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credit of my understanding * con . Bisterieyyand independence of character / 9 to distress his mind , or to impair his health . ¦ Jnm , Sir , ; Your obedient ^ Servant , : 7 W . STURCH .
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Strictures on a recent Publication df Mr . Palmer ' s . No . II . [ The Editor of a periodical publication and his correspondents are sometimes presented with more
impressive instances of mortality than occur to persons in other situations . It will occasionally happen that the very Number which contains communications from a
much esteemed friend , or in relation to him , announces the intelligence of his death , and that before the observations to which his works have given rise can be completed for the eyes of the world , his own " thoughts are broken off—the purposes of bis
heart /'—and he is removed beyond the din of controversy and the din of war I How forcibl y these remarks apply to the time and circumstances of the appearance of the above Strictures 9 8 pc . our readers need not to be informed .
«* Were the contents of this pa ^ per personal , instead of being ar . gumentative , the Letter now printed > would assuredly have been withholden . " For making this declaration , we have the authority 4
of the writer * * He h ^ d a great regard for Mr . Palmer : he mourns sincerely over his grave ; and , were this the proper place , he could speak with ease and pleasure , of his various excellencies . Truth and
accuracy , however , arc the sole objects of these Strictures : and the author of them feels perpuA-
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ded that , if lie wer # tiWintentkmally to tio-iiBJiisticfe toM ^; Falnier , there will-hot be waiting . jtefson * qualified £ l \ d disposed to detec t those errors . which fte httnsfclf will be anxious Wstee corrected , "
6 * As the disclosure off his name could add nothing to his reasoning , and ar $ he is not involved in any responsibility for the facts which are the basis of the discus .
sion , he perceives 1 no necessity for his coming befdire the readers of the Repository under a different signature from what he usually assumes , and thus countenancing a departure frbm the accustomed course of correspondents in monthly publications . " Ely . ]
u Socinianism—Ananism : terms of reproach which too many are ever ready to apply to such as venture to think for themselves . ' Palmer , * Nov . 24 , 1813 . Sib ,
If my reasoning in a former letter ( pp . 715—723 ) was correct . I have shewn that the arguments of the . respectable author of ^ e Nonconformist ' s Memorial , do not
invalidate Dr . Lardner ' s testimony to ( he JJnitarianism of Watts . My present design is to unfold the presumptive evidence supplied by Mr .. Palmer himself in favour of
that testimony . I have before me his three publications on the subject of his admired writer ' s orthodoxy : I , have read the Notes to Johnson's Life of Watts , the
Appendix to that pamphlet and the recent Series of Letters . From these works I shall now collect passages and facts , which , if I mistake not ^ tender , it in th * hjghest degree probable that Laid j , . ' ,,. ' i , —— - Appendix to Johnton ' * life •* Watt * , with Wotca . Cunckuicit *
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768 Strictures on a recent Pu&Hcbtion of $ t * . Bafmer ' ** JV * c > . II
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1813, page 768, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2435/page/16/
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