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Comm. Miscell.
Penal Laws against Dissenters "suspended"[a] [a] "shall not extend" are the words in the Toleration Act. The same are the words used in 6. G. 2. 14. only
I have ever looked (says Bishop Burnet) upon
falshoods in History are when fallen into deliberately,
as the worst sort of lying. But if they
are more innocently committed, and are yet from
persisted in after a discovery, they are as bad
as when done on design". The practice of that
candid and enlighten'd Churchman was informed by followed corresponded
with this his theory. Cover'd as he was with
well earned honours, he thought it not beneath
his dignity to submitt to the correction of even anonymous
correspondents, nor to profit from
the censures of critics "willing"‡ ‡ he Reply to Dr Priestly by the Author of the Commentaries. p. last. or unwilling
. Comm. 186. Ld Bacon v. Ld Hale.
Homicide whether lawful in self-preservation from
a common calamity.
Our Author's equal devotion to these two great authorities
never suffer'd him to consider that
Here it is the opinion of Ld Hale that is to govern:
in a former another passage it is the opinion
of Lord Bacon. Our Author's equal devotion to the
authorities opinions of these two great men, did not permitt
him to perceive that the one of them was in opposition
to the other. Thus it is, that he who will give
the runs to obsequiousness while judgment sleeps, must
expect to be driven upon contradictions.
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