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£ & 4 $ S n >^ er be satisfied with his o ^ g frfo fpm nces , nor think them cofti | t ^| i <> ugh / f DISCURSOR . ' ¦ ¦ " •! ' . ' ? ¦ " ' ' ¦ V- . ¦
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. 4 ff- * -J ~ "" Ch 0 &erg ' s General Biographical } . [ )~\ " Dictionary \ MgfriS rine of tliose who watch
the periodical and popular literar / productions of the day , with a p $ 0 ipular view Jo the spirit and character of the authors who are likety to influence the times . With son * &f * argt'rne 6 s J lately procured thesis ! volume *> f the New «
Geweral biographical Dictionary ' , ediling ^ by Alexander Chalmers , and ac ^ ory e ^ aniination of it has , I confess ,, afforded me pleasure . It seemVto' he m&tje extensive in its
plarffth ^ n any similar work the English v language ; and it is a great * recommend at idfl of it , that the *\ vorkfc of authors are specified
wth . illtrti ' tlt & at length , in their proper form an < jl language , and witlTtheir respective dates ^ , The omission of s ^ riptuie ^ biography is , fIso , a n , iinprovement .
'Pfere ^ 'fs / hqwever , one consi - dtr «)^ Q blemish in v the work : ^ h ^ tblf ilive ^ v ( several ^ persons Qi tHl » flame ijame are ^ iven , they are fiuddled together without chro * rftt
^ l ^ gifc ^ i a ngtment . I perciiv ^} indeed , that they aiein the al p ^ ab ^ iic « il cycSdz oi t ^ rfr (^ hris ^ tian * . or * fi ' r ^ names j b ul ! thif A * the P Qr ^ est and n ? ea »^ t of , aU modes
w cla& | ficritian 4 ^ 'ju .. - ' *' : . -v * ¦'' - W ^ SM jMkianu tyskop Jtl * t * & % * & <^ S 3 B 1 . ) lo have i afeilhllftS ^ 11 fimm m ^ m ^ lMmm ^
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Ainswortfcs Annotations are represented as containing only the
Pentateuch ( p . 261 . ); whereas they contain ail his Annotations ^ viz . on the Pentateuch , the Psahng and Conticles * > Upon the whole , the work is
free from a party spirit . From this praise , however , must be excepted the whole of the article * Alembert ^ or , as it is more com *' monly and properly given , D At ~ embert . , How could Mr . Chal *
mers revile the authors of the French Encyclopaedia upon suchauthority as the Abbe Borruel ® A persuasion of thedangerousness of discussion fs no good qualif ? - *' cation for a general literary biograpber * , .
We may notice also two minor exceptions . RicharcT Ada * ms 7 one of the . , ejected ministers ^ is * called ( p . 141 . ) 44 an Anabapttst teacher / ' Thb term Anabaptist is not def » cripti % c , but reprorrchi
fill . They who practice * arcMlt baptism by immersion-, hold every * other mode of' administering ' ' tlife ceremony to iimilidate it as fc ; scriptural rite , and to maie * H nothing at alL The epithet is abartdoned to the small retrittant ^ f
theological bigots , —In the a < *^ count of John Alewantle * , A diM senting teacher , mention'fe ' -irrAHg of his posthumous work'otj ttt ^ xv . chap , of Gotfaithij ^ pfcrtilisfif ^ rf by John Palmtrj and" it re adtf&cf ( p . 4150 fti Mr . # topr b « #% e ; stowed btgh praise ofr the' criticat
sagacity and leai-nmg dispWyed tit * * this work . 7 ^ it sotnt dittoctioTk frotn its fntm ^ tom&m ^ tkm ik * the ptelintimrt 4 t * 8 e * to&bt * £ * W ' # ^* favou r * * fc ^ Whrg ^ < nv state tf \ ct ^ $ cioiisn ^ ^ ^ € atk ^ Q ^ ^^ * Jvkttwerits , fa ** 6 thtr respect , d
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1812, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1751/page/17/
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