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ing to thirty . nine . ( iii . xxviii and xxx ii ) .-,,.. This work was u originally dedicated ' ' to the Duchefcs of i \ orih - umherland , daughter of Lady Hertford , the friend of Dr . Watts an < i Mrs . R « wc \ The Duchess bemg dead before the appearance of the fourth edition , that is eonsecratfd to her beloved nnd honoured memory * ' ' 1 he Editor having frequent occasion to celebrate the ancient Percys , could not fail to attract the notice of the modern possessors of their wealth and titles . This publication is indeed understood to have procured for him the appointment of-domestic chaplain to the Duke , and thus to have rendered his advancement in the chuieh no longer
problematical . — Mr . Percy , however , was not content without shewing that he ^ had paid attemiori , amidst bis literary pursuits , to subjects immediately connected with his clerical pretensions .
In this-siame year ( 1765- ) $ he published ihatjustly popular" little manual ^ '' as * he names it in a dedication to the Bishop of Durham , * A Key to the New T «** a n * e&ti ; giviug . an account of
the several books , their'contents , tfoeii * &ttthors , and of the times , places ? a » nd < occasipns . on which thejyoiwere respectively written / 7 lm < an , unassuming preface , it is remarked that - a clear int < ro-djuc ..
tory iilusirarion of the several biM » lp » of the New Testament , shewing ; the design of ( heir wri-. ter * v the nature of their contents , andm wbateyer \ Gk& » is previously necesactry to their being read wittt uiuieFfetanding , is avvork \ that r if wellwexecutedi , must prove the best of commentaries * and- foe * quently ^ euperseda the want of mil oth « r ^ Of this work . 4 5 the cou-
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tents are chiefly extracted ¥ rfcm two eminent writers , BlicfcaleUs * and Lardner . The forftier Y&i displayed so mdeh ingeniifty aitif discernment , and the hittet Such a depth of learniti ^ , as gtv ^ tTfti ' greatest advantage to Such as ^ vouFcJ avail themselves of their labours . A friend of the erfhor siip ^ HMd A t ; short account of tht ? seVe / r ^ sects and heresies that pret&it <* tf in the times of Christ and liik Apostles *; * ' ^ lso 4 < A Key to thV Prophecies contained in tire Rev , elation- " This little work hiftfcf passed through several edition ^/ and been adopted in the Universities . Jn 1 769 ^ Mr . Percy preached the iC Sermon before ttie Sb ^ n ^ iol
the Clergy , at their arifrual Mc 6 t * ing at St . Paul's / ' The samQ year he was appointed-one-of tire royal chaplarYte , and pifbbatb ^ now took his degree of Dbiptdl * of Divinity . * ¦ '
In 1770 , he appeared again as an editor * The 1 ctiriou # ; HVbtj ^ committed tb his care ^ e hacTofeS casioh to quote , and it is frequently rpferred to , ¦ in jhe \ kst' edition of the Kdkj ^ s- ^ a ^ th e No ^ rtS umherlanrf BtxuseAdld $ o 6 & * 1 $ is entitled "The Regulations 4 ^< J ' Esttablishments of the * ^ lotis ^ fac ^ t
of Henry Algerflon Perfejjr ^ r St # Earl of NorthumberlatfcJi * - f ? 9 f 1512 to 1525 . It appears thaTt 1 c a siriall impr ^ stri on was ' pri iiNrf iafe
by ordeff < rf ^^^ tfre D ^ ke * rt $ Dutehees bf 1 ^ -oitBinttVcMW bestow in presents to their friends ;" but it has been aince reprinted entire inr the 4 th vofume of tim
sreond edition of the Antiquariaa ( l ^ pertory , 4 tou In the Edifi 6 i # * Pi efeicey ^ bis 5 th Earl is desc rHietf a * a " m ^ bl ^ ro ^ n of great raegmtf * cence at « l > tosteV who had a ^»» t passion for literature ; and was a
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70 Literary Memoir of Dj . Percy , late Bishnj ) of Dromore .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 70, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/6/
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