Miscellaneous Papers

AUNCEY HAR

INTRODUCTION

BY THE LAT

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ndon, on the 25th of February 1868. Hi

r; and beg of him to publish without alteration as much of my notes and reflections as may make known my opini

preferred, and formalities insisted on by the authorities of the Canton de Vaud. When at length the whole of his late friend’s papers passed into the Literary Executor’s hands, it was found that Religious Opinions were scattered up and down through a variety of memoranda and note-books, the gradual accumulation of years and years. Many of the following pages were carefully transcribed, numbered, connected,

the clue to a precise plan, which could have greatly simplified the presentation of these views; and he has devoted the first section of this volume to Mr. Townshend’s own notes of his comprehensive intentions. Proofs of the devout spirit in which they were conceived, and of the sense of responsibility with which he worked at them, abound through the whole mass of papers. Mr. Townshend’s varied attainments, delicate tastes, and amiable and ge

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