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I~ORD BISI-IOP OF CARLISLE.
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. HAD the obligations which I
o\ve to your 1~ordship'8 kindness been
much less, or much fewer, than they
are; had personal gratitude left any
place in my mind for deliberation or
for enquiry; in selecting a name which
every reader might confess to be prefixed
"\vith propriety to a \vork, that, in
nlany of its parts, bears no obscure relation
to the general principles of natural
and revealed religion, I should have
found myself directed by many consid­
{~rations to that of the Bishop of Carlisle.
A iong life spent in the most interesting
of all hU!llan pursuits, the in-
\~cstigation of moral and religious truth,
;n constant and nn,vearied endeavours.