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they presume publicly to arraign in others . I remain , Sir , Your obedient servant , GEORGE WALKER ,
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June I a , 1810 . My dear Sir , I am much concerned to understand that you are still in a disagreeable state of difference Witli thetrustees of the Manchester New College . The more I reflect upon this business , the more I lament your declining to acjoj 3 t the reconciliatory pt-oje ' t which I submitted to
your consideration soon after Christmas last ; though 1 cannot but respect the motives which influenced your decision upon this point . In Compliance with your request , I now send you in writing my opinion on the matters in discussion between you and the trustees * which you will find to
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cleanings ; orr selections and reflections made in a course of General reading
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No . LXXIII . Satan ' s Strange Actings , In 1697 9 there was published , in London , an account of the cake of a person believed t 6 be possessed by the deyil , under the
following title : The Surey Dc 9 ? ioniac Or $ n Account of Satan ' s strange and dreadful Actings , in and about the Body of Ricftard Dugdale of Sureyi > near WhalUy , in Lancashire . And how he was dispose
sessed by God \ s Blessing on the Fastings and Prayers of divers Ministers and People , The Matter of Fact attested by the Oaths of several creditable Persons *
before some of his Majesty ' s Justices of tie Peace in the said County . These dreadful actings of Satan continued above a year ; during which there was a desperate strug-
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be exactly the same as jtiyas settled , sooa after my conference . "With those gentlem ^ n . Namely , ¦ ist . That I am per&iaded it wattiot your intention , in Rawing up the statement which has given IP £ ; to this unpleasant altercation , to reject upon the character of the trustees . w
fcdly . That the trustees hairing effected two distinct contracts with your fathery did , discharge the obligations by which they were bound , in pursuance of each of those contractsi 3 dly . That , nevertheless , your statement , as qualified to intiniate , " that
your father dia * not receivej during the * whofo term of his prof * ssorship * the emolument 'which he enjoyed during t % e earfy period of his engagement ^ h CO RRECT , as I think his SECOND bargain was FAR lESS ADyANTAGEOUS THAN THE FIRST . * - ¦ ' . - Believe me , - ¦ -- * Yours , truly , ; WILLIAM SHEP 3 HUSRD .
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gle between lxim and nine ministers of the gospel , vyho had undertaken to cast him out ; and fbf that purpose , successively relieved each other in their daily combats with him : while Satan tried all his
arts to fyaffile their atlernpts , insulting them with scoffs arid raillery ; puzzling them sometimes with Latin and Greek ; and threatening them with tfie effects of his vengeance ; till he was finally vanquished ajid put to flight by the persevering praj'ers and fastings of the said ministers .
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No . LXXIV , A Christian Poet rebuked by a JHussulmtiti . An anecdote in the Memoirs of Klopstock , lately published , shows in a striking manner how much
* V The first bargam wasjnade with Mr . Walker when at Nottingham , on the faith pf which he removed to Map Chester ; the second was a regulation adopted hf tJic trustees themselves , during Mr . W . ' s absence on a visit to Lopdpn .
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352 Gleanings .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1810, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2406/page/32/
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