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MISCELLANEOUS COMMUNICATIONS.
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ployed in attempting to correct their writings . To these attainments he added uncommon skill in palaeography , a branch of knowledge which he applied with more success to critical purposes than perhaps any other individual . Nor was he less conversant in the
literary history of the ancients , or in their manners and customs , so far as the knowledge of them tends to the illustration of their literature . The consequence of
these attainments , actively employed as they always were , was an uncommon and almost unrivalled skill in the exercise of the critical art . Of this the works
which he has published afford sufficient evidence ; 3 'et it is equally known to those who have witnessed his literary discourse , that they furnish but an imperfect evidence of the extent of his talents , and contain but a very small portion
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notes 15 y dr . franklin , on the opening of essex street Chapel .
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To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .
Ilolty House , Sept . 9 , 1 808 . JSear East Grznstead . sir .
In addition to the letters of Dr . Franklin , published in your first Volume , I bos leave to offer you the enclosed short notes , which
you may think worthy of preservation for the sake of the writer aiyl the transaction to which they refer . These notes were found like the letters among the papers of Mr . George Wimtlov , of whom my
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Notes by Dr . Franklin on the opening of Essex Street Chapel . 53 $
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of those sagacious observations and discoveries with which it was in his * power to have enriched the world , ancL which he was accustomed in conversation to impart without restraint , and with ah ease and readiness from which it might seem that the attainment
of them had scarcely cost him au effort . On the whole we have to regret the loss of a most extraordinary man ; one of the few who
will always stand in the first ranks of the branches of science or literature which they have respectively cultivated . We have spoken of Mr . Person" only as a critic ,
his public and professed literary character . It may be added that there were few branches of « enerai knowledge in which hjs attainments were not considerable ^ D .
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writing , —17 April , 1774 . Dr . Franklin . Mr . \ V . was an intimate friend of Lord Le Desponcer , who
aplate father was one of the nephews and the executor . They are both endorsed in Mr . Whatley ' s hand MM _ ¦ M A *^ . . _ A ^^ r » w
pears to have sennt him the note of 'Dr . Franklin , not knowing that he had received one . I am , Sir , Your obedient servant , Robert Mau&ii Wiutley . 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/15/
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