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Art . t I . History of Dissenters ^ from the ^ . evolut io n in 1 & 8 8 , to the Year 1 808 . In four Volumes * By David Bogue and James Bennett . Vols . 1 and 2 , 8 vo . London , Williams aud Smith ,
The subject of this publication rs , in many vievvs of great importance ; and thinking men will perhaps admit that it may be treated with hiore effect by non-conformist writers of taste and judgment , than by authors who , though equally able , are of another communion . A dissenter feels a
stronger interest than any one besides , in making those inquiries into the p&st and present state of his brethren , which are requisite for drawing up a faithful account of them ; while his situation and connections furnish him with very
favourable opportunities of pursuing his investigation . Such , or nearly such are the advantages with which Mr . Bogue und Mr . Bennett now appear before the world ; and had they executed their task with tolerable care they should luive received our thanks .
We always considered it as an inauspicious circumstance , that the work was to be a joint production . Sensible as we are of the benefits of co-operation in most htoYrian concerns , still we are of
o pinion , that in writing a history it is ^ either not required at all or Squired in a very limited degree : when it exteftds beyond the supply of original material j and the exafiliation of documents and referc ttces , it can scarcely be other-
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wise than destructive of that unity of method and composition whicjt is essential in every such performance . In some literary engagements this sort of concurrence i $ , not merely admissible , but " neeesC sary . Thus , for example , eveft the learned and laborious edmpU ler of our best Cyclopcedia could not fulfil his own wishes and the
expectations of the public , without the assistance of gentlemen conversant with the several departments of science ; and the editor of the Pantologia ^ master , though he be , of diyers arts and
languages , a surgeon , a natural - ist , a biographer and a poet , is , nevertheless , supplied with a coadjutor . Until ot late , it-is only in such cases that a firm of du + thurs has been allowed . For the
age in which we live , it was v $ + served to witness co-partnerships , in histories and epic po < mis . As impartial justice should be the aim of Reviewers , we ^ re riot a little desirous of assigning to the
gentlemen before us that share of commendation , or of censure , to whicli they are respectively entu ' tied . Unfortunately , we are left in ignorance of the amount of their individual contributions to
our i ^ stucti entertainment * So , when two persons contract for a clergy *> r a city feast , "
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1809, page 501, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1740/page/27/
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