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      Sir , I haw been told that the God whom I worshipis all mercy ; Whether by mercy be meant goodness in general or goodness exercised towards the guilty * blessed be his

      name , he ts all mercy * But he is ntxVmercv onl y * He is underived , eternal , infinite , unchangeable , omnipotent , omniscient mercy . mpotent , omniscient mercy .

      I hope I may now be permitted lo retire . The , cause no longer stands in need of my exertions , I see ^ from your Miscellany , it has many powerful defenders . Mr .

      Plees , of the island of Jersey , has favoured me with the perusal of many beautiful essays on the subjec& I h «* p £ he will favour the world witli the perusal of them . The web of sophistry in which the doctrine of annihilation was in *

      volved I have unravelled ; single threads of it only remain : these my friends will easily cut into small particles , and , by collecting and placing them in the focus of the sim of revelation , destroy every atom from the universe of God . ; I am , Sir , Your constant reader , and admirer , J . P . ESTLItt .

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      Error in Biographia fV atringtonia * In the" account given of Dr . Estlin , among the Warrington students ( pp . 26 © , 267 ) are the foHG ^ rtgina € Cttracies :--The work ia which Dr . Priestley expresses his ^ affection for hiiu is not in his

      answer to Paine , but in his Remarks on Dupuis : ¦ —None of the sermons which are published separately are included in the volume of sermons : —and Dr . Aikin , * ho i « the person alluded to in the letter to Dr * Toulmin ( p * 26 , coL

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      l of the Mon . Repo& for January ) during the ? time that he cx > W * tinned at Wanitigton believed the doctrine of annihilation .

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      Character of the French . The French ( says Sir John Reresby , wha visited them ill 1654 , ) are generally soon , gained and soon lost ; good company ,

      but bad friends ; unable to keep a secret , and had rather lay their hands on their swords for you , than on their purse ; they have more of airy than solid * and

      attempt better than they perfarro * so that it may properly enough be said of them , as Tacitus said of the Britons in his time , lit de + poscendis periculis eadem audaciat

      in detractandis uii adtcenete tUk dent formidoi- ^ The same aud aci * - ty i n provoking danger , and i ire « - solution in facing it when prtsenr > is observable in both .

      This old traveller remarks , very ungall 4 ntly , —f-Tfae women are ra * ther subtle than chaste , interested than virtuous ; a great itch to b * well clad ; sometimes occasioning the neglect of one part to ador& the rest * ^ Travels . 8 vo . 1813 , p * 44 .

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      GtEAmJlaS ; OR , SEEttfiO ^ S AND REFtiCflONS MADE Itf A COURSE OF GENERAJL REAtJING . No . CLXXXIL

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      wAtaMri ^^^^ M 1 ' No . cl ± x : xiii . The French in 1695 . During the war between Wil-Jiain III . and Louis XIV . the

      anonymous author of an Essay on Ways and Means thus describes the rival nation : —

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/39/