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    be pon ^ ideqred ^ f An essential branch of HBeral education- . t 0 p $ of the noblest distinctions 4 of that k xeigfK , \ vg& the enlargement of reii ^^^ S ^ wie ^ e ^ Itisiafact richly meriting our atteution that although since tfie days of James the Fjr $ t no ersion revision cri has

    v or of the Sptures been made x by public , authority , yet there is scarcely a , single book of the Old and of the New Testament which has not been translated , within the last sixty years , an 4 chiefly by dignitaries and other clergyrnen of the Established Church ;* and that one of the most

    correct and popular of these translations was dedicated , by permission , to his late Majesty f—while nearly all were aided by his patronage of the labours of Dr . Kennicott for the restoration of the purity of the Hebrew text . These circumstances ought not to be

    forgotten : and . the just conclusion from them cannot be mistaken . The venerable monarch was attached by education , by habit , by situation ,

    ( and , candour will presume * by reflection , ) to the doctrines and discipline of the Church as by law established . We know , however , that he was not blind to certain blemishes in the ritual

    of his own communion . His dislike to the creed , falsely passing under the name of Athanasius , he appears to have signified in a manner remarkably impressive . J

    Of personal religion he was , by his example and his influence , a steady friend : and he gave his high sanction to many devotional and practical treatises . Sermons of this character he

    was fond of reading and hearing : amidst his domestic sorrows he was considerably soothed by them ; and they were recommended b y him to the younger , numbers of ips family . I allude ^ , in particular , to two volumes of Discourses , his i nt erest on whiph did equal honpjar , tp hfc ; gpo < i , sen £ e and piety . § jfl ^ s encouragement , pf relir

    , ,.,., - n . ^ V ,.-..., , , ..- T f i T * V - ill ' * Newcom& ' s Hist . View of ' ijiw . 'ti&t . Trails . pff / 'iMi AS : ^ GWm spettt o ? ftniLtotii'te ^ &fafton . don " . >¦* ; # >< * r t' <» ' - ' ~ '' 1 ? fi' ' * ' •'• ' ¦?

    t LoWth ^ I ^ ltth ^ <^ -- n .: v .-v . < \ ;?*< : t Anecdotes ^^ e ^ l ^^' - ' OHb ^^ Wnt ^ n ,, ( t ? jad 4 ed . ) ' 1 ^ 394 , 395 ^ " . . at » - tr §* ifite ^ a ^ rm onaj that fahm&stow itewy * are tho ^ e pf ; the-bite Rev . George ? Cany ^ A ? v > - g i' ^ ni , : . ; w wj \ ' . ' jx : *> •? a . "

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    gioni Wd if ^ i ^ i byiiMjp ^ p ^ g ^^ tl ^ stituti ^ c ^ l ^ ujai ^ d to promote t&roa , is uniV ^ rscmy admitta 4 . : f > **» \ s . > - * n' vt- . For both Catholic and M ^ Mmtmm Dissenters more was done under ' h « 3 reign than at any former time . Smm

    measures for their relief I ghallmen tion , in the orders of the dates , —In 1767 a celebrated decision of the House of Lords was given in favouj- © £ n n&m conformist , whom the corporation ^ f London had fined for refusing to take on himself the office of sheriff : in

    1 / 79 an act was passed , not a little beneficial to dissenting ministers and school-masters : in 1782 toleration was largely extended to the Catholics of Ireland : in 1791 the civil situation of the protesting Catholics of England the protesting Catholics of England

    was amended . The year 1811 witnessed the Legislature ' s rejection of an attempt to restrict the Act of Toleration ; as the following year did the enlargement of that act . On July 2 \ , 1813 , an act for the repeal of certain

    heavy penalties attaching to persons that deny the doctrine of the Trinity received the Royal assent . Nor have there been wanting indications of a disposition to remove from our statute book every remnant of the bigotry and intolerance of darker ages . *

    Even a fouler blot than these was actually wiped away during the late Sovereign ' s reign . The annals of the public life of George the Third , would descend with honour to posterity although they recorded ' no other event

    than the legislative t abolition of tiie British trade in slaves . Scarcely asty penal laws which yet subsist in matters of religion , are carrieditito etfecuiiojv ;} : while this traffic in the persons of men >

    was a series of acts of practical injustice and cruelty of the deepeat die . Of the religious and charitable institutions , either founded or zealously supported while the third Georae filled the throne , I pretend not to reckon the

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    ; Essay , an the Reign of George III . 649

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1820, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2494/page/21/