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Messalla , at the command of the emperor AnastasiuSy the holy Gvspels , as written by Idiot Evangelists , are corrected and amended . " The translation is printed in italics , and the original Latin is given , as a note , at the foot of the page .
In the BiographiaBritannica , article Collins * Dr . Kippis tells us , that " the Discourse of Free-thinking was reprinted at the Hague , with some additions and corrections , in 1713 , in 12 mo ., though in the title-page it is said to be printed at London . In
this edition , the translations in several places are corrected from Dr . Bentley's Remarks , and some references are made to those Remains , and to Dr . Hare ' s Clergyman ' s Thanhs" 1 have no doubt
that Mr . Rutt ' s copy of Collins is the corrected Hague edition , to which Dr . Kippis refers . Both Collins e s " Discourse , " and Bentley ' s " Remarks , " passed through at least two editions in the year 1713 .
A competent judge , Dr » Thomas Edwards , speaking of this controversy , observes , perhaps with too much severity , " I look upon these Remarks on Free-thinking r , to be one of the most capital and masterly performances that have ever appeared in English - I y and am at a loss which to admire most , the
stupidity , ignorance and blunders of Collins , or the wit , erudition and accuracy of Bentley" * I cannot , Sir , avoid expressing my concern , that the literary correctness , and , above all , the moral integrity , of so distinguished a man as Dr . Bentley ,
should be impeached , without the most positive and satisfactory evidence . I am sure , my excellent friend Mr . Rutt , will deeply regret that his abhorrence of what is disingenuous and unfair in controversy , should have betrayed him into such an act of injustice towards the illustrious dead .
J . II . BRANSBY . November 7 , 18 18 . P . S . Since writing the above , I have found in Nichols ' s t 4 Literary Anecdotes , " Vol . II . pp . 673—678 , a
correspondence between Dr . Lort , of Cambridge , and Mr . Prichard , a Herefordshire gentleman , on the passage in question . Dr . Lort . had a copy of Collins ' s " Discourse , ' * of the same ? Edwards ' s " TwoDissertations , " 1766 , p . 24 , Note .
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edition with mine , in which " the passage is actually translated . " I apprehend this pamphlet to be of considerable rarity , and , as it involves Dr . Bentley ' s reputation , of no trifling importance . Mr . Prichard , " a great free -thinker , " characterizes Dr .
Bentley ' s " Remarks , " as the " most pedantically affected , awkwardly witty , overbearing and scurrilous" book that he ever read j and adds , that upon his mentioning " this Idiotis Evangelistis aflfair" to " a worthy dignitary of the
church , " he replied , tfcat " nothing was too impudent for Dr . Bentley . " " ' That Collins , " says Dr . Lort , " should profit from his adversary's Remarks , and alter such passages in his book as he was
convinced thereby were wrong , is so far from deserving censure , that it rather merits commendation ; but then an honest and impartial searcher after truth would candidly own his mistakes , or , at least , in the different
editions of his book , would fairly tell his readers in the title-page , that it was the second , third , or fourth edition , revised and corrected ; whereas the chicane , for 1 cannot call it otherwise , made use of by him , to conceal those circumstances , savours much more of
the Jesuit than of the generous and real Free-thinker . ' It is a very curious and amusing fact , that in the edition which I possess of Collins ' s " Discourse , " the philanthropic author thus concludes : " I think it virtue enough to endeavour to
do goody only within the bounds of doing yourself no harm . " In the Hague edition , after the words virtue enough , is inserted this most liberal , qualifying parenthesis : " In a country so ignorant f stupid , superstitious , and destitute of ail private mid public virtue as ours . See Biog . Brit . II . 2 S .
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684 Mr . Madge on the Death of Sir Samuel Romilly .
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Norwich , Sir , November 9 , 18 18 . N common , no doubt , with most of Iyour readers , my mind was greatly shocked and saddened by the mournful and bitter intelligence of the
melancholy termination of the life of Sir Samuel Romilly . Under the impression which it . made upon me , and from my love and admiration of his many and great virtues , I closed my sermon of last Sunday evening with the following brief but humble tribute of respect to his revered memory j w hich
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1818, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2482/page/20/
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