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went thas qualified to Armenia , and joined Heractiua , an independent Prince , in Georgia .
u corresponded for spme lime after his return to Armenia , with the late Lord Lyttleton ; and in his last letter informed Iris Lordship , that he had at length refill *
tantlyreHnii'iiished the idea of exciting a military spirit among * his country naen that they were devoted to a mercantile life , and must continue to Hve and die- —slavesS P . 179 .
Dr . Johnson ' s pen has furnished Letters XLVIIL XL 1 X . and L . The first is addressed to Francis Fowke , Esq ., the second to Joseph Fowlte , Esq ., and the third to Richardson . It is enough to say that they are not unworthy of Johnson .
The next Five Letters are by Mr , Fowke , the friend of Johnson , and deserving from his talents of that high distinction . He says of his friend , whom he survived ,
"Ah ! where shall I find another Johnson , who , with all his failings , was a very superior being ? I am jsorry his biographers cannot be brought upon their trial for murder : it would be do difficult matter to convict fbeto , ** P . il 5 .
We find ourselves again in the pleasing company of Mrs Hartley , in Letters JLVI . and LVIL y the first a letter to her from the celebrated M * s . Montague , and the second a letter from her to a person unknown , on Mrs . Montague ' s death .
Letters LVIII . and LIX . are from Dr . Jeans , the late English Episcopal minister at Amsterdam . The latter contains a description , which is almost
sublime , of the awful calamity at heyden , in the ; year ISO ? , by the explosion of ten thousand pounds' weight of gunpowder , in a vessel lying iti the harbour .
We have in Letter LX . some not displeasing gospel gossip , by the late Rev ; John Newton . The 8 ix following atfe by the late Dr . Buchanan , the Indian ecclesiastic . One of them , LX 1 V . exhibits a very
lively picture of the scenery and manners of BengaJ . Webaye , pp . r ( a 3 ^ # Q , the verjy interesting Letter ^ f l » r , Jniwee John - atone * < the pityatet * n * io JVCna . Montague , describing &ani Lytt ietop ' t last dlneM ^ aiijd defttfa ; 4 ^ Ho > viiig wtiiefa is a letter from Voftttiirfc to Ler * Lyttte
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tan , with hie Lordsliip ' s reply . JEb ^ Vvitty philosopher writes , ^ Ak , to rel ^ ioia I Aii ^ * Mtf 1 b&pz ^ e noble author [ of D&togfti ^ s $ t | h ? fooail ] thinks with me that God is neither a Pr ^ -
byterian % nQf a Lutheran , riot qf ike fold church , nor if the high ciufich / ; bijt Q 6 $ L is tiae Father of all mankind , the Father of ike noWe author and ikkfse ^^ V . 2 & 1 Lord Lyttlefcm ' s reply is answerable to his reptrtatioa : thki
u t entirely ^ g ^ ree yd ^ Gdjd fe the Father of all mankind y and X shotild thiuk it blasphemy to confine his g-oodness to a particular sect ; nor do I believe that any of his creatures are good in his s % ht , if they < j ( o not extend their heueyolenee to all his creation .
Ci These opinions I rejoice to see in some of your works ; and should be rery ^ led to be convinced that tlfce iit > eTty of yovr thoughts and your pen , upoa subjects 4 > f philosophy and religion , never exceeded the bounds of that generous principle ,
which is authorized by revelation as much as by reason y and that you disapproved , in your hours of sober" reflection , those irregular sallies of fancy , which cannot be justified though they may be accounted for , by the vivacity and fire of a great genius . * ' P . 283 ,
The next is an anonymous Letter on the Houghton Pictureis 5 a Letter from Dr- Glass , of no merit whatever , follows ; add the volume concludes with one of great feeling and piety > happily expressed , by the late Rev . W . Jones , of Naylaiid , of Trinitatian memory , on the decease of his wife /
Our extracts and remarks will have shewn the reader that we consider the public under obligations to the fair Editor for this collection . We are glad to see that she announces another similar compilation , in two volumes , I 2 mo . under the title of Literary Trifles . E »
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Review . L « —lAfe of the Bishop of ^ daff \ 19
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Art . II . — Anecdotes af the Life of RichMrAWatfoVvBi ^ written by himself , # tf . fContitt « ed frotn page 56 /} Tf % BL WAT ^) N rate into notioe JLr as 1 * ^ 1 ? li ^ dl 0 giati by his- answer df he in
to i ^ ibbbiv which speaks » a very unaffected manner . : , " In tbe mmim of ¦ •* 7 & $ jX vm ^^ my Apology for Vtm ^ Tifto . < $ iSira # ; f 9 ~ duced to look into Mir . Gibbon * * History by a M ^ nd , mt «** Wt * rah * b ^ hrho tolt « i 0 < rti « t ihe mtt ^ ckUpod CtektiwOI
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/49/
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