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      abundantly prove . I have giveii , it is true , some extracts from Tillotson , hut they are acknowledged to be his , and in one or two places I have also adopted a similar train of thinking " , as was to be looked for in the discussion

      of a subject too definite to allow of much latitude of illustration ; but that the similarity is such as to amount to a plagiarism , I luost positively deny , and for the truth of my assertion I refer to the sermons . If the Reviewer

      has read them he must know that he has done me injustice , but whether he has or not , he has paid me a compliment in attributing my production to the pen of so pious and elegant a writer as that bright ornament of the Church , of England . As I am anxious that a

      contradiction of the assertion should appear in your March number * I make this communication upon the report of my friend , without losing a post by endeavouring to procure a sight of the Repository for myself . J . A . JAMES .

      [ The passage complained of by Mr . James is in pp . 60 , 61 , of the present volume ; the writer of it has sent us the following remarks upon Mr . James ' s letter , in fulfilment of the pledge given p . 128 .

      " I have examined the charges of the author of ' The Plagiary Warned / with Mr . James ' s ' Scoffer Admonished , ' and Tillotson ' s Sermons lying before me , and the result is , that I find the author of the pamphlet generally correct in his facts , though somewhat too severe in his strictures .

      Consciously or unconsciously , Mr . James evidently farmed the plan of his sermon upon the Archbishop ' s second sermon , entitled * The Folly of Scoffing at Religionf and it can scarcely have been unconsciously , since he re-

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      New Version of Isaiah s celebrated Prophecy respecting Jesus Christ , ch . lii . J 3—15 , liii . 1 — 12 . [ Mr . Probert has obligingly sent us the Hebrew text of the above passage , with a few corrections , and also a Welsh Version corrected by Dr . Ptighe , but we fear the majority of our readers would not thank us for laying before them a page or two of Welsh and Hebrew , however interesting they might be to the students of these languages . Ed . ]

      Ch . lii . 13 . T O , my servant shall impart wisdom : JLJ He shall be raised up , be exalted , and become rery high ,

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      fers to TiUotsOn , but ir * a general way . Some passages and remarks , and those not a little striking , are taken by Mr . James from that great writer without acknowledgment . This appears to me to be not quite honourable . What use Mr . James may . have made of the ¦

      Archbishop in other publications I have no means of ascertaining ; nor am I at all concerned in any charge but . that to which his letter refers . As to this , the charge of ' Plagiarism *

      is full strong . I do not acquit Mr . James of all blame , but he now appears to me less hiameable , with regard to this one point , which alone I have examined , than he did when

      under the , impression , which was made upon me by the Birmingham , pamphlet , I penned the paragraph of ivhich Mr . James complains . " I must in honour say further that one or two expressions of mine require qualification . The reader might

      suppose that Mr . James was accused of taking an entire sermon of Archbishop Tillotson ' s and giving" it to the world as his own . This , though a natural interpretation of my language , hastily written , would be an incorrect

      representation of my own view of the case . I wish , therefore , to alter the statement , so as to charge Mr , James with no more than using passages of Tillotson ' 3 without that specific acknowledgment which is usual amongst respectable writers .

      " As I have fallen into some error in the ust * of the pen , it behoves me especially to be lenient towards similar errors in others ; and if my heedless over-statement have caused any uneasiness to Mr . Jatiies , or done

      injustice to him in the mind of any reader , I beg that he and they will accept my sincere expression of regret , " ]

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      New Version of Isaiah ? * celebrated Prophecy respecting- Jesus Christ . 159

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1825, page 159, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2534/page/31/