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BANISTER’S DIRECTIONS FOR THE STUDENT OF DIVINITY. 
chanzed into a ‘stone. Whether there be 
any thing like a moral allegory in the fable, 
‘J shall: not say: but, though it may seem 
paradoxical, yet I believe it will be found 
true, that the heart of man is, practically 
never so hard; as when it has reached its 
extreme point of softness. ‘Too much of 
artificial sensibility always, at last, termi- 
nates in making the affections as insensible, 
as the stones that pave our streets.—And 
“the mind, that has been tainted, though, 
only #1 a slight degree, with that cant of 
sensibility which has been lately imported 
among us in such huge masses from the 
book-shops of Germany, and which some 
of our modern dramatists, with more suc- 
eess than wisdom, have introduced upon 
the stage, is soon brought to regard as yul- 
gar Bhd contemptible the duties and offices 
of humanity. They, whose heads have 
been turned dizzy by the fume of this in- 
_ toxicating sensibility, are above the common 
offices of humanity. They can live and 
breathe only in the high empyrean of sen- 
sation ;—and they cannot leave the ideal 
world of mighty enterprise and gigantic woe 
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to sooth the ordinary and every-day miseries 
of their fellow-creatures. No ;—they belong 
to too lofty a sphere to execute the low 
drudgery of vale beneficence.—‘ Dear me !* 
exclaims a fine lady, whose nerves are thril- 
ling with the noxious effluvia of some in- 
flammatory romance, ‘ how shocking dt 
would be to soil my hands or to offend any. 
of my exquisitely refined senses, in entering 
the peasant’s dirty hovel to carry bread to 
his ragged family !—No; such paltry occu- 
pations were never designed fur us ;—we will 
keep mounted aloft in the regions of melting 
sensibility ; and will leave such unbecoming 
toils to be performed by the dull and insen- 
sate part of mankind, who never shed one 
delicious tear over the inchanting pages of a 
Goéthe or Kotzebue.” 
The directions which are offéred for 
the purpose of leading to the cultiva- 
tion and practice of true benevolence 
are just and forcible; such as might be 
expected from the well-known goodness 
and abilities of the respectable writer. 
Arr. LX. 4 familiar Conversation on religious Bigotry, Candour, and Liberality, 
humbly intended as a Persuasive to greater Moderation, Union, and Peace, amongst the 
Followers of Christ. 
IF any considerations can influence 
the mind of that man who has the teme- 
rity to persuade himself that he or his 
sect is exclusively possessed of religious 
truth, and the folly to believe that all 
who subscribe not to the same creed, 
must “ without doubt perish everlast- 
“ingly,” they are such as are contained 
in the pages of this small tract. That 
Zelotes should finally yield to the more 
forcible arguments of Caendidus, is no 
other than must necessarily happen, to 
suit the author’s purpose; but we ac- 
By Davin Earon. 
Svo. pp. 64. 
knowledge that this does not happen 
till the contest has been long and fairly 
carried on. Zelotes urges every prin+ 
ciple which the character he personates 
must be supposed to own, and Candidus 
very ably supports the more liberal and 
christian views which must distinguish 
the enemy of bigotry. Mr. E.is, how- 
ever, unfortunate in his title. The 
length of the speeches gives the work 
more of the air of Formal Harangues 
than of Familiar Conversations. 
Arr. LXI. Part the First, of an Address to the Public, from the Society for the Sup- 
| pression of Vice, instituted in London, 1802. Setting forth, with a List of the Mem- 
bers, the Utility and Necessity of such an Institution, and its Claim to public Support 
Svo.. pp. 106. 
_ THAT the members of this society 
act from the best motives, we cannot 
allow ourselves to doubt: but that the 
institution has all that claim to general 
patronage, which they here endeavour 
_ to prove, we are disposed to deny. 
Upon this subject we have much to 
offer, which will appear with more pro- 
priety when the Second Part of the Ad- 
dress shall have been laid before the 
public. 
Arr. LXIL Directions for the Student of Divinity ; in a Letter to a Young Gentleman 
intended for Holy Orders. By the Rev. James Banister, Oc. Svo. pp. 22. 
THIS little work principally consists 
in the enumeration of a catalogue of a course of theological reading. 
books, which the author recommends this purpose he conducts his disciple 
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to the study of a friend entering upon: 
For 
