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* Iha ^ e not the hoilbirr of Mr . Roscoe ' s personal acquaintance , or of any literary intercourse with him ; but I remember to have heard a very respectable minister of the establishment observe , that he pever returned from a visit at Mr . Roscoe ' s house , without returning a better man , or at least without inducements to become so .
I have read Mr . Roscoe ' s book more than once , and I do declare it never struck me that the author was an enemy to the Reformation , and a friend to * bigotry and revenge "—that he possessed C 4 zeal without knowledge , united with an enmity to the kingly authority of \ Jesus , and the best , interests of
mankind . " Such criticisms , I am persuaded , Mr . Roscoe will never stoop to notice ; they are every way beneath him , and argue very little for the sincerity of those professions which seem to imply an enmity to " religious persecution in every form and degree /'' <
Sincerely praying that the Monthly Repository may never become the vehicle of low scurrility , anonymous abuse , or partial and illiberai criticism , I remain ^ dear Sir 3 Your constant reader , London ^ July 14 , 1 SQ 6-. J . Nightingale *
P . SI—Since the above remarks were written , I have made a discovery which exhibits an instance of evangelical honour I hope not very frequent . The author of the paper on which . I have animadverted in the foregoing letter has favoured us with a fine sentiment , expressed in language flowery and
impressive * Your readers ^ however , will be surprised to find that this worth y defender of the Reformation has thought proper to steal the only well written part of his paper , although without knowing it , from Mr . Roscoe himself ! and Ci by a kind of chemical affinity " . has appropriated Mr . Roscoe ' s
sentiment and language to the purposes of his own " malignant" *' charges against their original author , who had used them on a very different occasion , in a pamphlet published by Robinsons ' , Paternoster-row , in the year 1196 . This pamphlet ( although not generally known to be so ) is , I believe , the production of Mr . Roscoe , and is entitled ' ¦ ' Strictures on Mr . Burke ' s Two
Letters , addressed to a Member of the present Parliament Part the First . " The passage to which I at present allude , in Mr . Roscoe ' s publication , is as follows : It is wonderfully , and no doubt wisely directed by the . Author of Nature , that from the same soil and climate from which some plants draw their healthful and nutritive juices , others collect a poison the most destructive to the human race . It would seem , too , as if the human character displayed a similar diversity ^ and that some
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Defence vf Mr . flosc < re . 369
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/33/
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