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    mfcy ^ be ^ exjie ^ fed : t&at I should be a little copious i » setting out . his character ; for £ ; knew him very particularly . He made a very ill appearance : he was very big ; Ms hair red , hanging oddly about him : . his tongue was too

    big for his mouth , which made him bedew all that he talked to : and his whole manner was rough and boisterous , and very unfit for a court . He was very learned , not only in Latin , in which he .. was a master , bat in Greek and Hebrew * He had read a

    great deal of divinity ^ and almost all the historians , ancient and modern : &o that he had great materials . He had with these an extraordinary memory , and a copious but Unpolished expression . He was a man , as the Duke of Buckingham called him to me , of a blundering understanding .

    He was haughty beyond expression ; abject to those he saw he must stoop to butimperious to all others . He had a violence of passion that carried him often to fits like madness , in which he had no temper . If he took a thing wrong , it was a vain thing to study to convince him : that would rather

    provoke him to swear , he would never be of another mind : he was to be let alone : and , perhaps , he would have forgot what he had said , and come about of his own accord . He was the coldest friend and the violentest enemy I ever knew : I felt it too much not to know it . He at first seemed

    to despise wealth ; but he delivered himself up afterwards to luxury and sensuality : and by that means he ran into a vast expense , and stuck at nothing that was necessary to support it . In fyis long imprisonment he had great impressions of religion on his

    mind ; but he wore these out so entirely , that scarce any trace of them was left . His great experience in affairs , his ready compliance with every thing that he 'thought would please the King , and his bold offering at the most desperate counsels , gained him such an interest in t ) xe King , that np

    attempt against hUaa , nor complaint of him , coul ^ ever shake it , till a decay of strength aftd uadcrrstanding forced him to let go . his hold . He was in bis principl es much against Popery and arbi trary govefiuijejat : a # d yet by a fata ^ trajn of pagaions and interf !?* k ? . VjW *' - WML W $ h foynv * M * ^ « &a almost , established ttoe latter .

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    And : whereas soia&e by a-smooth deportment made the first beginnings of tyranny less discernible and unacceptable , he , by the fury of his behaviour , heightened the severity of his

    ministry , which was liker the cruelty of an Inquisition than the legality of justice . With all this he was a Presbyterian , and retained his aversion to King Charles I ., and his party to his death . " *]

    Letter I . " Reverend and much-honoured Sir , * ' Last week I received yours of the 19 th July ; all tlie trouble I shall now give you , as to my outward condition , shall be only to tell you ,

    that you need not apprehend your application did me any hurt , for that person is so earnestly engaged against me , ( if I be not misinformed , ) that nothing can take him off , nor set him more eagerly on . It is a great

    comfort to me that you did consider me so much , and I am sure it can do no hurt . I pray God forgive him , and I hope ( by God ' s grace ) I shall never entertain the least revengeful thought against him , but labour patiently to submit to what the Lord shall do in

    relation to me , knowing that all shall work together for good . My portion is not here , it is above the reach of sequestration , and the meditations of it may easily sweeten what can befal me in the way .

    " Your notion concerning Papists , in relation to the Catholic Church , is certainly right , and the only way to deal with them ; for if w 6 limit the Catholic Church to Protestants only , how can we avoid that charge of uncharitable schism which , they are deeply

    guilty of ? I am glad you do proceed to unmask that generation more and more , and if I could serve you in providing but straw to such a building , I should think my time well employed .

    You tell me you are promised a translation of Moulin , * Oi tti 0 Nbvetty of Popery * A 3 f 6 r BloiuleiL * 'De Primatu / It is a folio book ( I have it iK my library beyond sea ; for my library is safe , and that is allh ^ th dcaped ) : to translate it all is too great a

    ? Life and Times , § vo . 18 Q 9 , h 139 , 140 . .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1823, page 259, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1784/page/3/