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freedom all opinions that appeared to me 

 erroneous, without enquiring who might 

 have adopted them ; and if I have uninten- 

 tionally wounded you through Mr. Brown, 

 I am, on every account, fmcerely grieved 

 that you flood within the line of fire. 



The refpeclability of your profefhon, I 

 never meant to call in queftion, though I will 

 frankly own, that, from what I have faid, 

 there was fufncient reafon for your Handing 

 forth in its defence : I was anxious, on the 

 contrary, that it fhould have a refpeclability 

 which it hitherto had not deferved, by being 

 founded on more juft, more enlarged, and 

 more liberal principles. It was partly with 

 that view (and I hope I may fay fo without 

 prefumption) that I wifhed to cultivate your 

 acquaintance ; and I mould not have courted 

 the profelfor, had I wifhed to lower the pro- 

 fefhon. You are the firft of that profeffion 

 whofe acquaintance I ever did defire, for you 



are 



