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that he would have considered the pocke ^ ojC bis ; : | ggi £ ] i ^ the time of his readers ; and thak instead o £ wj ^ g ^^ i t | j §^^^^ r ^^ calamo , ( asfheoft ^ se ^ s tor . jtoye .- ^ kme »} fe e wj ^ ul ^ %¥ ^ g §^ f ^ i § #£ weighed scrupulously his arguments , and given spme ^ r ^ good faith and his extensive learningmight be relied upon , but also the ^ seties ^^ of his « reasoning and the soundness of [ his ' i ^ SmeHt ^ ' EfiE ^ &j : at ^ Idseties ^ of h teasoning and the soundness oj ^ : j 0 jm ^)^^^ d at
u J , intervals , for niany years in similar investimtiotts ;? ana . ^ ^ dmniittirig to the press ^ Harmony ftun ^ p d up n jwie ^ wn ^^ prepared ) to see whatever might be advanced oni t ^ ^ bjpc ^ J § j | ii ^| T ]) g ^ iqritics ^ the writer of this article sought * with earnestness ' > v | Qr ^ p ^ j | ojt-tunjj | of examining Mr . Greswell ' s Dissertations . A work pf ; ; . B ^ h < L # agnj 3 ^|| s , at
p ublished by the Syndics of the University press , he thought rou ^ t Jeafet contain abundance to inform ; and if he should not be led by the ^ author Thatferially to change his own opinions as to the arrangemeht ajqd ch ^ nolo ^ 6 f thfe gospel history , he believed that he might gain . fr 6 m ' ^ h > --i (^ 6 ' nejr likht , atid at any rate feel more secure as to the correctness ^ of thSt '^ hicli he fi ^ llb ^ ef 3 . He has , however , experienced little but ^ dis ^ ppqi « tcn ^| in his exajpiqation of the reaspnings of ^ he Dissertato r . j \ In ureswell H ? s accumulated a great mass of materials ; but a large portion are irrelevant ; and as the the
tp the remainder , there is such diffuseness in the statement , and so much ir ^ atoU ^ niess of convenience of reader , ( wtiich might higLve be ^ n ^ t ^ mqted b y even ordinary attention to arrangement and reference , ) that it is p fien ^ jditpcult to discern the tra , in of reasoning , or see to what conclusidn it is leading / What is worse , there is a continual tendency manifested in his liissertations to press every connected consideration to support his S / iews ; and under the influence of this , he 6 ften strains coincidences ,
tnagtn ^ es arid niukiplies evidence , passes over difficulties , and comes to conclusions , by processes which have little more than the form of reasoning , and lt ] tfofch argiiefs ^^ frdititheni as if they were established truths . Were fe a # 6 rk on connected subjects , * of a vastly higher character for ^ ip e ^ 94 i : anfj ¦; § xj ^ pgfm ^ nt 9 from tlje stu ^ y of which Mr . Greswell mig ht have le ^ rp § 4 ( | various useful esspns , and among them that degree of brevity wfyich 4 oe » ittotipfceveet pi ^ S {) icuity . ,-,, ; .: i ,:,.. ; .-. ., .. , ¦ .- ; ,. .. r . : P ,, / v . ,..,, V : v i , > ¦ ., Mi t-V u \ -
Umi ^ ilfflS % lJWfi ^^ fl 9 n ^| V" says this respectable and ^ u chaous crihc , t i ;^> I ' \ i \ vMf . i ' . n . 'lSnff \* IiUi * l . tA li . i / . i ; .:, ' , ¦ ~ . : I - - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ¦ \ . ' ¦ .. '• , * ' ¦ ¦ . " ¦• ' — ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - J
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~ 15 T ~ Trtntt 5 r College ^ eambridge . Cambridge : printed at the University > ress » HS ^ SJdi . K ^^ ftMl ^ K ^ B& M ^ a -. •• r < , v -v ;^ -. _ ¦ iv , /!;; . " ; .:. ; . ¦ ., - . r ,,-, r <^ ' \ 'jI * jfihW »! Plf ( 8 fyiSifi ^ Wr STO 9 M ^ s Ufe , p . 336 , „ referring Jo Le Ckrc ^ , jpTi 8 B ^ r ^» t » pns
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1830, page 764, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2590/page/36/
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