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100 Original Letters 0 / Dr . Lardn er * s .
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I perceive I have hastened you too much , which I did not intend . You have given a fuller and more accurate version of Sozomen than I have done . But , as you do not differ from me , but confirm , in the main , the sense which I have given , I do not think it needful to make , at present , any alterations . I am , «\ Your sincere friend , and obliged , humble servant , Nath . Lardner . Hoxton Square , Jan . 12 , 1753 . To Dr . J . Ward , at Gresham College , in Buhopsgate Street .
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No . 9 . Sir , Dr . Benson has twice spoke to me about a paper of yours . But it was only on a Lord ' s-day , in the afternoon , in the Vestry , * a short time before worship , when it was not convenient to have any discourse . Last Lord ' sday , he put a question to me about it , which I did not understand . I therefore take the liberty to trouble you with this letter . Without my saying it , you can be assured , that I do not desire to obstruct the publishing of any thing which you think fit to propose to the public . But if you have any thing to say to me , I would entreat you to be so good as to let me know your mind by a letter . For , perhaps , that may be of use to prevent mis takes . \ I thank you for the Grammar . ^ I made a present of it to Danny Lister , of Ware , § believing that disposal would not be disagreeable to you . Your obliged and humble servant , Nath . Lajidner . How ton Square , Nov . 5 , 1754 . For Dr . Ward , at Gresham College , in Bishopsgate Street .
? Of the Meeting-House , Crouched Friars , ( long since , I believe , pulled down , ) in which Dr . Lardner had been assistant preacher from 1729 to 1751 , first with Dr . William Harris , and afterwards with Dr . Benson . See Dr . Kippis ' s Life of Lardner , pp . xiii . xlii . In " Memoirs of Dr . Benson , " prefixed to his " History of the Life of Christ , " Dr . Amory says , " The intimacy and friendship between these learned and worthy persons continued to the death of Dr . Benson [ 1762 ] ; and the critical observations of Dr . Lardner contributed to render his works more perfect . The freedom and politeness also with which they debated several points wherein they differed , were the papers published , would prove a good specimen of the proper spirit and manner for conducting theological debates . *' Dr . Towers adds , " From our owu inspection of some of the correspondence between Dr . Benson and Dr . Lardner , we are enabled to declare our full conviction of the justice of Dr . Amory ' s observation . These learn ' ed men were both firm believers of revelation , and equally disclaimed all implicit reliance on human authority . When they differed in opinion , they contended not for victory but for truth ; which they were alike ready to receive or communicate . " Biog . Brit . ( 4 780 ) , II . 203 . It is uncertain whether this correspondence remained in the possession of Dr . Towers . The letters of Dr . Lardner to his intimate friend Dr . Fleming , it is highly probable , were among Dr . Towers ' s papers , at the time of his decease in 1799 . Several years since I took occasion to express a wish for their publication . See Man . Repos . III . 487 , note . f This paragraph probably refers to Dr . Ward ' s objections to some of Dr . Lardtier ' s opinions , especially on demoniacs . These objections appeared in 1761 , in Dr . Ward's posthumous Dissertations . See Dr . Lardner ' s " Remarks , " Works , XI . 269—358 . 1 " In 1754 , Dr . Ward gave an accurate edition of the < Westminster Greek Grammar / compiled l ) y Cam den , while Master of that School . " § Mr . Daniel Lister , a gentleman with whom I had the pleasure of some acquaintance . He resided many years in Hackney , where he died in 1828 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 100, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/28/
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