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^ m ^^ e lpine ^ -tiaurian $ epiiW ics . I think there wojalcj be ; a pleot ^ ul harvest , but the disposition in % e ? eI countries , to reform is much more Mtetfl than they are aware of . My ^ jesiasti ^ al acquaintance on that side ,
those who are believers , are in general tynitarians , which is a kind of proselytism the society would not perhaps wish to promote . I have conversed , also , with M . Gregoire , the late bishop of Blois , on the subject * He will
support \ t so far as the general interests of Christianity are concerned : but though be has quitted his ecclesiastical functions , having been just named a senator , I do not hope that he will enter imo all die projects of religious reform , though he will go pretty far .
" You know that we are on the eve of great reli g ious changes in this country ; what they will be I know not yet , for the apposition is great and various , t am about to publish a translation
6 \\ t * tie CaiTUptions of Christianity * and Priestley ' s Answer to Volney , or rather pupuh , of which I have acquainted tppse gentlemen . I should like , also , tb ^ publish . the Comparison , } which the E&baf had th , e attention to send me ; Cut I must wait for assistance . 1 am
Qftnvjnce < £ these Works would be very seasonable at this moment : there are niapy yet who have not bowed the fcneetp Baal , and many also who want only a little assistance to put themselves in an erect posture . , " As our house is the general
rendezvous of strangers , I have pretty good opportunities of knowing the progress of reli gious opinion on the Continent . I am assured that Unitarianism is making T ery rapid progress in Germany ; and tfiat there is . scarcely a church , of which the pastor , if he be at all intelligent , is Aota convert to this faith . With the
« tete of the church of Geneva yoa are » o doubt acquainted . ^ I do not enter on any political W V , except to offer you my congratulations on the restoration of peace between the two countries . I say nothing ^ pecting myself except to observe , thitt
* hateyer my former friends in Englatid s * or I do not presume I have any now ( e ft >) think of my conduct , there are Jft y . few points , and those points of F udence , in which I do not feel the ffl ?* perfect self approbation . —I have | S ?» ffid . not gainst England , but for
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J ^ n ^ . wout it have been' lost In the [ heartJ of Europe ^ Happily for England ,. for France , arm the world , our efforts have not beeo m vain , r .: I beg my best respects to your
respectful colleague , E > r . Disney , and to Mr . Hollis : I should also request yoij to present them to- : but I am told I have entirely forfeited that § en ,-tleman ' s friendship : I have received that information , indeed , from a
suspicious quarter r- ? whose conauct in London has led me to break ; off all communication with him for sqm < £ years past . —1 shall be glad to-, bs mistaken . To -those who may still remember me I beg to be equally * Qr meuxbered , and remain , I " Dear Sir , " Your affectionate & faithful Servaflt ^ t ( Rue Varennes , 667- "
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Putlins Row , Islington * Sir , Oct . 11 , 1 . 816 , OUR readers will , |> robably ,, Jf ? Ypleased with the following particulars of Sir John podderidge , anc £ s > - tor of the pious'and amiable Dr . Philip Dodderidge , and noticed by JobOrtpii at the commencement of his excellenj : Life of Dodderidge , in terms ot hwjt commendation . According to Orton ^
he died at Forsters , near Egham , Surrey , though he was buried at Exeter * in thq cathedral , w ^ here asup ^ rl } monument is erected to his memory . Such a truly estimable character is a , t once ajn ornament tohuman ' nature and a « bless- » ing to his country . " Sir John Dodderidee , Kois : ht , waf
born in this county ( Devon ) bred irj Exeter College , Oxford , where he be * came so general a scholar that it is hard to say whether he was Jbejtter artist , divine , civil or common lawyer , though he fixed On the last fpr his public pjOr fessionand became second justice of
, the king's bench . His soul consisted of two essentials , ability and integrity ^ holding the scale of justice with s ^ steady an hand , that npither love tibr lucre , fear nor flattery , could bow liinj on either side . It was vehementl y _ . ) T W ft
suspected in his time , that some g # v large sums of money to purchase places of judicature ; and Sir John is famouf for the expression that as old and ififirni as ^ he was , he would go to Tyti ^ qrji to see such a man hanged that ( sqou ^ ij pr ^ flW t mpijey for ^ Jf t ^ R ^ *} AM ' -Pflf
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ith Sir rJoknvDoiMe ridge , . . JM&
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1816, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2458/page/15/
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