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Excerpt from The Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, 1826, Vol. 4 We can account for this extraordinary proceeding on no other principle, than that of some of those stern public necessi ties to which all the minor morals must now and then give way. If Dr. Hobart has been unhappily placed in the formidable alternative of sacrificing the conventional honour of society, and the still more delicate honour of his cloth, to the sovereign mandate of his majesty the mob we must lament that he should have been so tried. But still more repugnantly should we believe, that Dr. Hobart had volunteered this offensive publication; that he had been thinking only of a vulgar flourish to announce his arrival in America; and that any unfortunate eagerness to grasp the contemptible popularity attached to libelling England, should have betrayed him into a flimsy and fantastic declamation, stiffened out with charges, which, if he had not examined, it was rashness and presumption in him to mention; and which, if he had examined, and even found to be true, he should have been the last man to mention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.