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Memomhf the Idle Rich . Hurd , D . D . Bp , of Worcester . 461
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the laStjServe to strengthen rather than to detract from " sundry constitutional doctrines /' In the fifth editioh arc three notes which were not in the edition of 176 O .
1 . C ; Milton did not forget to observe in his ^ Tenure of Kings &nd Magistrates , that William the Norman , though a conqueror , and not unsworn at his coronalion , was compelled a second time to take oath at St . Alban ' s
ere the people would be brought to yield obedience / 1 2 , "It may be of little moment to us , at this day , to inquire how far the princes of the house of Stuart , were blameable for their endeavours to usurp on the
con-&titution » But it must ever be of the highest moment to maintain , that we had a constitution to assert against them . Party writers perpetually confound these two things ; it is the author ' s pur * pose in these two dialogues to con * tend for the latter * . *
The third note , which is not found in the edition of 1760 , is on Hume ' s history , to account for its political complexion from his ''having by some odd chance written the history of the Stuarts firstf . "
lhe omissions in the huh edition are two . The first is a short note on the u Alliance between Church and State /' against which some moderate divines of the established church , are said to iC have taken offence , "
and " the dissenter * to a man . " The latter no doubt are intended b y <* the saints , " who " yoarn to see the rubbish of hitman ordinances taken out of the w . ay $ and the god ! y work of reformation jpushed on to gospel perfection !/*
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The other omissron in the fifth edition is a note of considerable length , on Hume ' s . '' Apology for the House of Stuart . " At the close of the note . " u the reader
is left to himself to answer that insulting question , " proposed by the historian , " ickether it * was the people who encroached upon the sovereign ^ or the sovereign tcku attempted to usurp on the peoplt % y
' 1 he loss of this passage is much to be regretted , as it contained a high approbation of the patriot ! who first opposed the rights of the people to the pretensions of diaries . The omission may pci >
haps be not unfairly attributed to the change , which ^ soon after the commencement of a new reign > had taken place in the language of the court , respecting " the un * happy Scottish line / ' so mariy adherents of that family having
now transferred their allegian ce * Thai Mr . Hurd would be duly observant of this change cannot be reasonably doubted * Not would his growing intimacy with courtiers , especially with Lord Mansfield , render him less induf * gent to the memory of the House of Stuart . Yet after alL
The right divine of kings to govern wrong , and , The enormous fa id * of ninny made for one , appear to be as uniformly expLod * ed , while the popular origin of jusfc government , and the antiquity of a freje constitution in England , arc as fully asserted in the fifth edition of the dialogues as in the second , or ns any advocate for a limited
monarchy can desire At least we have not been able to make any u notable discoveries" Co the contrary . We are not giving the panegyric of bishop Hurd , nor is it to ^ be
* Mor . and PriLJ&ial . gth E-d . 1776 , ii . ? A'X . & 3 ^ 3 . f Ibid & 236 * . J Ibid , 3 d £ d . 1760 , p , 37 £ * § Ibii * jpp * 3 « # ~~» 3 * $ v / n
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/5/
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