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Αληθειαν και Παρρησίαν.

OF THE

LIF FE

OF

GILBERT WAKEFIELD, B. A.

LATE FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

WEITTEN BY HIMSELF.

Και но δοχει μεγίςην θεον τοις ανθρωποις ή φυσις αποδείξαι την Αλη
θειαν, και μεγίςην αυτή προςθείναι δύναμιν. Παντων γεν αυτην κατα
γωνιζομενων, ενίοτε δε και πασων των πιθανοτητων μελα το ψευδός τατο
τομενων, εκ οίδ' όπως αυτη δι ̓ αυτης εις τας ψυχας ειςδύεται των
ανθρώπων και ποτε μεν παραχρημα δείκνυσι την αυτης δυναμιν, ποτε δε,
πολύν χρόνον επισκοτισθείσα, τελῶ αυτη δι ̓ ἑαυτης επικρατεί, και και
ταγωνίζεται το ψευδ

He was fuperior to all those passions and affections, which attend vUL-
CAR MINDS, and was guilty of no other ambition than of KNOWLEDGE,
and to be reputed a LOVER OF ALL GOOD MEN; and that made him too
much a contemner of those arts which must be indulged in the trans
actions of human affairs.-LORD CLARENDON

LONDON:

PRINTED BY E. HODSON, BELL-YARD;

AND SOLD BY J. DEIGHTON, HOLBORN, OPPOSITE
GRAY'S-INN.

1792.

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ABMUCO YTQGVINU

To MR. GEORGE WAKEFIELD,

Merchant of Manchefter.

MY DEAR BROTHER,

IT has been foretold, as a general maxim, that the principal enemies to the great advocates of religious truth, would be thofe of their own houfhold. It is It is my happiness to experience the reverse of this prediction, in four brothers, whose estimable qualities endear them to all their acquaintance, and whofe benevolence to me could not be exceeded. These public acknowledgements of kindness are in the exclufive poffeffion of us authors; and this you must accept from me, as a partial payment for great and numerous fervices. If you, and they, feel any portion of pride or satisfaction from these memoirs of one fo nearly related

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