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Ch.11. III. Seat-selling

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14 Jan y 1813 Inserendumne?

I speak from confessions made by him to intimates - made by him, and not altogether without uneasiness. For he left it to such reverend persons /divines/ as the Reverend D r O'Meera, and the Reverend Sidney Smith A.M. to substitute to confessions, professions such as those made by the last mentioned of those two reverend divines, when by way of setting himself right in the opinion of the public after the /in answer to certain/ strictures made upon his sermons in a Review he takes occasion to declare

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Suppose now that in the purchase of two benefices, equal the both of them in emolument and dignity, these two reverend gentlemen, having been both of them successful, the Irish Divine had paid the price proposed by him to have been paid /for his benefice/ in money for his benefice, and the English in another sort of coin /a coin of a somewhat different stamp/, viz in the coin paid for it by the publication of such declarations and professions: - which in the eyes of those who may have the honour of numbering themselves among their respective intimates would the bargain be at the long run the most advantageous? A question this which might serve for giving employment to the casuists. /such casuists as/