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have long known to be a person of excellent understandings and of great moral worthy an assiduous and faithful minister of the gospelj respected and beloved by all who have the pleasure of knowing him . I willingly bear this testimony to his character , because I am apprehensive that in the course of the discussion , I have sometimes thought it necessary , injustice to
the subject , to advance some remarks which may have been unpleasant to his feelings . It is difficult in controversy to observe a proper medium ; and language is sometimes taken in a sense different from what the writer expects and intends . If therefore
any expressions of asperity have occurred beyond the limits of propriety , I hope that my friend will excuse them , and will regard them as intended wholly for his system ^ and not personally to himself . I have not intentionally misrepresented his meaning ; and if I am convicted of mistake , I shall thankfully retract .
I seek not for victory but for truth ^ and I esteem no triumph more honourable than the correction of error , and no acquisition more valuable , than that of moral and religious truth . And nowj Sir ^ with many thanks to yourself , and to your
numerous readers , for the indulgence I have experienced , andwitl * earnest wishes for the increasing success of your liberal and [ useful Repository , Hackney , I am your obliged Servant , Nov . 9 , 18 O 7 . T , BELSHAM ,
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PROLOGUE TO A THEATRICAL EXHIBITION , AT THE COMMENCEMENT QW A SCHOOL-VACATION . Spkoen by one of the Scholars . Ladies ! I know thry tell me but the truth . That you will listen nor despiseour youth ; They tell me too that manhood will attend ^ . And kindly lose the censor in the friend , Recal the years departed ^ and enjoy Again , the first ambition of a boy . Yes ! wq aspire upon this narrow stage , The gay to interest , nor disgust the sage ; Yet our ' s no critic iury to appease , Your smiles await the honest wish to plea se *
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$ 0 O Prologue to a Theatrical EjvhzSztzon *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 600, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/36/
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