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the merit of the wojflc in question nmong themr They &re dead , but yet speak ! 1 most heartily concur with your last correspondvnt , in considering the high value of the work as of more importance to posterity than the names of the authors . But should a new
edition soon take place , the insertion of the names may be * very proper .
A new edition , I really think , is called for , hoth on account of the scarcity of the work , and its admirable tendency to strengthen the caus 6 of British liberty , civil and religious . The style is clear , manly , vigorous and elegant ,
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CC OLD WHIG , " BISHOP HORSELEY ' s LETTER , * *
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The contributors to the periodical publication called the cc Old Whig" have been enquired after in the Monthly . Repository , and some of them have been named ; ( vo ) . iii . p . 559 , 651 ,
652 . ) It may not be generally known that Mr . Manning , in his Life of Towgood , attributes three papers of that work to this gentleman , viz . Nos . 83 , QO and 91 :
vol . ii . The subjects of the papers are the order for' reading the Apocryphal Romances of Tobit , Bel and the Dragon and the Services of Confirmation-and Absolution . [ Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Rev . Micaiah Towgood , p . 19 . ] "
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The Pastoral Letter of Bishop Horsejey ' s inserted from the original into the last nurhber of M . Repos . p . 131 . is not new XG > the public , whether quoted of
alluded toy by Priestley or not . I find it copied into a Postscript to a pamphlet , published byGadell , in 179 O 5 which is intituled "A Letter to a Nobleman , containing Considerations on ihe Laws relative to Dissenters , and on the in * tended Application to Parliament for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts . By a Laymaa . ' *
On the copy of this pamphlet in my poissession , is written , in the hand of the late Mr . Llndsey f " By the Rev . Dr . May 6 , on < i of the Tutors at Horaerton . " A . ©*
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and if some few corrections wese made relative to the abbreviations of words now considered as blemishes in composition , I cannot but think it would furnish a most useful addition to the best books in our language . The old edition is openly printed on a full type and therefore I am of opinion the whole may be easily comprized in two 12 mo . volumes for cheapness , and that so offered to the public , they would meet a most extensive sale . Let us hope to see such an edition of the Old Whig soon announced to the public M ^ ARCUS *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 201, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/25/
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