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aecdmmbdatfng the journey toiby own feelings , to go ; to stay , to stop , to eat , to fast , just as my feeble stomach will give me leave-It is also as cheap , if not cheaper , titan the road machines . My
youngest son , a sailor just returned from the Levant , and at present on a visit here , intends to rffibi me but and home , and I
indulge myself in indulging him , far he is neither a booby nor a knave ^ but h < 3 is deeply infected with heresy , of which to be sure Dp » Priestley is like to cure
him . Most certainl y , unless all men be liars , the JLeasowes , Hagley , Hales- Owen , KnvHJe » &c » are fine scenes , ajnd tend tQ enrapture the befhbide > tut set to music by Mr . Gentleman ' s wise
conversation 1 & 1 $ &H l&y aside the stare , and dispose tny self to listen and ] enm . Ybu : M ^ e in b # ppy scenes , aad r . i ** iHi £ ratir because I am tethered :-tfcvwillow > , priests , and bogs atld &ft& . i i tbJnfeth £ nted sheet is fine
pri , liecauBeat is tender , and goes to sooth and supple the heart . Ilfte ^ n to set out on Wed nesday , June Slid , to spend tfa ^ t day with a ^^ tiojidam clergyman about Un milek off , a Mr . Hammond , who fled for freedom frpm established creeds and rituals to our
land of liberty , and now shines with peculiar lustre . Thence I proceed by easy stages to Birm - ingham by Saturday night . 1 sh&U b <» free from all engagements b
y Thursday , and intend to get hottiG the Tuesday or Wednesday fligki following ; iPray God im * v nit be iMf ^^ dpted by illnpss . I am , dtfaV- ' Sii * , - with truest esteepi , «*^ l HffettibhaVd y fours ' , ^ H * Robikson , miserably hb ^ j : se »
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OriginalLetter of the late W . Huntington , Bristol , Nov . l 6 , ~ S 6 . Rev'd Father in the Lord , —grace * mercy & peace be with thee ,
If God permit and you approve I will onour your pulpit next Thursday evening—onour it I § ay —with the person of the vilest sin * ner that everliv'd—and in possession of a Hope that can never die .
If you want to know my peddL gree—1 . am by Birth a Beggar , by practice a devil , by trade a coal - hever , by profession- —and possession a sinner saved , by principul
a stiff decenter , and one of God ' s own making , for it was he alone that call'd , ordained me , & sent nae out— -and he has bin my bishop , my tuter , my provider and my defence ever since—else I had
bin kill'd or starv'd long ago— -If you or your people are fond of ihfc origginal languages—of eloquince —orratory—or grammer , I am the man that can disapoint them all .
But if apostolick ignorance will sute them—they will go nigh to gleen a few scraps of that softbut my degrees will promts jiothipg further than that . But to inform
my Rev'd Father a little about my iregularities—I am in my prayers very short—in my sermons short also—unless the master attends
the feast . If so and the cruse gets a spring of oyl in it- ^ then I generally drop all thoughts of working by the day— -nor can I give it up until I have emtied the whole
content- —tho * I know I shall get no more without much knocking and a deal of calling at mercies door . This I call liberality—ami am vain enough to think that it i $ fur * van * charity ^ --fcrid / fti 4 t dji apty which if aply ^ d coveru a multitude of sins—and no wonder when we
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Original ILeifet of " fkelatc WlHuhtingtoh . 70 S
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/13/
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