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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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T ^ HE miseries of our suffering brethren in the South of France have been felt in this country . The return of the Bourbons has renewed the atrocities perpetrated on the memorable day of St . Bartholemew , by the order of their ancestor , that horrible monster ,. Louis the Fourteenth . It is
hardly credible , that persons could hare been found capable of reviving * such a religious cry , and making a difference of opinion on fhe tenets of Christianity , a cause for spoliation of goods , tortures and deprivation of life . Amongst the crimes imputed to Buonaparte , from this at least toe is free . No *> ne suffered under liis
reign on account of his religion : but , the contrary , the road to honours and employments was equally open to all , whatever might fee their religious persuasion . Indeed , so far was he from fomenting the Spirit of persecution , that , wherever liis uagles came , the gates of the Inquisition
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trian congregation there , all future communications to the Society are to be addressed to Mr . Thomas Cpoke , Jun . Newport , Isle of Wight , who has accepted the office of Secretary , pro tempore . The Rev . John Jones has issued th # Prospectus of a Greek and English Lexicon , intended for Schools or for Individuals
leaning the Greek tongue . It will comprehend all the words to be found in the writings of Xenophon , in the histories of Herodotus and Thucydides , and in the more popular pieces of Plato and Aristotle—in the Poems of Homer , Theocritus , Pindar , Anacreon , Bion , Moschus , Euripides , and Sophocles . The Work will consist of one
Octavo Volume , containing from 800 to 1000 pages closely , but distinctly printed , three columns each page , and the price not to exceed One Guinea . Every word will be fully , yet concisely , explained ; the primary sense will be first stated , and the secondary deduced from it by analogy y '
authorities for the meaning will in general h % specified : the constituent parts of compound terms will be pointed out , and tha roots of simple words , whenever it may ha necessary towards ascertaining- the primary sense , shall be traced to the Hebrew , Arabic , Persian , and Shanscreet . Finally , on #
or two synonyms will generally be selected from the jGrreek Lexicographers , and th ^ opposite term in Greek specified , as th » most effectual means of acquiring a precis ^ notion of the explained term .
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were unbarred ; and the priests lost their power till it was restored to them by those whom they falsely called heretics and doomed to everlasting perdition . The wickedness perpetrated in France , has excited , as it might be expected , the Protestant Society for the protection of religious liberty . This excellent society ,
it will be recollected , was formed on an attempt made by Lord Sidmouth , adverse to the Protestants of England : for to the body of men of which this society is composed , this name peculiarly belongs . It is given indiscriminately in the present day to that class of nominal Christian * which protests against the authority of th « Church of Rome : but of what avail is it
to protest against the authority of ont church , if the Protesters assume an an * , thority equally repugnant to religious li * berty and to Christianity . Let it be impressed , and strongly impressed ^ by emurjr
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Notices . Southern Unitarian Society . —We are desired to state that Mr . Fullagar , late Secretary to this Society , being about to remove to Palgrare , in Suffolk , in order to undertake the pastoral office in the Unita-
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Bumber of copies issued by the society , since its formation , is little less than 1 400 , 000—if to this vast amount , the Bibles and Testaments v / hich have been distributed in Ireland , America , on the Continent of Europe , and in India , be added , the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society has already given rise to the distribution of about two millions of the sacred volume .
Trie Report having been gone through Lord Calthorp proposed , and the Hon . and Rev . T . G . Noel seconded a motion for its being adopted and circulated among * the members . The Rev . Mr . Cunningham , Mr . Geldard , jun . Mr- J . J . Gurney , Rev . Mr . Edwards , Col . Bathnrst , the Rev . Wm . Kinghorne , and Mr . Buxton , also severally addressed the meeting , the business of which concluded with an
unanimous vote of thanks to the Lord Bishop . It was announced at the meetings , that the Bishop would not again take the chair ; but for no other reason than that which the late Bishop of Durham assigned for retiring from presiding at such public meeti igs , viz . that he had reached the age of three-score years and ten !
Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christian's Survey Of The Political World.
MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christian ' s Survey of the Political World .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1815, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1766/page/61/
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