OF THE Muncaster DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, IN VOLS. IV, V, AND VI, QUARTO, REVIEWED. BY THE REV. JOHN WHITAKER, B. D. RECTOR OF RUAN-LANYHORNE, CORNWALL. LONDON: RINTED FOR J. MURRAY, N° 32, FLEET STREET. M.DCC.XCI. 31-50 72609 ADVERTISEMENT. THE following remarks were drawn up by me, for infertion in the ENGLISH REVIEW. I am no reviewer by profeffion. I became one in this inftance, from a defire of ferving the caufe of religion. And the remarks were publifhed in that review, through a courfe of ten months. In a little time afterwards, I was advised by a nobleman of the first rank in respectability, and nearly the first in reality, to republifh them in the prefent form. I propofed the plan to my bookseller the proprietor of the Review, and be demurred upon it. He found however afterwards, that the remarks were called for when the Reviews were no longer to be had. He now urged me himself, therefore, to an immediate republication of them. I refolved to revise them for the purpose, and waited for an hour of leifure to do fo. That bour was long in coming. The republication has thus been delayed to the prefent moment. And I now prefix my name to the whole, in order to ferve the fame caufe for which the whole was originally written. Religion (to ufe the allufion, which I once heard from a witty man of genius) I hope, I shall always confider as the • Sanctum Punctum,' and learning only as the Glory' Surrounding it. J. W. March 3d, 1791. |