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is a theologic flap iipon the heart , as the dunning for a promise is a political flap upon the memory : both the one and the other is useless where men have wit enough to be ho * nest . This makes for my hypothesis of wit and judgment * I believe you to have both in a great degree , and therefore I am , with great esteem and truth , your ' s ,
Laurence Sterne . P , S »— -J will take care to be walking under some colonnade , in or about the Hospital , about a quarter before eleven .
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ORIGINAL LITTERS OF THE REV . S . BOURNE , OF BIRMINGHAM ; AND THE REV . DR , DOPDIUDGE * NO * III , To the Itev . Drv Doddribge , rev . stR , Jan . 23 , 1741-2 * The introduction to your letter of Dec . 12 , as also thexson * elusion , are expressive of respect very obliging , and for which X thank you , and am sorry any part of mine should be judged
so disobliging as you represent it to be . Your expostulatory reproof of me you apprehend to be kind * yiess and respect to me , ( Sect . 2 . ) By the same rule of judgment and measure of acting and which , in the very last clause of the letter , you adopt , and profess a willingness to have ap * jplied ) I may , though you should not , interpret my suspicion ,
pr , ' as you term it , charge and insinuation of < c trimming it a little with the gospel of Christ , ' * as an act of kindness and respect to you ; though more than once you call it unkind ^ and 3 . 1 so represent my letter as containing * nothing material" beside ; whereas I thought there were a few observations not
wholly immaterial ; but I leave every man to see with his own jeyes . However , had you made appear the injustice or ground * lessness of my insinuation or suspicion , I would not have in ~ sisted pn the claim of kindness in it , which you are so unwilling to allow , though possibly there are men who would have felt it operate like excellent oil .
I acknowledge it a great felicity to be able to satisfy conscience , and an additional one tp be able tp forgive a mistaken and iigxiriotis brother ; " yet 1 cannot agrep with you that this was ail that was necessary in such a c ^ se , Others may judge Jt very beepming , if not necessary , to attempt to reconcile your Paraphrase and your Notes ; to remove the absurdities wfriph f log the opinion of Christ ' s Supreffie Deity , wjiich you
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Rev . 8 . Bourne and Dr . Doddridge . 40 ?
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/15/
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