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I have preserved ,, as you will per * ceive , what tue ? & ?**** translator lost , the author ' s Angligenum Deus , a too common presumption , claiming the « Father of all the families of the earth" as peculiarly , if not exclusively , the God of Britain , which , according to the fond nationality of Watts , in his version of the 67 th , Psalm , \ s ^ or ^
at least , is to be , celebrated to ' * the creation ' s utmost bound , " as the Almighty ' s " chosen isle , " and " the favourite land . " Give me leave to remark , on the " Verses composed by a Lady , " ( XVI .
733 , ) that , though probably new to most of your readers , ( as they must be interesting to all , ) they are not very modern , for the ingenious authoress has been more than a century in her
grave . I find those lines in Gibber ' s ( Shield ' s ) " Lives of the Poets ' , " ( 1753 , III . 201 , ) and there attributed to " the Hon . Mrs . Monk / ' daughter of Mr . Locke ' s friend , the justly celebrated Lord Molesworth , who thus
describes her accomplishments , in a prefatory dedication to her " Poems and Translations , " published in 1716 , under the title of Marinda : " In a remote country retirement ,
without omitting the daily care due to a large family , she not only perfectly acquired the several languages here made ti&e of , ( Latin , Italian , Spanish and French , ) but the good morals and principles contained in those books ,
so as to put them in practice , as well during- her life and languishing sickness , as at the hour of her death ; in short , she died , not onl y like a Christian , but a Roman lady , and so became at once the object of the grief and comfort of her relations . I
loved her more , " adds Lord Molesworth , as a parent's highest commendation , " because she deserved it , than because she Was mine . " ( Gibber , III . 201 . )
t I should not have expected that J An Old Dissenter , " ( p . 158 , ) wcrold « ave considered it as correct , under an an onymous signature , and without justifying his cemmfe bv a smc \ le example .
t (> represent Dr . Toulmin , " an industrious collector of anecdotes , " from whose pen we have derived so much interesting contemporaneous biogra-P Y > as " toci ready to record as tacts ^ authenticated reports . " As to the re Port , in question , ! can safely affirm ,
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frtmi distinct recollection , titet there had fhett existed , for several yeara , & very common opinion , however entertained , that there were " tame Dissenters , " ready to barter their rights for the smiles of a tcourt . Among these " the Rev . Mr . Ma&rten , " who , I rqpaember , was said lo . h&ve had a friendly visit from Bishop Horsley ,, was conspicuous ; tliough , I understood that * ' the other receivers ami distributors of tbe regium donum
money" had been either supplanted ty Mr . Marten , or had declined to act with him , rather than that they had encouraged his courtly propensities . I trust , however , that ts An Old Dissenter , * ' unless he can be more explicit , will not persuade you * readers , or , on reflection satisfy himself , that Dr . Toulmin was eminently credulous , though his tvell-known candid temper might sometimes indulge to excess the charity that " thinketh no evih "
1 take this opportunity of offering you another letter , which also remained in MS . among Mr . Wakefield ' s papers m 1804 , because the writer was then living . Mr . George Bew was for some years Secretary of the
Manchester Society , and , if I am not mistaken , a Lecturer in the Manchester College , now removed to York . I find by a friend ' s obli g ing information , in 1820 , " that he died at Kendai some time ago , " and that € < there is no printed notice of him /* One of your correspondents can , probabl y ^
supply the deficiency . Mr . Wakefield , referring to Mr . Bew ' s Letter , ( Mem . I . 269 , ) says , that his Essay on the Origin of Alphabetical Characters was ** read to the Society at two successive meetings ^
published in the second volume of their Memoirs , " » nd " inserted in the New Annual Register for 1 7 ^ 5 , and the Encyclopedia BritannicaT Iu this Essay , which appeared in t ) oth editions of his Memoirs * Mr .
Wakefield maintains , contrary to the more common notion , that letters were an immediate divine communication . This opinion , Which } s weH known to have been Dr . Winder ' s , ( On Knowledge ,
1756 , II . 30—55 , ) I find maintained , ki I 726 , in an anonymbus " Essay Upon Literature ;—proving that the Two Tables written by the Finger of God in Mcrunt Sinai was the first Writing in the WoHd . ~ It is also .
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If on . Mrs . Mt » tk . *—jtn Old &hventer * ~ + JMhr . Beta . 218
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/23/
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