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      A short Memoir of the Life of Edmund Law , D . JD . Bishop of Carlisle . By William Paley , lX j& . ¦ ( Extracted from ffutchinson ' s « ¦ * History of (^ fnberland ;\ VoLJLpp . 636—6 SS . See also ike Encyclopaedia Britannica . J Re-printed with Notes . By Anonymus . * 1800 . *

      EDM UND LAW , D , D . was born in the parish of Carthiei , in Lancashire , in the . year 170 Sf v *^ His father , who was a clergyman , ^ eld a small chapel in tliat fieighbourhood ; but the fanaily ; had been situated at Askham , in the bounty of Westmoreland . He was educated for some time

      at Gartiriel sciiool , afterwards at the free grammar-school at Keiid&l- y from which . he went , yery well liistructed in the learning of j ^ t ^ n ^ ar-sfihp ol ^ to St . J p hriV College * in Cambridge . Soon after taking his Brit degree , he was si ^ ed fellow <> f Chrises ^ ^ College ifl that Ujiiversity . f jjuring his residence in which college * he became

      known : to the public by a translation of Archbishop King ' s <* E * say upon the Origin of EWU" with copiou s * notes ; % ih r Wfc ^ ch many metaphysical subjects , curious aiicl interesting ifi their own natiife , are treated with great ingenuity , learning and novelty . §

      * Dr . Disney , for private circulation among his friends , one of whom has coinrauaicated this article , with a few additions to the notes . - "Kb / . t He tooit tUe "degree of B . A . 1723 , M . A ,. 1727 .

      £ fOf this translation there was a fifth edition , 178 t ] § There is a view of the 5 cpntrbversy , itt cd niteqnenise of ftr . Claims " Deinioii ~ « tratioh of the Being and Attributes of God ; " Sti . in the Gen . Diet . Art . Clarke , IV . 3 ^ 7 ^ l 3 ^ 9 ^ note ( I ) . Mr . Law *« trans-IatioS of Archbishop Kiag * * Essay on the Orf ^ iit of ftyit , with n ^ tes , waa not over-»^ d i ti thU metaphysical warfare ; and h i * ;* Po * t » c / i |> t ^ Whk . edoni edjitioti , ^ as a replication to "A Second Defence vol ., xiii . 2 ^

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      To this work was prefixed , under the name of ** A Preliminary Dissertation , * a very valuable piece , written by the Rev . Mr . Gay , of Sidney Col * lege . Our bishop always spoke of this gentleman in terms of the greatest respect- In the Bible , and in the

      writings of Mr . Locke , no man , he was used to say , was so well Versed . * He also , whilst at Christ College ? , undertook and went through a very laborious piart , in preparing for the press , ah edition of StepheiisV Thesaurus . f His acquaintance , during

      of Dr / Cl&rke . " Further cotitrpversy entsued , which produced our author ' s "Inquiry into the Ideas of Space , Time , ** &c » * Rev . John Gay , B . A . lTSl ^ H . ' A . l ?^ wats Fellow of Sidney College . It is to be regretted that no forther inforniation bas been obtained respecting tois gentleman .

      [ Dr . Priestley , ( Hartley , Intrdd ; Ess ; II ^ says he was ctr a clergyman in the West of Eng-laiidJ' He " was living in 1730 , hut died liefore 1748 , " when Hartley referred to his opinions . See Hartley on Man , ad init . and Priestley ' s Wovks , III . 184 , NoteJ

      f (< Robert ? Stephani Thesairrus Lingua ? Latinae . Editio nova prioribus multo auc- * tior et em ^ fiidatibr . '' * Four yols . in folio , printed 1734 . The Dedication to the Kingis dated u Cantabrigfae pridie Id Aprilis , ^ h ^ ^ m ^ &a .. m ^ M iW * ^« i FP ^ k « k « . ^ J *—* v _ »* . -- ^ mka- « m « V W " W **« t ^ B ^ . ^ >» k JP ^^^ K » ** and subscribed by himself

      ^ ^ . . . ^ ^ . ^^ MDCqxxxy . and Colleagues ^ Edmund us t , aw , Joannes Tay lor , Th omas Joh nso n , Sandys Hutch - inson . Concerning this edition of Stepbens ' s Thesaurus , see Nichols's Anecdotes of BoWyer ^ p . 64 , note * and Bowyer ' s Miscellaneous Tracts , ( there referred to , )

      for some pieces in a controversy respectingthe proposals for , and execatton of , this w ' orkl [ A new an , d improved edition of the Thesaurus is now proceeding from Mr . ya ^; e ^ i ; . " " ¦ ;; , ¦¦ r- r \ * : Of t ) r . Taylor some acebtint maty be seen

      in the Anecdote * of Bqwyer : he graduated B A . " 17 ^ 4 ; H ; : AV 1728 , XL , p ; 17 * 1-Mr . Johnson took Ins decree of B . A . 17 £ f ^ artd Wt ; -A .. 17 ^ 8 ; was Fellow oif Magdalen Colleire , and printed a uermon bn ^ be ffi 0 & 5 te 6 * A ^ m ^ of n ^ i ^ brealc * e ^ befS * % e IJii i rcWty of Cati ^

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      No . CXUX . ] ' , W \ ¦ , HAY , 1818 . [ Vol , XIIJ .

      Biography.

      BiOGRAPHY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1818, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2476/page/1/