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REVIEW. " Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame. 3 * —Pope* ^^^^
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Art . I . — Three Additional Letters addressed to the Ven . and Rev . Franch Wrangham , M . A ., Archdeacon of Cleveland , In Reply to his Animadversions on , Three former Letters s
in the Appendix to a Charge , delivered to the Clergy of his Archdeaconry , in August , 1823 . By C . Wellbeloved . York , printed . Sold in London by Longman and Co ., and by R , Hunter . 1824 . 8 vo . pp *
158 . rjpjflS title-page sufficiently ex-JL plains the occasion of Mr . Wellbeloved ' s second appearance on the stage of controversy . It could hardly be supposed , that the Archdeacon of
Cleveland would permit the " Three Letters" to pass altogether in silence : and it depended upon the nature , the style , and the temper of his reply , whether he would be again noticed by the writer of those Letters . Had the
dignitary ' s able opponent declined to > engage in any further combat with him , such a resolution would have been justified by all the laws of honourable warfare . To the increased gratitude and respect of the friends of religious truth , our author is ,
nevertheless , entitled , for determining to renew the contest : in animadverting once more on Archdeacon Wrangham , he has poured fresh light on many important subjects , and given additional strength to his former reasonings and conclusions .
His antagonist accuses , but has not convicted , him of several improprieties in the management of the controversy , and seems , in particular , to complain , that tlie charges which , we must be allowed to say , himself has rashly and unadvisedly accumulated against Unitarian Christians , and their
cause , are branded as * ' calumnious . " Groundless charges Mr . Wellbeloved lias proved them to be : and to such that gentleman has been •' accustomed to apply , perhaps not in its most common acceptation , but yet not without the authority of Dr . Johnson , * the term calumny "—P . 7-
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Certainly , this is not the most common acceptation of the word . A calumny is a known and wilful falsehood , devised and uttered , for the sake of injury . That is not calumnious , which is not false : * that is
calumnious , which , being known to be false , or which , ( and it is frequently the same thing , ) not being personally ascertained to be true , is said or written , in the way of accusation or reproach . The author of the " Three Letters " therefore , has been perfectly
-- " m . ¦ m correct in charging the Archdeacon of Cleveland , the Archbishop of Dublin , and some other dignitaries , with the guilt of calumniating Unitarian Christians ; and he has made the charge without asperity or aggravation . Where , in a moral view , is the difference between the man whose malicious
invention arraigns his neighbours of faults and crimes , and the man who , actuated by the same deadly hatred , the same blind asid implacable hostility , adopts and circulates the fabrication , against evidence , and ivithout inquiry ?
Archdeacon Wrangham scorns to be suspected of being governed , in his polemical labours , by any motives of self-interest or preferment . His opponent , it appears , had spoken , in the beginning of the first of the " Three Letters , ' of the efforts of those who misrepresent Unitarians as * '
inglorious , but not unprofitable . " This Mr . Wellbeloved said generally , and with no individual or personal application . H ® barely stated a fact , and a fact which he was fully warranted to state . The offence which the dignitary has taken at this language , on the part of his antagonist , is entirely unreasonable . Let us admit that he looks for no
preferment , as the recompense of these services , in behalf of the Established Church : we are sure that ,
tionaryy in v . < Calumny ? and the example cited from Sir fV . Temple " * " — calumniating and vilifyingusually include the notion of falsehood ** J . H . Tooke , in-Westminster Hall , April 3 Q , 1792 . And sec Dr . Maltby ' s Sermons , Vol . If , p . 570 .
Review. " Still Pleased To Praise, Yet Not Afraid To Blame. 3 * —Pope* ^^^^
REVIEW . " Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . * —Pope * ^^^^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/33/
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