The works of the Rev. William Thom, late minister ... - waughfamily.ca

LETTERS, TRACTS, cfV. 36tipon their tlifavowing the addrefs, the fociety eafily'foreiaw ; and therefore, after long and mature deliberation,they at length took the refolution to acknowledgeand defend it. There were fome things, in thatfpurious paper which were tolerable, others not quiteabfurd, and even the mod grofs and palpable blundersin it might admit of a plaufible apology, or bevarniflied over with a fpecious colouring ;for wha^ isoccafions, made a further over-there fo execrably flupid and abfurd which the elo-,4}uence of a learned man, enforced by that veneratioawhich is commonly paid to a learned fociety, cannotpalliate and defend ? Accordingly, this refolution beingagreed to, the learned gentleman who had fuggeiledit, agreeable to that magnanimity which chara6i:erifethhim on allture to the fociety. He offered to encounter perfon-