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ECLECTIC REVIEW.

MDCCCXXXI.

JULY- -DECEMBER.

THIRD SERIES.

VOL. VI.

Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Επι-
κουρεῖον τε καὶ ̓Αριστοτελικήν· ἀλλ ̓ ὅσα εἴρηται παρ' ἑκάστῃ τῶν αἱρεσίων
τούτων καλῶς, δικαιοσύνην μετὰ εὐσεβοῦς ἐπιστήμης ἐκδιδάσκοντα, τοῦτο
σύμπαν τὸ ΕΚΛΕΚΤΙΚΟΝ φιλοσοφίαν φημι.

CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1.

LONDON:

HOLDSWORTH AND BALL,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD.

G. WOODFALL, ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET, LONDON,

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Dewar, Dr. D., on the Nature, Reality, and Efficacy of the Atonement

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Edwards's Enquiry into the Freedom of the Will, with an Introductory Essay by

the Author of the Natural History of Enthusiasm

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La Trobe on the Music of the Church

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THE

ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR JULY, 1831.

Art. I. 1. On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each; with Aids toward a right Judgement of the late Catholic Bill. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq., R.A., R.S.L. Small 8vo. pp. 227. Price 10s. 6d. London, 1830.

2. A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of York, on the present Corrupt State of the Church of England. By R. M. Beverley, Esq. 8vo. Fifth Edition. pp. 42. Beverley, 1831.

3. Church Reform. By a Churchman. Second Edition, small 8vo. pp. 226. London, Murray, 1830.

FEW

EW writers of the present day are so capable of furnishing aids to reflection' as Mr. Coleridge; but, aids toward a right judgement' of any question, his mode of treating things is not the best adapted to supply. What the late Mr. Hall once remarked of Dr. Owen, may with still greater propriety be applied to the Author of "The Friend,"-that he 'dives deep and comes up muddy.'* He is, perhaps, the most comprehensive thinker of the age, but it is a comprehensiveness fatal to distinctness; and the vague, generalized survey of a subject, which he loves to take, reminds us of a bird's eye view of a tract of country, or of the appearance of the earth from a balloon. And, if we may pursue the simile, from the elevation to

* Mr. Hall was peculiarly happy in repartee. York, (from whom we heard the anecdote,) was

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Dr. Mason, of New zealously expatiating

on the merits of Dr. Owen as a writer: You must at least allow,' he said to Mr. Hall, that Owen dives deep.' 'Yes, sir,' was the reply, 'dives deep,' &c. as given above. Mr. Hall was ever ready, however, to do justice to Owen as a divine: it was to his prolix and perplexed style only that he referred.

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