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    and ingenuous minds , that are willing to hear , and ready to obey according to their light ; that it is impossible a pure , humble , resigned , god-like soul should be kept

    out of Heaven , whatever mistakes it might be subject to in this state of mortality ; that the design of Heaven is not to fill men ' s heads , and feed their curiosities , but to better their hearts and mend their

    lives . Such considerations as these made him impartial in his disquisitions , and give a due allowance to the reasons of his adversary , and contend for the truth and not for victory . " P . 17 * P . 208 . Le Clerc , Your

    correspondent probably knows that there is in latin an account of the life and works of this scholar to the year 1711 , and published that year in 12 mo . It affects to be the performance of a friend , Amici ejus opusculum , but 1 apprehend has been generally considered as his own . 1 am not aware

    of any commendations indecorous , on this supposition . It " as * incidentally mentioned ( p . ^ R ^ p hat Locke communicated to his friend Le Clerc , his Essay previous to its publication . For , quoting an

    opinion of Le Clerc ' s it is added , In hac sententia se mtri postea con * firmatum sensit , anno 1688 , dim legisset viri actitissimi loan s Lockii specimen de intellectu hutnano , quod nondum erat editum .

    The late Dr . Towers mention . ed to me , not long before his death , that he had projected a Memoir of Le Clerc upon an extensive plan , to include notices of

    bis literary friends . Dr . T ' s near relation , to whom his papers have descended , can probably gratify your * ' Correspondent from Chesterfield , * ' and Others of your rea-

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    ders on this point . He may als © f probably , be able to give some information respecting 46 Dr . Caleb Fleming , " with whom Dr .

    T . appears to have been very intimate , for Dr . Kippis , in his Life of Lardner , ( p . xcvi . ) says , «* M y friend , Dr . Towers , has favoured me with the perusal of a series of Letters , written to Dr . Fleming

    by Dr . Lardner , in which he fully disclosed his thoughts concerning me * i and things . " This circumstance has , I think , been mentioned already in one of your early volumes . QUINQUAGENARIUS .

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    Letter from the late Bishop of Derry to a Protestant Dissenting Clergyman ^ on the Catholic Claims . [ From the Belfast Monthly Magazine , October 1811 . ]

    \ Rome , July the 3 d , 1778 . * My Dear Sir , I received your letter of the 3 d May with much pleasure , and read it with great satisfaction : the receipt of it testified you had not

    forgot me , and the contents proved that you did not deserve that I should forget you ; since you are still the same candid , liberal , and free-spirited man that I used to visit with so much satisfaction at

    Burt . You are right , my friend , to call me home at this juncture ; and I shall return with the greater pleasure , since Ireland is no longer what I left it , the land of narrowprejudices , persecution , and

    intolerance ; but of liberty , candour , and indulgence ; and since Parliament has learnt to practice that mildest of all Christian doctrines —of doing to others , as we wish they should do unto u » .

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    246 Letter from the late Bishop of Derry ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1812, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1747/page/38/