must let you into the occasion of it . Being lately at Coino , the place of my nativity , a young lad , son to one of my neighbours , made me a visit . I asked him whether he studied rhetoric , and

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/51/