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We have now , though late , discharged the pleasing duty of laying the substance of Mr . Fox ' s pamphlet before our readers . We would recommend that it be perused together with Dr . Smith ' s Sermon , The doctor has in our opinion done all that could be done in defence of his thesis ; but we err greatly if every dispassion-
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Dr-. Parr ' s Biographical Memoir ef the late Mr . William Henry Lunn . pThe following paper is drawn up by the eminent scholar whose name appears a ^ bove , to preface the new Catalog-ue of the late Mr . Lunti * s bookselling * stock , under the title of " An Address to the well-wishers
and customers of the late Mr . William Henry Lu&n .. We give it entire , and shall rejoice if our insertion of it in the Monthly Repository , shall in any degree second the object of the benevolent writer . Ed . ] "IT is with peculiar satisfaction that the friends of Mr . I / uuu submit the following Statement of Facts to an enlightened and generous Pablic .
They well . know that soundness of judgement , and that liberality of spirit , by which English Scholars are eminently distinguished , "they are convinced that , in enumerating the services of Mr . Lunn to the cause of literature , they will find intelligent
and attentive readers . They feel that , in their exertions to assuage the sorrows , and to provide for the comforts , of an afflicted Widow and two fatherless Children , they will not appeal in vain to the experience of the learned , and . the sensibility of the benevolent .
Mr . Lunn resided as a Bookseller at Cambridge for ten years . In March , 1797 , he came to London , and succeeded Mr . Samuel Hayes in Oxford Street . On his removal into . Soho Square , in 1801 , lie , by the advice of Scholars and with the
approbation of friends , established the Classical Librar y upon a new and extensive plan . His views were announced in a perspicuous and even elegant Advertisement , in which , with a tone of thinking far raised above the narrow and selfish views
of a mind intent only upon profit , he endeavoured to interest in his own favour sucfe persons , as habitually look with veneration to the memory of Bentley , to the erudition of llemsterhuis , and his , illustrious School , and to the sagacity , taste and Jearing of our celebrated countryman , Richard . Porson .
Other Booksellers Had been accustomed to provide for purchasers , publications in the modern , as well as the ancient languages : Mr * Lunn resolved to act up faithfull y and rigorously ta the name , which he had chosen for his own collection .
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ate judge will not allow after an af . lentive reading of Mr . Fox ' s Le tters that much more remaios ito be done before the popular doctrine can be entitled to the reception of any one who can read his Bible for himself and who has a head to estimate theological truth and a heart to be affected with moral sentiments .
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i i He immediately entered into various and important negotiations with Booksellers upon the continent . He confine *! bis attention to such Works , as were interestin g to Scholars only . But , in order to supply their demands , he took a wide and varied range . With an activity , and perhaps we may add , mag-n&niimty , which men of 1
learningcannot fail to applaud , he ventured to bring- together many Principes Editiones . He did not shrink from the purchase of other editions , expensive from their bulk , their splendour , or th ^ ir rarity . He amassed large numbers of the Delphine Editions , and of those , which are called Variorum . He was upon the watch to
procure new editions of classical Worki published by Foreign Scholars of his : own time , and he took the most judicious measures for obtaining them early . To critical and philological Books he was peculiarly attentive 5 and whether we consider the numher or the usefulneas of those ,
which the Classical Library supplied , we cannot wonder that the zeal and the judgment of Mr . Lunn in collecting tiiem attracted the notice of the curious , and the favour of the learned . The ardour of his mind induced him to take a lnrge share in valuable and costly
publications from the presses of Cambridge , Oxford , Edinburgh , Glasgow , and London . The cost of reprinting * Broiler ' s Tacitus under the superintc ' ndance of Mr . Valpy fell upon Mr . Lunn only . Among other Works , in which he was concerned with respectable men of the trade ,
Wakefield ' s Lucretius , Ernest ? s Cicero , DrakenborcJis Limj , Schleusner ' s Lexicon , MorelVs Thesaurus , improved-and enlarged by Dr . Mai thy , and Scamla ' s Lexicon , deserve to be enumerated . He had
engag-ed to take several copies of the Herodotus , which is row preparing for-the p ress by Professor Schweighaen&er ; and 111 consequence of the connexions , ' which he »* gradually formed with the literati ofc tn kingdom , he so far deviated from h > s orginal design , as to undertake the V \ ' tion of a few Tracts in the Oriental 1 * - guag-es . « ^ j " His vigilance and integrity wer J * f fested in the good condition his * c »» > and perhaps w <* hove to commend ins 1 nificence , rather than his discretion , >»
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5 £ 0 Ohitutnry .- *—MT £ . William Henry Limn .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 520, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/56/
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