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Dr . HanvoocPs letter to me , and also was the cause that his letter came first to my nephew ^ as my nephew ' s letter to me on the oc . casion will explain . 6 C Dear Uncle ,
' A long time ago hearing that Dr . Harwo ^ d was to publish a new edition of his book on the Classics , and willing to contribute any thing in my power towards the perfection of a work so valuable to every student , I took the liberty to write
a letter to him containing a list of errors , omissions , &c * which I had observed in consulting ir , and suggesting some additions . I also reminded him of bis promise to the public of writing a third volume to his 'Introduction to the New
Testament , ' which should contain an explication of all the sacred phraseologies from passages of the Greek Classics . " As he was taken ill about the time , he never gave me any answer , and I never minded it more
To day Anderson and Co . have sent me a letter from him , which by mistake was directed to you in place of me . Inclosed is a sight
of it . He confounds you and me together , and the letter is a curious medley of answers to me , and observations which can only apply to you . u Yours , T . C . "
My chief reason far publishing Dr . Harwood ' letter , is , for the sake of the sentiment con . tained in that part of it which I have distinguished by Italics , which
coming from an eminent Greek scholar , and one formerly attached to Ariantsm ^ I think deserves to be recorded . As my nephew wished
to correspond farther with Dr . Harwood on the subject of the Classics , I returned the letter to him , but took an exact copy of it beforehand , as follows :
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" London , Dec . 30 If 8 i > " Worthy Mr . Christie , iC Some time ago I had the ho . nour of receiving jrom you a letter concefning . some editions of the Classics , which letter I- mislaid .
and having been long confined by a dreadful paralytic stroke , I la . ment that I have not been able to recover . Little did I then imagine , that the learned gentleman , who appeared to have given so much attention to the best editions of the
ancient writers , would have manu fested in the world such a signal and striking proof of religious integrity , in -displaying to a region which for so many centuries has been £ the valley and . shadow of
death , the glorious effulgence of the divine Unity . I write to thank you for your learned and excellent Discourses , which I have read with great satisfaction and , improvement . The Divine Unity stands on an immoveable basis ,
whatever our trivial differences may be with regard to the nature of Christ . I am inclined to think that Socinianism , when the diction and phraseology of the New Tes . tarhent are hitter understood * will
be foundto be the doctrine of Scrip turc . I have 'written in favour of Arianism these twenty years , but I hesitate , and I have given a proof of piy candour and diffidence in my little Tract " Of the Soci . nian Scheme * ' You , are greatly
to be commended not only for your own illustrious probity , but for the exemplary diligence you have employed in planting and waterings little church in an extensive and
populous country , which has so long been corrupted with Trinitarian idolatry . Your reward will be great . The present satisfaction indeed 3 ou must enjoy in the consciousness of having instituted and esta-
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130 Account of Mr . William Christie
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 130, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/2/
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