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MEMOIR S.

VOL. I.

B

MEMOIRS.

CHAP. I.

From 1746 to 1776.

THE papers left by the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr, and left by him without any limitation to the Rev. John Lynes, may be divided into three classes.

First. Irregular series of narrative, or detailed relations of facts, or scraps; sometimes entering into minute family or personal history, and sometimes enlarging or reasoning upon events connected with them.

Secondly. A collection of letters from himself to the most distinguished persons of the age, and from the most distinguished persons of the age to him, which, if they could be minutely looked over and published in order, would in themselves be an ample history of his life.

Thirdly. A vast mass of critical, metaphysical, historical, political, and theological discussion.

These sources of information are invaluable in establishing the certainty of facts, and in connecting them together from the beginning to the end of Dr. Parr's life-they are invaluable as a history of his friends, and in part, of the literary period in which he lived. Even of the tradition of the times

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