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two-oar boat, read, fcribble, contemplate, 
and fill my foul with ideas of the Great 
Supreme, and with the joyful - profpe& 
of a blefled immortality. Here the blof- 
foms of my flowers. and fruits regale my 
feent ; the lark complimenis me when I 
rife; the cuckow attunes. the morning 
breeze ; the owl fings me to fleep ; and, 
if. E wake in the night, the nightingale, 
beneath my window, lulls me to “reft 
again:— , : 
_ & Thefe are thy works, Parent of Good.” 
Here alfo my diftant friends vit me— 
The lat fortnight, my houle has been fil- 
led with company from Oxford, Abing- 
don, London, &c. and, m their abfence, 
E converfe with the dead in the vait libra- 
ries of this univerfity. O,-how geod is 
Ged to me, and I, with ali thele advan- 
tages, how unprofitable to him! Beft of 
Beings—my Father and my God!» Thy 
perfections are the bafe of my hopes: im 
'Fhee I live, in Thee I move, in Thee I 
have my being! to Thee, to. Thee alone, 
be all the glory! : nih 
_ Believe me, my friend, your introduc- 
tionelevates my foul. It lifts religion off 
the fand of authority, and places it on the 
yock of revelation: it makes the under- 
flanding free as the eye. Go'on’dnd’ 
profper. Bring’ received opinions to’ the 
erucible. Take aff the drofs of human 
authority, antiquity, univerfality, and the 
reft, and. referve for public ufe the pare 
goid of revealed truth. ‘Truth can never 
faffer by trial; and doétribes that fhrink 
from examination and fevere criticifm, 
betray their origin. 
If ever it lies in your way, F fhould be 
happy to fee you at Chefterton ; and when 
you fee my friend Taylor, do me the favor 
to affure him of my moft undifguifed ef- 
teem. stu 
When your’s came, I was juft reading 
the profe works of the divine Milton— 
one of the fir of men. I am never tired 
of hira. Are you acquainted with his 
Areopagitica, for the Liberty of unlimited 
Printing ?— 
¢¢ This is true liberty, when free-born 
men, ‘ 
Having to advife the public, may fpeak 
free.” 
Pardon the length of this. I donot often 
offend in this way. Without ceremony, 
farewell, : 
Ever your's. 
-R. Rosinsow, 
§22 Original Letters, by Mr. Robinfon, Tee [ Jan. Jy. 
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4 COPY Of an ORIGINAL LETTER from 
WILLIAM MOLYNEAUX, ESQ. f0 DR» 
EDMUND HALLEY. Ch pe wy 
e Chefier, Munday, 08. 6th, 18904 
‘MY EVER HONOUR’D FRIEND, ee 
a AM extreamly happy in your friend- 
Ship and correfpondence, and I thould 
think myfelf the more fo; could I make 
returns fuitable to your kindnefs. The 
care and trouble you take about my trifles.. 
is a favdur and. act. of friendfhip. EL fhall 
never be able fufficiently to efteem; and E 
find you are fo extraordinary accurate in 
your corrections, that you leave nothing for 
areview. I perceive you approve of the 
alteration IF propofe in page 21. Idefire 
you wou’d move.a_ little. therein, and as 
foon as the printer has‘alter’d, according 
tothe form ¥ fent. you-in.mine of Sept: — 
I defre that. quarter of a fheet may be 
fent_ me: the laf. fheet: Lreceiv’d is the 
fheet P: “tis now a fortnight fince I. re- 
ceiv’d any; I fear fome are mifcarried, 
but perhaps the poft that comes in-here 
this evening may bring the continuation. 
T have your's of the.30th of Septembere > 
what you therein offer is moft admirably . 
curious, which makes me the more con- 
cern’d at. the mifcarriage.of your former 3 
T entreat you to repair.this lofs, by. recol- 
lecting what you-then writ, and fending-it 
tome; and, at the fame time, be pleas’d: 
to add an example or two,. to illuftrate: 
what you gave me in-your laf.) any 4 
I have promifed. Mr. Tooke a copy of 
my book, in Latin, to beftow on fome fos 
reign book(eller, if it be worth their pains 
to publifh it im-that language. I fhall 
then crave your leave to infert your inge- * 
nious thoughts on’this fubject, aflerting | 
them, with all imaginable gratitude, to 
their own learned author. freon 0h 
The devigne of my, Englihh editioa is. 
chiefly to propagate this part of ‘the ma- 
thematicks(hitherte untouch’d) in ourewn ‘; 
language to thofe that are not mafters of | 
the Latin, as alfo to render. it as’plainand | 
intelligible as I cou’d to the capacity of | 
ordinary gedmeters; for I acknowledge 
my abilitys reach no others; fo that, td. 
Jech your profound {peculations concerning 
this affair would be loft. But I know } 
there arefome Geep mathematicians plaim 5 
Englifh-men, and therefare, if, for their 
fakes, and to grace my poor work, you | 
would add where you pleafe, thereto, any. 
of your own ingenious thoughts in this - 
fubject, I fhould acknowledge the obliga- 
tion infinite. And becaufe your own in= 
ventions of this kind are fo far more ex 
cellent than mine, and furpals them fo far 
I in 
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