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fcierufe ; for sail things that I have heard of my Father , I have made known unto you /' To conclude , I earnestly recommend those who are in the habit of preparing these annual Epistles , for the edification and instruction of their brethren , carefully to peruke Mr , Locke ' s observations on
the use and abpse of words , in his admirable Essay concerning the Human Understanding ; an easy arid methodical reference to which
is given in the index . For the take of those who may not have an opportunity of consulting this author , I will transcribe some judicious observations by Lindley
Murray , from the preface to his justly celebrated English Grammar , on the great importance of a Correct use of language , and on the unavoidable consequences of an incorrect and indefinite use of
words . 44 words are the signs of our ideas , and the medium by which inre perceive the sentiments of others ; , and communicate our own ;
tod as signs exhibit the things which they are intended to represent , more or less accurately , according as their real or established conformity to those things is more or toss exact ; it is evident , that to
^ proportion our kno wledge of the nature and properties of words , Of their relation to each other , and Of their established connection , % ith the ideas to which they ar& * ppUedy will be the certainty and Case ; with which we transfuse our
Sentiments into the minds of one Mother , ami that Without a competent knowledge of this kind , we shall frequently be in hazard of ¦^ understanding others , and of being tnijmnderstood ourselves . It ** jr indeed b # justly asserted ,
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that many of the differences in opinion amongst men , with the disputes , contentions , arid alienations of the heart , which have too often proceeded from such differ-, ences , have been occasioned by a want of proper skill , in the connection and meaning of words , and by a tenacious misapplication
of language . " Sincerely wishing a speedy removal of these sources of errorj by the diffusion of useful knowledge and the consequent progress of religious truth , J am , yours , &c . An Unitarian Chkistianv
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The late Duke of Grafton . Sir , Dec . i , 1811 . I am sorry on such respectable authority as in page 651 to correct my information as to the religious consistency which I had willingly attributed to the late
Duke of Grafton . That nobleman must now hold a distinguished station among our Unitaiian Jnconsistents ; few of whom , I apprehend , go so far in occasional conformity as to sanction , by their participation , the idolatrous forms
of the communion service , in which the language used concerning the Ci holy mysteries /* and iC the spiritual food of the most precioiis hody and blood of Christ , " is barely Protestant . The late Duke of Grafton , on a
strict observation of bis conduct ^ must indeed appear to bave beea eminently inconsistent through the whole course of his religious life , by remaining an Unitarian Chancellor of a University TfmjL tar ran in all its forms ao 4 require ments . Let us , however ,
accordino to the ski vice of an elegant and excellent Christian mora&VfcUar
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 721, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/17/
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