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    t-h at book ; and thence concluded , that the person who preached "the one was the author of the other , . Dr . Prideaux was afterwards further confirmed in his opinion ; for as he attended the press In the theatre at Oxford , whilst another of the books ascribed to the same author was

    printing there , be often found whole lines , and sometimes two or three together , blotted out , and interlineations in their stead , which he knew to be of Bishop Fell's haod-writing , and this was a liberty which it was unlikely any but the author should have taken * So that his opinion upon the whole was ^ . that th . e

    book called The Whole Duty of Man , was written'by an author still unknown , but that all the other books assigned to the same -author were written by Bishop Fell and Dr . Allestry * And that whereas the first of them that was printed , either by design or mistake of the bookseller , camfc forth under the name of th £

    Author of the Whole Duty of Man , they suffered all the others to come out under the same disguise , the better to conceal what they intended should be a secret . And as to what Bishop Fell says in a preface to a fo ] io edition , printed ai Oxford , in whicfo all these books are comprised together , where he mentions the author as lately dead , it was generally understood to be meaqjt of Dr . Allestry , who was then lately deceased /* Hackney , Feb . ll , 1806 .

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    LORD NELSON ' S NAME AND HONOURS * To the JEdztor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , Among the striking coincidences which appear in the history # of extraordinary msri there is one which is not unworthy pf feeing noticed , respecting that heroic character whose naval virtue has been so justly celebrated , while

    Jt What wouM offend the eye in a good picture , The painter casts discreetly into shade . " Soon after the battle of the Nile , and the consequent exaltation of Nelson to the peerage , I heard it mentioned in

    conversation , though I am ignorant who made the discovery , that the letters in his name , Horatio Nelson , would exactly foym the sentence ^ Honor est a Nilo . As this circumstance has , I believe , never been in print s you ma 7 think it woxthy of being recorded in your miscellany , which £ hope will be eminently successful , to nnngle utile dulci 9 or in the pld-fashtop ^ d lau-r guage of Herbert , to turn delight into a sacrifice /^ I remain yours i Feb ; 8 , 1806 . T . O ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/19/