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ON THE

CHARACTER AND WRITINGS

OF

JOHN MILTON;

OCCASIONED BY THE

PUBLICATION OF HIS LATELY DISCOVERED

'TREATISE ON CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE.'

By W. E. CHANNING, LL.D.

SECOND EDITION.

BOSTON, PRINTED:-LONDON, REPRINTED

FOR EDWARD RAINFORD, 13 RED LION PASSAGE, RED LION SQUARE;
SOLD ALSO BY R. HUNTER, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD:

AND ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.

1828.

14495.16.2

Harvard College Library

July 2, 3914.

Gift of
Mary E. Haven.

[These Remarks appeared anonymously in "The Christian Examiner" published at Boston, N. A. They were put into the Publisher's hands by an American gentleman of this city, who received several copies of the pamphlet from Boston as the work of Dr. Channing.]

Printed by RICHARD TAYLOR,
Red Lion Court, Fleet Street.

LITERARY NOTICES

OF

DR. CHANNING'S PUBLICATIONS.

"Analysis of the Character of Napoleon."

"It is refreshing to turn from our state turmoils and anomalies to the perusal of the wise and candid estimate of a character which has excited the extremes of aversion and admiration-written with that purity and freshness of feeling, spirit, and eloquence, that nothing but the love of liberty and virtue can so well inspire."-Times, Jan. 29, 1828.

"A pamphlet which does honour to the name it bears."―London Mag. Feb. 1828.

"It is a very clever production, written with considerable eloquence, and by one who is evidently capable of looking steadily at the inequalities in a great man's character, and tracing them, as far as may be, to their source.”—Athenæum, Feb. 5, 1828.

"This is a just and admirable appreciation of the character of Napoleon. That Dr. Channing is not dazzled by the splendour of despotism we are not surprised, since, in his character of Milton, a more glorious name than ever belonged to tyrant or satrap, he exhibited the capacity to comprehend and pourtray the majesty of republican virtue. We recommend this pamphlet to the attentive perusal of every man in England."-London Weekly Review, Feb. 9, 1828.

"It is characterized by the same splendour of eloquence, the same soundness of judgment, the same nobility of feeling, and the same general impartiality for which all his writings are at once so conspicuous and so valuable."-Literary Chronicle, Feb. 16, 1828.

"Dr. Channing is already well known by his eloquent and able review of Milton's character and writings; and the Character of Napoleon' is executed with equal ability and effect. If our recommendation be worth any thing at all, let Dr. Channing's analysis be carefully read."—Monthly Mag. March, 1828.

"The tone of Dr. Channing has the calmness of security, the earnestness of philanthropic integrity, the chastised confidence of intelligence ripened into wisdom;-it is that of a mind which fears nothing but error, suppresses nothing but the promptings of inconsiderate feeling, desires nothing but the good of its kind. This incomparable essay, for the combination of intellectual and moral excellence it presents, rises in our estimation immeasurably above any recent production in the literature of this country."-Scotsman.

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