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tally overlooked any thing of im- portance which it contains * We can only suppose that his mind was so completely occupied by
the object of the controversy in which he was engaged with the celebrated Dr . Clarke , [ what can the reverend prebendary tneanf ] as to make him lose sight of at
least six different sentences in which St . John employ * the word ctyottfyloz in the sense in which it is commonly used by other Greek writers . " And that the reverend gehtleman ' s ingenuousness may be
as conspicuous as his learning and his charityj he frankly confesses that this grand discovery of Mr . B . ' s ignorance and falsehood was not his own , but that he retailed it frorh that oracle of truth and
wisdom * the British Critic for January 1812 , " to which / ' says hej : u l am indebted for pointing out ffo me this blurieier . ' * f How unfortunate is , it that so nitich learning , so mueh critical acumen , so much ptofcAmd
resekrch , and what is rribrte than all , so'itauch Christian chai * itj ? as that which is displayed iti tfoe above paragraph and which -reflects so much credit n ' poh" the revererkl prebendary and 'hiis ^ worthy coadjutors , the British f G # itics , should be all lost , arid wasted upofl a
mei * e shadow . It is grievous to say , but the truth mttst be told , tbat . Mr . B . never made any such silJy unqualified assertion ! as that v ? h 1 < &h \ is here imputed to him . Nor any thing like kv And if the worthy gentleman wishes to know what Mr . B . really did say , What can he do better than follow
hifi right reverend , father ' s advice , * ' if h ^ he so pleased he may go and setk 9 ' taking tim further ad * monition with hi to , that it is better
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to trust to his own enquiries than to the lying reports of mercenary reviewers , and that when a person means to rebuke it is commonly advisable that he should first understand .
The learned prelate in discussing the testimony of Jeremiah Jones vvbich had been appealed to by Dr . Priestley , has fallen into thfe common error of confounding him with his relation
and tutor the respectable Samuel Jones of Tewkesbury , who kept an academy there , at which bishops Maddox and Butler , archbishop Seeker and Dr . Chandler received their education in
classics and theology . The reviewer , en passant i rectified this error of the bishop ' s : but though the er . ror is not denied , yet the correction of it cannot escape the reprehension of the pious prebendary . " What this has to do , " says he p , 60 & i " with the question at issue abotot the deference due to
the testimony of St . Barnabas , or of tbe ' autboc assuming that name , I' confess myself unable to imag iwe . " What then are the errors of ai bishop tod sacred to be touched ? But it seems that to notice
this errbr was a digression from the subject . And to shew , no djoubt , what it is to write connectedly , the reverend ; prebendary hooks in a long story of good Dr . B \ ichandn and the I ndia
missionaries , p , 596 » A common reader v ^ ould be puzzled to discover the connexion between this modern te ^ le and the orthodox qhurch of Mlia * But Mr . Prebendary Horsley is no common writer , nor dpes he write for common readers . ! . ¦; ' < ¦
The reverend prebendary introduces in p * 595 , a quotation from
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728 Mr . B els ham ' s Reply to the Rev . H . Horsley *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1813, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2434/page/36/
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