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    bring a charge against him , which , if substantiated , would affect his moral reputation far more than even his servility to Warburton , for which gratitude to a great benefactor might plead an excuse . In a respectable publication we are told , that the king , putting his hand one day upon hvs dialogueSj said , 'These made Hurd a bishop ; and , I never saw him till he came to kiss hands * . " Such is the sanction said to be given by the highest authority in the , church of England to the expectation of clerical preferment as the reward of literary , rather than of theological

    cminence * What young aspiring ecclesiastic , who reads this anecdote , will not be induced to wander over 6 ' the Aonian mount , " rather than to be a . frequent visitant at

    — « Sion Hill , or Siloa ' s brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God . " The charge against Mr . Hurd founded on his publication of the dialogues ^ is the following . The editor of " Tracts , " &c . evidently

    designs for our author the affirmative , while he givos in the form of negation , the following praise to Warburton . Ci He never thought it expedient to save appearances by shaking off the c shackles of consistency ; ' to soften the hideous

    aspect of certain lincourtly opinions , by a calm and progressive apostacy ; to expiate the artless and &ni mated effusions of his youth ,

    b y the example of a temporizing knd obsequious old age , lie began not his course as " others have done with speculative republicanism , nor did he end it , as the

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    same persons are now doing , wi t !* practical toryism . He was a churchman without bigotry . Hd was a politician without duplicity . He was a loyalist without servilityf , " In support of the heavy censure of Mr . Hurd , which this passage

    implies , we are referred to the following note on " uncourtly opinions . " *< I am told by one , whom I esteem the best Greek scholar in

    this kingdom , ami to whom th < i hat of Bent ley would have * vailed , ' that many notable discoveries might be made by comparing the varice lectioncsy the clippings and the filings , the softenings and the varnishings of sundry constittu tidnal doctrines , as they crept by little and little into the different successive editions of certain political dialogues } :. " Many readers of these passages will be at no loss to conjecture

    whom the reputed editor of cc Tracts / ' &c . so competent to decide such a question , would " esteem the best Greek scholar

    in this kingdom / ' Yet this heavy accusation of political apostacy being anonymous , it had certainly been more equitable to have given satisfactory references to

    " the varice lectiones ^ ' and to have produced at least a few spe <* cimens of 4 * the clippings and the filings . " For want of these we

    have carefully compared the second edition , of 1760 , not being able to procure the first , with the fifth , of 1776 , afc to the " Political Dialogues , " It will be

    found , we &re persuaded , by any 6 fie wjjo makes the same export mej > t f that the varratiohfc are merely verbal , ia ajl but the following'instances * wbich , except

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    460 Memoir of the late Rich . Hurd * D . E > . Bp . of Worcester

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    ? Gent . Mag . lxxvui . 563 . f Tracts , &c . p . 156 * \ Ibid .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 460, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/4/