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mm of his retired and recluse habits , like his father , he exceeded any of our to wnsmen of his time in many branches of knowledge , especially the mathematics . His superior skill and judgment would accordingly be resorted to on such difficult occasions as required extraordinary scientific expert-| ess or accuracy . In how many instances his townsmen were indebted to
his superior attainments , it is impossible now to say ; but the best plan of the town that has yet appeared , with different views of it and some of its prin * cipal buildings , drawn by him , may be reckoned among those instances .
Except such productions , we know not of any thing else of his that has been published : nor do we know of any thing from his exquisite pen that is now extant besides his Account of the Ejected Ministers , in Latin . Of this notable production there are now in existence at least three copies ; two in his own
hand-writing , one of them deposited in Dr . Williams ' s Library , in London , and the other in St . Margaret ' s Library ,
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Charles James Fox . ( Continued from p . 537 . ) 10 . Persecution of Opinions * ( May 8 , 1789 . ) FOR his own part he should not scruple most unequivocally to
declare that he conceived that religion should always be distinct from civil government ; and that it was no otherwise connected with it , than as it tended to promote morality amongst the people , and thus conduced to good order in the state . No human
government bad a right to inquire into private opinions , to presume that it knew them , or to act on that presumption . Men were the best judges of the consequences of their own opinions , and ho far they were likely to influence their actions ; and it was most
unnatural and tyrannical to say , " As you think so you must at * . I will collect the evidence of your future conduct from what I know to be y our opinions . " * he very reverse of this was the rule ° f conduct which ought to be pursued , Men ought to be judged by their actons , and- not by their thoughts . The <> ne could fee fixed and ascertained * « e other coufcf be only matter of spe-Ration . So fhr was he of this opin-*** tltatf if any man sftoultf publish
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in Lynn : the latter written with almost inimitable neatness . The third copy is a fair transcript of the latter , in two different hands , and in the possession of the present writer . It is entitled " Index Eornrn Theologorum
Aliorumque No . 2257- Qui proptei * ler / m Uxiformitatis , Aug : 24 . An . 1662 , ab Ecclesia Anglicand secesserunt , Alphabetico or dine ac secundum yradus suos dispositus . Cur A ac operA Gulielmi Rastrick . " Then follow , by
way of motto , Zech . i , 5 , in Hebrew ; Heb . xi . 38 , in Greek $ a passage from Erasmus , in Latin $ and one from Locke , in English . At the bottom of the page stands 1734 , denoting , as it would seem , the year in which the MS . was written . Mr . W . R . lived
after that about 18 years , and died in the first week of August 1 752 , just 25 years after his father ; near to whose grave , if not within the same , his re * mains are supposed to have been deposited . He was buried on the 9 th of that month , as appears by the parish register .
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his political sentiments and say in writing , that he disliked the constitution of this country , and give it as his judgment that principles in direct contradiction to the constitution and government were the principles which ought to be asserted and maintained ,
such an author ought not 9 in his judgment , on that account , to be disabled from filling any office civil or military ; but if he carried his detestable opinions into practice the law would then find a remedy , and punish him for his conduct , grounded on his opinions , as
an example to deter others from acting in the same dangerous and absurd manner . No proposition could , he contended , prove more consonant to common sense , to reason and to justice , than that men should be tried by their actions- and not by their opinions :
their actions ought to be waited for and not guessed at , as the probable consequence of the sentiments which they were known to entertain and to profess . If the reverse of this
doctrine were ever adopted , as a maxim of government , if the actions of men were t *> be prejudged from their opinions * it would sow the seeds of jealousy and distrust , it would give scope to private malice , it would sharpen
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Memoir of John Rastrick , M . A . 607
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1815, page 607, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1765/page/7/
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