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    £ \\ e have already some materials for filling up this department of our Work regularly , and we trust to our Correspondents for the means of making it a permanent source of instruction and entertainment . Ed . ] Letter I . Jrorn Rev . JE 1 . Williams to Rev , Mr . Grove , Taunlon .-[ Communicated by Dr . Lindsay , from Dr . Calder ' s paper * . ] London , April 22 , 1731 . Rev . Sir ,

    THE long silence I have kept , may seem not very consistent with a lust sense of my obligations to you . Fhe only reason I have to offer is the unsettled state of my affairs , through Mr . JLambe ' absence , and my desire of writing somewhat certain . I shall always be sensible of the advantage I enjoyed in being educated under you , and of the particular favours I received from you . Alethinks I have lost a tutor , a friend , and a father , unless

    notwithstanding my removal , you will still give me leave to look upon you as such , b y permitting , me to apply to you ; and as I shall always remember you under those agreeable relations , so I hope I shall be always careful to improve the advantages I

    then enjoyed . I look upon myself as indebted to you , for the respect and civility T meet with from my friends There , and hope I shall answer what 19 justly expected from one who has

    enjoyed so great advantages . I have preached Uwice before Mr . Lambe , and my going to him is at length determined , though the time is not as yet fixed , but am to go with him for Gloucester in about five weeks .

    I dine with them every Thursday : they are extremely courteous and affable , and converse as freely as I could wish , without that ceremony and distance usual with persons of their high rani * , and hope I will be more free when better acquainted ; but some Of the ' ministers talk : of rhy not being there fot abbfe three years . There is Wo < hanftiony between them and Or . Wright : they have not consulted him all along , at which he has expressed the highest resentment , but he does all that he can to serve me in the affair . The house at Fairford is to be licensed , but the London ministers

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    talk of getting me excused for once a day . 1 have heard a most agreeable account of the situation of the house . Mr . Milner has gained a very great reputation by his Charge . Mr . Chandler and many others think k the best they ever met with , and the ingenious author is much inquired after . Mr . Hallett ' s answer is come to the

    booksellers hand , but I hear no account of it only that it is designed to be a direct answer , and that the bookseller is not determined whether

    he shall publish it before winter . Dr . Gravenor and Harris were wishing to see the necessity of a satisfaction stated , and were exceedingly pleased with the hopes of seeing it done by so good a hand . When I mentioned the

    reasons which I thought made it expedient , I found they were not for carrying it higher . Others 1 find give into the notion of the absolute necessity of it for want of seeing the other notion well stated , and therefore ask why was it set on foot if not

    necessary ? an objection which ( tome ) the right stating of it will entirely remove . Your preface on moral fitnesses was extremely acceptable to many ; but we have some gentlemen furious for demonstration , who still ery out for

    more proof . I mentioned to one Of these some of the plainest instances of a difference in actions , and wds told it was all by an arbitrary determination ; but for this determination 1 can find no sufficient reason given , unless an intrinsic real difference be

    supposed . 1 asked whether it Was fit I should pursue my own hap £ > itle $ s , or whether the desire of happiness was an arbitrary determination , antecedejit to which happiness or misery are supposed indifferent : and even this was asserted . What notion these

    gentlemen must have of reason I cannot see . I am however glad to see that virtue and vice , happiness and misery , stand upon the same foot ; and indeed I can no more doubt of a difference between the two

    former , than between the latter . My friend having extolled the' mathematics as certain , we proceeded to that : he told me , that three and two make five is not a postulatum % but that three and two are same idea a * five , and therefore equal : I should

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 75, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/11/