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RETIBW. ^ Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to hlame." -- ?Pqpe
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Ar 1 c < . l . —t ) figinal Letters , with Biogrdphicai jtllustrations . Edited by Rejk ? eqcia Warner , of Beech Cottage ttear Bath . 8 vo . pp . 312- JLpngman dud Co . 1817 . fTHHtS is upon the whole a valuable JL collection of" Original Letters . ' Of there [ their ] * being all genuine , "
we agree with the Editor ( ri ? ef . iy . ) that " there is every naoral certainty . *' T ^ he "VBiographicm Illustrations" are ahdrt , apposite , well-written and unprduflicied . The first Letter is from Richard Heater to t > r . Richccrd Allestree ,
printed from the original , " found in a second-hand copy of lyndewodes Provinciale , purchased about 2 $ years ago , bf Mr . Cuthell , Bookseller , Middle Row , Hdlborn . " It is dated ^ December ? 0 f 1 & 7 Q , and contains a Vindication of this celebrated
Nonconformist ' s political conduct in the Civil War . He shews Allestree that he tiaifl never been a leveller or Crom-WelHan . l * he nesit is a trtfting Letter from Prior , the poet arid rertegade , to Lord Toivrisend .
Four Letters succeed from Lord Bolingbroke , ttyo to Sir William , and two to Sir Charles Wyndham . The writer thus sketches his own character in his pectfliar , style : u The . decla red friend of my friends :
the declared eusmy of my enemies ; ready to sacrifice niyself at any tioae . fpr the liberty and welfare of the country in vtfhich I Was born , and at all other times content and btfppy in the 6 tate df a philo-Bt ^ Medl cosmopolite , in the ordinary coarse of private lifoi" Pp . 1 ^ , 20 .
The only passage besides of any interest relates to the Pretender : : l ! houg ) x the project we li-ave ^ so qfton talked <) f for marrying Charles he , in that one point of view . fvhepein 1 have vcpn-$ idered it extremely desirable } there is no doubt bat it rqay cea ^ e to be so , wlien it is seen in another . You have jseen It in that other , tind yon are therefore a mu <* h
• ' V ¦> ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ _ ¦ .. ¦ ¦ y ^ - , ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ 1 _ V ^' - ' m-¦^ 'I « point of ^ vp-Qgraphy the lybrlc , Jiiinted py Crutweti ; Bath , is beneath tl ^ Wrel of Ae > ro ^ iildi ^ l pre ^ a . The tit ^ - page is worse execlrte ^^ tmn atty Trtiioh ^ Ke xevuGmtoGr t <* ht ^ ve seen .
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better judge . He M ? ill be very easy in the matter . Nothing could tempt him but the prospect of an immense fortune ; and , if I know him he will prefer , even t 6 that , the enjoyment 6 T his liberty , tet me say one word to you on this Subject . I have studied him this summer more than I erer
idid befor . e , Ypn will never give him a turn for public busipess , but he h&s notions of virtue and honour . strong * about him ; and he is one of those nag's whom you m&y guide with a thread , if yau pla ^ y with his mouth , but who will jjrow restive to the Spur , and runaway if he is much checked . " t * p / 2 p . « i ;
Them ore thirteen Letters ofjPope ' * to William Fortespiie , JEsq * , one of thern containing a letter of Quy \ $ to the same person , Qf which nothing more can be said than that theysareof
a piece with thte greater part of the poet ^ epistolary conipositions which were already before the public ; they make no addition to the well-known particulars of his life , much Jess will they increase his reputation .
The following ^ six Letters are from JDr * Cheyrte > $ hephysician , toRfchardsoti 9 the moralist , and turn upon diet and Pamela * They a * e succeeded by one , giving a meagre account of Cheyne ' s death . W . e come next to tv most valuable
cLettctr frx > m Mrs . MmyWartley { daughter of . the eetebraWd © r . Hartley ? 9 to the late Rev . W . Gilpin , of Bold re , which inclosed two letters of her father ' s , and which contains some particulars of his character , and observa tions on his scheme of the moral
discipline of Providence being ) benevol ^ nt ; 0 nd purifying . Qf the letters she sa >« , € < One of them was Hvritteu virhen he w ^ s at $ cho 61 , only sixteen years of agfe . J % vas pleased to sfee in it the piroof of that virtuous and ingenious iniikl , which I
kno \ v he possessed in his later years , and . whidh I have always heai ^ d was remarkahle in him fr « m the , earliest period . Yau w > H 8 € fe in that letter an observation , that whatever a youug * iaafi , at first a |> plie « hiinself to , is comnjoniy Jbis delight
afterwards . TW * certftiiijy is iiot a . new , <>* singular thought ; , biit when I consider the ^ o ^ ct of WIs fiith re foook , to iniiif « 6 * i his syatem 6 f vibrittidns nfld as ? dc ? a < ion ^ , that the ihinMrcc ^ reii ideas and itnpi ^ -
Retibw. ^ Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Hlame." -- ?Pqpe
RETIBW . ^ Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to hlame . " -- ? Pqpe
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 126, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/46/
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