MR KININMONT'S LECTURE.
To the Editor.
Sir, —I could reply to “ Y’s” letter in your last night’s issue, and endeavor to prove to him that tho phrases he is pleased to term “ cant common-places” are quite Scriptural; but in doing so, with any satisfaction to myself, I would require to lay before him cer- ■ tain passages from Holy Writ, and ask his opinion thereon. However, I question the propriety of doing so; and besides, the more I become acquainted with “Y.’a” style of thinking, as deduced from hia letters, the more am 1 persuaded that these passages would be quite thrown away upon him. The matter had better be left as it is. By the way, should “ Y ” ever again have occasion to seek light through the Star I might be so bold as to give him the hint that a little “frothy rhetoric” is not a bad thing in its Way ; for instance, were certain monotonous accusational styles of writing spiced with a touch of it, they would be more readable. I beg to thank you for your courtesy in having kept your columns open to dear “Y” and myself.— I am, &c,, R. B. H. Dunedin, Sept. 13.
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Evening Star, Issue 3298, 15 September 1873, Page 3
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200MR KININMONT'S LECTURE. Evening Star, Issue 3298, 15 September 1873, Page 3
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