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    terate from his mind all memory that he was a father , a patriot and a Christian , we do not know . It becomes us to be still , and to remember that there is One who knoweth the end

    from the beginning . ' * While I should join in this sentiment , I would as soon talk of influencing the most raving in St . Luke ' s by religion , as to connect either it or the want of it , irt any way with the death of Sir Samuel RomiJJy . I cannot consider the death of Sir

    Samuel Romilly 0 s a delicate subject : that his glorious sun should have set in such horrors , is to ' be dep lored j but I see no reason for alluding to the mercy of God , in reference to this event , as your Correspondents [ XIII .

    pp . 685 and 701 ] have done . The idea of mercy being extended implies the possibility of guilt ; but , thkt guilt can be itnputable to Sir Samuel , in respect of his death , is with ine beyond the verge of possibility .

    I am not advocating suicide : I leave this question for any who may be inclined to discuss it- My only object in addressing you in this paper has been to enter my protest against the indelicate insinuation that the

    death of Sir Samuel detracts from the excellence of his life ; to assert my perfect accordance with Mr . Belsham , that he was torn from us by a mysterious visitation of Divine Providence ;

    and to throw out the hint , to be improved by others in more commanding stations than myself , should they see the propriety of it , that some public memorial of this truly exemplary individual would reflect credit on the

    British public . While the members of a public institution , in a neighbouring country , received an eloquent and just eulogiurn on this great man , it cannot be fitting that in Britain , the scene of his labours , the only notice of him

    should be tlifc pqlpit hints of a few individuals , who , however respectable in talents and character , belong to a sect greatly spoken against , and cannot , therefore , be considered as representing the feeling of the nation . J , FULLAGAR .

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    Sir , July 6 , 181 0-YOUR Correspondent Homo [ p . 2263 appears to have mistaken Dr * Johnson ' s meaning , as I think he \ yill immediately perceive on recon-

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    sidering the passage in the Lives of the Poets , to which he refers . IJonio supposes that Johnson claimed for Gilbert West a pre-eminence in tried

    virtue , when compared with other men , whereas I apprehend all he there designs is to compare him with the other poets of his time , too many of them licentious in their lives and

    writings , Johnson had very lately said at the end of Watts s Biography , " he is at least one of the few poets with whom youth and ignorance may ^> e safely pleased / ' What then was , most

    probably , the biographer ' s design , but what I have supposed when he said of West 9 " that a stroke of the palsy brought to the grave one of the few poets to whom the grave might be without its terrors ' ? POETICUS .

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    412 Johnson ' s Character of West . —Remarks en Inspiration . 1 1

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    Cranbrook , Sir , May 26 , 181 Q . HOPE I shall be pardoned in at-I tempting to illustrate a subject that I think is very often'

    misunderstood , and the misconception of which is attended with difficulty , and often with injury to religion . It is that of inspiration . Inspiration is , I think , often , if not always , confounded with revelation ; but L presurjie they are two distinct things . " All Scripture

    is given by inspiration , " says the A postlc Paul ; or , as some read it , " All Scripture given by inspiration is p rofitable for doctrine" &c . It matters not which way we read the passage , the difficulty is the same . In the latter case we want to distinguish between

    the Scripture that is given by inspiration , and that which is not . But if by inspiration we only understand that influence which is necessary to etiable or compel a tnan to speak or write that which he perfectly knows , the difficulty ceases : and that such

    an inspiration is necessary , in some cases , none I think will deny . Such an inspiration appears to have been necessary to the Jewish historians : for though they knew the facts of their history , yet the detail

    of these facts must often have been unpleasant to a Jew , as he would have to record the folly , the weakness and - the wickedness of his countrymen ; as such he would be under strong temptations to prevaricate

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/12/