...believed," he says in his Memoirs, " that the " majority of English readers were so fondly attached even to the " name and shadow of Christianity, had I foreseen...pious, " the timid, and the prudent, would feel, or affeft to feel, with " such exquisite sensibility, I might, perhaps, have softened the " two invidious...

...believed that the majority of English readers were so fondly attached even to the name and shadow, had I foreseen that the pious, the timid, and the prudent would feel, or would affect to feel, with such exquisite sensibility, — I might perhaps have softened the two invidious...

...emollient handling: 'Had I believed that the majority of Engllsh readers were so fondly atrached even to the name and shadow of Christianity, had I foreseen...perhaps have softened the two invidious Chapters, which would create many enemies and conciliate few friends.'i4 Gone, too, was the proud and unshaken...

...Sir David Dalrymple, and Dr. White, of Oxford. As the result of the whole, he says, " Had I believed that the majority of English readers were so fondly...exquisite sensibility, I might perhaps have softened those invidious chapters, which would create many enemies, and conciliate few friends. But the shaft...

...society and Parliament ? Had I believed that the majority of English readers were so fondly attached even to the name and shadow of Christianity, had I foreseen...perhaps have softened the two invidious Chapters, which would create many enemies and conciliate few friends. But the shaft was shot, the alarm was sounded,...

...remarks. " Had I believed," says he, " that the majority of English readers were so fondly attached, even to the name and shadow of Christianity ; had I foreseen...perhaps have softened the two invidious chapters, which would create many enemies, and conciliate few friends." ' pp. x, xi. Had those chapters been...