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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Fleming (search)
anner to have attracted the notice of Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, by whom he was recommended to the patronage of Sir George Fleming, at that time Bishop of Carlisle. This latter prelate actually offered him a presentation to the vicarage of Lazenby, in Cumberland, with the promise of a further more ample provision. At thehe Christian institution authorizes the Christian's observance of the first day of the week as a religious festival. This pamphlet is dedicated to the Bishop of Carlisle, from no other motive, as he himself declares, than a piece of littie fondness for the credit and reputation which might result on the dedicator from his lordshsuch from the earliest period. Whether there was not, after all, involved in Fleming's motives for dedicating this publication to his namesake, the Bishop of Carlisle, a sort of undefined impression that it might be practicable for him, consistently with a just regard for principle and integrity, to accept of his lordship's pa
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, John Taylor, (search)
nguished, had been for many years chiefly known to the public from its connexion with obnoxious and unpopular theological tenets. He appears, indeed, to have been in communication with many of the ,most distinguished churchmen of his time, both for dignity and learning. With Dr. Hayter, then Bishop of Norwich, he constantly maintained a friendly correspondence and personal intercourse. He corresponded, too, with Michaelis and Kennicott, and particularly with Dr. Law, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle. In the interval between the publication of the first and second volumes, he received from the University of Glasgow the degree of D. D.; a literary honour to which few men were better entitled than he, though his great modesty made him surprised at receiving it without solicitation. The terms of the diploma were equally honourable to the body who conferred and to the individual who received it. They eulogize tur morum sanctimoniam, turn ingenium vere liberum, et in nullius sectoe verba