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that compelled him , both as a physician and a moralist , to endeavour to dissuade them from . At such interference tliey would sometimes be aixgry ; but when they were in their best humour with Mm , they
would say , you foolish dog , can ' t you see that the sooner vie kill ourselves ^ the better itjwiUbefor you andyour family ? ( They died without heirs , ) He did , notwithstanding * , persist in his kind endeavours 3 and I find among * bis MS , devotions , a very anxious and ardent prayer for them . " P . 108 .
Dr . Hartley ' s was the heresy of the closet : * « , -. , my father ' s profession ( physic )
was not that for which he was orig-mally intended . He directed his studies for a long time to divinity , and intended to have taken orders ; but upon closer considerationof the conditions attached to the clerical professionj he felt scruples , which made him reluctant to subscribe to the
Thirty-nine Articles , Yet he was by no means a Dissenter , as Dr . Priestley has had a mind to make the world believe . On the contrary , my father , though doubtful about some theological points , thought them of little consequence to real morality ; arid he conformed to the customs of the
Established Church , attending its worship constantly . " Pp . 109 , 110 . There is surely some inconsistency in the last observation . Mrs . Hartley herself has eloquently shewn the evil consequence of one of the tenets of the
Establishment to " real morality . " It is not our province or our wish to arraign the propriety of Dr . Hartley ' s religious profession , but we cannot help observing that his theological views ill-fitted him for a member of a political church . *
Letter XXXI I , the next in order , is from an unknown hand , to Pistorius , the German Commentator on Hartley , and contains a just and clear account of the Hartleian system . The XXXlIlrd Letter is from Dr .
Franklin to David Hartley , Esq ., + «* M « m ^ hwmmmmmmmmmmmmmm—mmmmJmmmm ^* mm * mmmmmmmmmammm ^ , * : See an extraordinary passage quoted from his " Observations , " Mon , Renos , III . 273 . f J ) a * i » Habtx-ey , the son of the Z > octor by his first wife , was born 1735 , aud
died December 23 , 1814 . He was ; appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at $ he Court of Versailles , to settle with JDj . Franklin preliminaries of peace after the American war , which be signed on behalf of the British Court , in 1783 . He ipa # devoted to philosophical pursuits , and , ' received
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and is in thai admirable write ** ** own way , l ^ jfcre is a ^ rcdfcHoiiin itrwhicli ^ thdugti ; tiot fuliStled , tim 6 IW ^ c ^ ri ^ w dered improbable $ it 1 st tllat >/^ iS ^^ ci States will naturally Have ih $ British North American Colonies at last .
The seven next Letters are a , correspoijdence between Mrs . M Hartley and Mr * Gilpin , and are all excellent . In Letter XXXVII , Mr . G . tells his friend that he was led to inquire concerning her father , by his acquaint * ance with " a worthy clergyman , Mr . Greeny of Hardingham , in Norfolk , " of whom he says ,
" His works consist of translations from the original Hebrew ( for he was esteemed among our best Hebrew scholars ) , of the Psalms , and other poetical parts of Scripture ; and I cannot but think he gave the
first hint to the Bishop of London , Dr . Blaney , [ Blayney ~\ and the present Primate of Ireland ( 1795 ) , who followed , with translations of different parts of the Bible , in the manner of Mr . Green . Mr . Green ' s
Psalms were published sixteen years before Bishop Lovvth published bis Isaiah , which was the first of these biblical works I hare mentioned . With regard to the particulars of his life which were sent me , I find he had contracted an early acquaintance with Dr . Hartley , and that the Doctor ' s
particular regard for him continued all his life at Bath , and other places where the Doctor resided ; but from their mutual employments they seldom met . I conceived , at first , it must have been some other Dr . Hartley ; but you hayo convinced me it could be only your father , " Pp ' . 152 ,
153 . Following these are Five Letters of Mr . Gilpin ' s - to an unknown correspondent , pleasing but not of peculiar merit , . . ¦ " ' : . ,, ¦ . * ; - l . ' .. . " ¦ The greatest curiosity in the bookis the story and letters of " Joseph
Ameen , the Armenian Prince , " who was in England in the year 1763 . This singular man came over to Europe from Calcutta , with a view to qualify himself by a military education for the deliverance of his country
from the despotism of the Turks . He underwent great vicissitudes and hardships . Accident threw him in the way of the Duke of Northumberland , by whose means he at length attained the knowledge which he desired . He
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12 S Review . ' —Warners Original Letters .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/48/
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