Wm Tidd Matson - Note 1

Vide Appendix, C.

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 2

Rev. R.Douglas of Galashiels

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 3

Robert Chambers in his Cyclopoedia of English Literature writing of the hymns in question as "exquisite devotional strains," declares them to possess "a finished elegance and beauty of diction which certainly Bruce does not seem to have been capable of giving."

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 4

He had been dead eight years before the revision of the old paraphrases was called for.

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 5

The remarkable coincidence of this phrase is in itself decisive. It is a most peculiar and idiosyncratic form of expression. Not one person in ten thousand would have employed it.

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 6

Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol.14, Ninth Edition

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 7

Vide Appendix, A.

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 8

Essay on Warren Hastings

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Wm Tidd Matson - Note 9

It may have been a mere inadvertence. Logan published among his poems his revisions of the old paraphrase. This hymn of Doddridge's had undergone revision at his hands, and he may have mistaken it for one of these paraphrases, overlooking or forgetting the source whence it had been derived.

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Editorial note

In the original pamphlet, opening quotation marks are missing from the sentence ending . . . his brother Michael"

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(The Rejoice & Sing Enchiridion:edited by David Goodall; last amended 6/8/02)