General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . oning, accurate discrimination,and much liberality and candour of spirit. 1 he-first is entitled Letters to the HonourableMr. Justice Blackstbne, concerning his Expo-sition of the Act of Toleration, and some Posi-tions relating to religious Liberty, in his cele-brated Commentaries on the Laws of England,8vo. 1770. Notwithstanding that th» learnedjudge did neither answer this treatise, nor makeany public acknowledgment
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . oning, accurate discrimination,and much liberality and candour of spirit. 1 he-first is entitled Letters to the HonourableMr. Justice Blackstbne, concerning his Expo-sition of the Act of Toleration, and some Posi-tions relating to religious Liberty, in his cele-brated Commentaries on the Laws of England,8vo. 1770. Notwithstanding that th» learnedjudge did neither answer this treatise, nor makeany public acknowledgment of his having in-cautiously exposed himself to the animadversionscontained in it, yet that he felt their force mayfairly be concluded from the alteration or theomission of some of the obnoxious passages inthe subsequent editions of his excellent the second edition of these letters Dr. subjoined th< ent and arguments— tive speech of lord Mansfield, in the cause be-tween the dissenters and die city of London inthe-House of Lords, in the year 17^7; whichhe wrote from memory, but with such correct-ness, that, it received the fall approbation of J* JD. If .-£/;?•..-.• Uabtrvtrma/is ft— » ^;^rtiviitj ^trrrnpr- ^ Jrwcfttj. -/Jsmitia. inCBorcKJrne ft -£i/CJiurrJe ^ur/rtnfierj. (not M J) C X
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