PRINTED FOR J. FAULDER; LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN; J. RICHARDSON; WILKIE AND ROBINSON; J. WALKER; ΤΟ THE RIGHT REVEREND EDMUND LAW, D. D. LORD BISHOP OF CARLISLE. MY LORD, HAD the obligations which I owe to your Lordship's kindness been much less, or much fewer, than they are; had personal gratitude left any place in my mind for deliberation or for inquiry; in selecting a name which every reader might confess to be prefixed with propriety to a work, that, in many of its parts, bears no obscure relation to the general principles of natural and revealed religion, I should have found myself directed by many considerations to that of the Bishop of Carlisle. A long life spent in the most interesting of all human pursuits-the investigation of moral and religious truth, in constant and unwearied endeavours to advance the dis |