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    that the writer of Dryden ' s life , t pious clergyman such as Mr . Jirqughton wasy should have selected without any censure , or lather have quoted carekssty , as the first that offered , ten lines the most exceptionable , in point pt moral decorum , through the whole poem . They are , indeed , nothing less than a profane apology for , or lather a panegyric upon the adul-Jerous life of Charles the Second . Addison , in the Spectator , ( No . 545 ) referring to Dry den ' s * Fall

    ef man , a drama formed on ' '• Paradise Lost , " has pointed out the very different attention of the two authors to avoid " all thoughts offensive to religion and good rnannef-s , " a just censure of Dryden , repeated by Mr- Walter Scott , in his late edition of that

    poet , though he has not referred to Addison . I know not whether it has ever been conjectured that the introductory lines of Absalom und Ahitophel might be intended for a sort of travesty of the

    Apostrophe to " Wedded Love " ( P . L . *• 750 . ) Such a purpose would fcave been uncensured , if not applauded by the wits of Charles ' s « ourt , while the " hallowed Mil . * ° n , " and * . unhappy Dryden "

    Would have appeared in character ; one employing his mighty genius to elevate , and the other feigning the vices he wanted , to prepare bis muse for d-egrading still lower , the low moral taste of their con *

    temporaries . —But I am wandering » r from the life of Coward . In 1883 , he became Master of ^ rte > and now , at the age of twenty-seven , first determined on the profession of Medicine .

    Purlu his studies in that line he ^ the degree of JJatchelor of ***** € ? i * I 6 * 5 t ; aod af Dostox ,

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    in 168 r . He first " practised physic at Northampton , and afterwards in 1694 , in Lombard Street , London . * In 1695 , appeared hi * first publication , which , according to Blackburne , obtained < c an honourable approbation from the President and Censors of the College of Physicians / ' It was a Tract entitled De Fermento vola *

    tilt nutritio conjectura rationis , qua ostenditur spiritum volatilem oleosuniy a sanguine suffusum ^ essc terum ac gtnuinum concoctioni $ ac nutritionis instru ? nentum * Such are the few particulars I

    have been able to collect , and pro *» bably all that can now be recovered respecting the circumstances of Dr , Coward ' s life , previous to his becoming known as a metaphysical and theological writer . Before I introduce him under that

    character I hope it will not be deemed an unwarrantable digression to quote a few passages from his •* Second Thoughts , ** in . which he has strongly marked , and , I think , designed to record , his

    opinions on some important questions respecting government and political oeconomy . Lord Orford , ( R . and N * Authors , ii . 69 *) speaking of the execution of Charles ( which

    according to your vol . ii . ( p . 42 . ) his descendant the late Duke of Richmond justified ) has these remarks . " The putting to death that sovereign could by no me $ u& § be the guilty part of their opposition . If a king deserves to be

    opposed by force of arms , he deserves death ; if he reduces his subjects to that extremity , the blood wilt in that quarrel lies on him . The executing him afterwards is a mere formality / ' Thbse ytthv agree with this nobte ^ w £ fcp £ M& \

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    Wrtitrt On Materialism *—Dr . Coward . —Letter II . 21 $

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/23/