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refused the application , alledging tliat the laws were sufficiently < vigorous for their own pi-otectjjn . "
Bishop Hurd , by the strict decorum of his life , the liberal courtesy of his manners , and the reputation which he justly acquired as a scholar and a divine , would have been an ornament to
any communion , while his opinions respecting the magistrate ' s superintend a nee of religion ^ and a disposition to cast ail awful veil over mysteries rather than to attempt
their explanation , would have probably caused him to leave as corrupt in doctrine and as superstitious in ceremonials as he found it , any church in Christendom where he happened to be placed . Those
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Among the various arts and sciences which have during the last century been cultivated with distinguished success , and which have received important improvements , both in their theory and
practice , may be numbered that of criticism . The example . given in England byBentley , was emulated in Holland by JJemsterhusius and his celebrated disciples , Valckenaer and Ruhnkcnius . Nor
in this island has there been wanting a succession of eminent jnen wIk > have honourably sustained the literary reputation of their Country . A mono * the . first of the . e must
w placed the name of the late IVotessor Porson , a man wIiom * raiv talents and extraordinary afliiinme-nts justly made him the _ A
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who , after the scriptural researches of more thaii two centuries , would now stop in the road of reformation at the exact point
where our Rid leys and Latimers had arrived , it is to be feared , would not have accompanied those confessors so far , against the frowns of power and through tb < i fires of persecution . They would rather have discovered arguments
for trausubstantiatirm from t \ ic unexplained phraseology of scripture , equal to those which support a Trinity , or might have lvfrired the people to their established guides in faith and worship , proposing that inquiry , venerable for
its antiquity , " have any of the rulers believed ?" R .
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admiration of his age . It is unfortunate indeed not for his own fame , which is sufficiently established , but for the interests ot literature , that the merit of his
labours must J > e estimated rather by their value than by their number . He has unlmppily been cut of ! ' at a period of life , when much
might still have been expected ixom him , at a , period when the intellectual powers are usually in their full vigour , when reflection has methodized the stores of knowledge which diligence has accu . initiated ^ and time and experi
ence have given maturity and consistency to the judgments of the mind . If it sjiould be thought , notwithstanding this consideration , that the literary productions ot Mr . Porson are still inadequate
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Literary Memoir of the late Professor Porson . 533
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. LITERARY MEMOIR OF THE I , ATE PROFESSOR POitSOX .
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VOL . iji . 4 B
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 533, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/9/
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