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    under the head of extra costs , as all stamps are allowed in taxing ; but those imposts are not the less objectionable upon other grounds . They are nevertheless favourites with weak rulers , and flatter some ridiculous popular prejudices . Since the

    publication of Mr . Bentham ' s work , no one has ever pretended to doubt their iniquity and gross impolicy . Mr . Rose one day , in Mr . Pitt ' s presence , took the author aside and informed him that they had read the pamphlet , that its reasoning was unanswerable , and that it was resolved there should

    be no more such taxes . Yet budget after budget has since been formed , in which those duties have made a part ; and Mr . Pitt himself was found to patronize them upon his return to office in 1804 .

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    Sir , Nov . 10 , 1817 . THE writer of the letter from which an extract is given in your last Number ( p . 601 ) is incorrect in stating that Mr . ( now Dr . ) Nares ' s " principal object in his book entitled

    Ei $ Qso $ , Ei $ mscrirrjf , is to argue against the Plurality of Worlds , from the fatal consequence that would arise of the absurdity of the supposition , that the Creator of the worlds should

    go about dying for every set of his rebellious creatures . " The real object of this work is , to shew that the philosophical notion of the Plurality of Worlds is not inconsistent with the

    language of the Holy Scriptures ; that there is nothing in the expressions used by the sacred writers that necessarily limits their application to the human race ; and that there are several passages which seem to imply that the whole universe of solar and planetary systems will be affected by Christ ' s sufferings .

    This mention of Dr . Nares induces me to make a few observations upon the following passage , taken from p . 116 , of his Remarks upon the Improved Version of the New Testament ( Second Edition ) :

    '" If the Logos imply only wisdom , as Mr . Lindsey pretends , what are "we to think of wisdom ' coming to its own , and its own receiving it not * ? What of John the Baptist not being tliat attribute of God * What of one attribute being the only-begotten or ***< irly-befoved as the editors would

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    have it > Can these passages be otherwise applied than to a person ? Or , what shall we say to TertuUian' ' s expression in his treatise against JPraxeas where he speaks of God being * alone

    before all things * ? Solus autem quia nihil aliud extrinsecus jprceter illum 9 cceterum ne tune quidem solus , habebat enim secum rationem , hanc Greed Aoyov dicunt ? Is not a man alone with his

    own reason , as an attribute ? Besides that in the beginning of Christ ' s ministry the wisdom of God should exist , seems a strange piece of information to stand at the head of such a work as John ' s Gospel ; after all , if ® £ G $ yjv o Xoyog be , as Mr . Lindsey would have it , and * God was wisdom , ' God avid wisdom must be the same . Now

    in ver . 14 , Mr . Lindsey must have read 4 wisdom was ( or was made , or became ) flesh j o Xoyog cr < xg % eyivsro ; consequently God became flesh , and our point is carried . " From this it is evident either that Dr . Nares never read Lindsey ' s Observations on the Introduction of St .

    John ' s Gospel , or that he has completely forgotten them . Suffice it to remark , that Mr . Lindsey does not suppose the words ev GgXV * to ** i ean in the beginning of Christ ' s ministry ; consequently , the Doctor might have spared his note , p . 114 : and if he wishes to know what we are to think

    of " wisdom coming to its own / &c . &c , he may consult any of the respect * able advocates for the interpretation here ascribed to Lindsey . Dr . Nares states that " he has a high respect for Mr . L . ' s character and consistency , but that he cannot bow down to him as a critic . " How

    is he enabled to estimate the merits of Mr . L . in this respect ? From the preceding extract , it would appear that he is unacquainted with Mr . L . ' s writings , since in most of them the Proem of St . John ' s Gospel is explained , and the Doctor ' s objection * fully obviated .

    I trust no apology is necessary 'for these remarks . Nares is generally considered a highly respectable writer . His statements receive- an implicit assent from many . His errors are , therefore , the more pernicious . My aim in writing this is to guard the inquirer after truth against relying too much on his assertions * I con-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 725, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/29/