The Ladies' Repository Volume 9 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 Excerpt: ...and facts will be very valuable to all philosophers and students. 7. yon Gerlach's Commentary is a high recommendation of the work in question, presenting some beautiful exegetical passages from lts pages. The quotations might have been belter. 6. The Methodist Episcopal Church South, by Dr. T. . Bond, sen., is an able resume of the history of Methodism, as it stands connected with slavery, closing with a promise to pursue the subject in a future number. It is too late in the day to praise the ability of Dr. Bond as a controversial writer; for his reputation, in that as in every respect, is established. There are several t/aits of style always to be met with in the Doctor's writings. First, he is at all times master of his subject. Secondly, his diction is clear, forcible, and often elegant, the word and the idea, in every place appearing as if they had been made expressly for each other. Thirdly, there is a just discrimination constantly kept up between things apparently alike, and a power of illustrating such differences, when thus logically exhibited, seldom surpassed in the best of English authors. In many other respects, Dr. Bond stands closely allied, in point of style, with the great classics of our language; and in the article before us, whose controversial bearings we do not. speak of, he folly sustains his well-earned reputation as a writer. 9. Religious T raining t by Dr. Olin, is the closing contributed article of the number. It is, by universal consent, the ablest. It has given us a different, perhaps a higher opinion, of the rhetorical power of the writer, than we had before, while our appreciation of bis general intellectual and moral qualities has ever been about as high as it well could be. The form of the article is oratorical, accou...