The Quarterly Review, Volume 10William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 89 - I was born and baptized in the bosom of the Church of England established by law : in that profession I have ever since lived, and in that I come now to die. This is no time to dissemble with God, least of all in matters of religion ; and therefore I desire it may be remembered, I have always lived in the Protestant religion established in England, and in that I come now to die.