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them , and \ bis pockets generally . . contained a budget of bis political effusions , consisting of mock lqyaj gongs and addresses , burlesque h ^ nins and prayers for fast and thanksgiving «| aySj &c &c , many of which found their way iuto political publications . . One of these ephemeral
productions was reprinted and circulated , ( as there is reason to believe , ) to the extent of 50 , 000 copies . Whatever be Undertook be pursued \ vith ardour , and upon principles of conscientious rectitude ; his j > en , was always ready in the cause that excited bis feelings . On the subject
of theology his compositions in his younger days were numerous and chiefly devotional . Ail elegy he published in the year 1775 , on the death of the Rev * Mr . Janes , pastor of Tucker-street , Bristol , is accidentally preserved , and some of his poetry in manuscript still among bis papers is not without merit . One of the Unitarian Society's tracts , entitled * ' A Letter &om
an Old Unitarian to a Youu # Calvimst , " may be mentioned a » a specimen of his mode . of r ^ aaotiiug , although it should be noticed that this Wall a private letter to a nepheSV , Written without a view to publication ^ and forgotten Until recognised with the above title . Another production , in the shape of a pamphlet , was a satire on WaMbdfeioi ^ d the doctrines of
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forbearance and courtesy which govern the rela - tlons of society in other matters are applied to religious controversy , no individual can have any rational pretext for taking umbrage at the mantier in trhidh m opinion is treated which he may happen to mo ~
fess ; and he was the last ^ iiialk ^ o ^^ t a reverence for that ^ wliicfi he could not respect . What he declared he acted upon . His liberality , was not mere profession ; and , upon this principle , be was never heard to pronounce this or that publication , on the subject of religion , an
improper one for young people ; works generally considered the most obnoxious to Christianity were as accessible to his children as the Bible ; and he considered the concealment of his own opinions and doubts from them criminal , and c ^ lculate ^ to lead them «/ 6 rd into habits of deception .
He thought that if in a pamphlet of an hour ' s reading , there is danger of counteracting or overturning all that Is attained by the study of a 8 ubje » ct to whidi a seventh portion of our time is professedly devoted , the time must be unprofyably
spent > and that candour could not withhold the antidote . He did' not regret that his Most ¦ fixed < opinions might be found indefensible , Balisfitki as Re Was thett the knowledge acquired in the search after truth is tiktorto valuable'ff lim the mm plausible self-delusion , As sentiments like in iouna nis
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1820, page 556, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2492/page/56/
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