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Huntington Library, HM 4860 . Previously published: J. W. Robberds (ed.), A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich, 2 vols (London, 1843), II, pp. 229–232.
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Coleridge I understand has ordered some of his Prospectuses
Will he go on with this undertaking, – will be your first question. He can do it with little more trouble than that of
arranging & putting together fragments already in existence, & yet I will own to you that I have great
doubts & misgivings. – I do not like the Prospectus. It is too much like what it pretends to be, too fit for a letter, to be proper
for the public. There is an injudicious adulation, as it may almost be called, of his friends, & an overdone
xxxxabasement of himself, – on the whole a want of manliness which I cannot away with. But assuredly if he carries it into
effect great things will be done; – sounder criticism & sounder philosophy established as well as addressed, than modern ages have
seen; great truths upholden, & the axe laid at the root of those great errors which have been for the last century held
xxxxxxxxto be the very name & thirty articles of philosophical faith.
When you collect your synonimes you would do well to mark what is the existing use of words, as well as to hunt out
their primary meaning. I am almost pleased that you persevere so steadily in this collection, which will form a very valuable book in
itself, & be of signal utility to the compilers of a national dictionary, whenever that work shall be undertaken.xxxxwhich he conducts will always have its full complement of dull matter, – but this was a curious collection of facts
about the change of climate in the last fifty years, put together more meo,to the that the politicks are not in accord
with his own.
What a precious article is that in defence of Polygamy!t Pauls authority, that it is unjust to put a heathen wife away
against her consent, & perceiving the cruelty of giving x our institutions a retroactive effect, in this case. The only
difference they make is that a man under such circumstances is not appointed to any office in the church. Thus xx the
obstacle to conversion is effectually removed, & they the children being educated Xtians, naturally obey the Xtian
ordinances. I am writing a View & Vindication of the existing Protestant missions for an unborn review which has never yet been
heard of, & has as yet neither name nor existence, but will <hoist the bloody flag> run along side the Edinburgh
& engage her yard arm & yard arm.ds Sidney Smith made of this subject of the Missions!
Wordsworth is writing a pamphlet upon the cursed Cintra-Convention,
My Brazil goes off to press in a few days,of free opinion which nothing but free opinion & the love of God & man can give, & you
will not be disappointed.