Download or read book Tracts in Controversy With Bishop Horsley written by Joseph Priestley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tracts in Controversy With Bishop Horsley: With Notes by the Editor; To Which Is Annexed, an Appendix, Containing a Review of the Controversy, in Four Letters to the Bishops, by the Same Author, Never Before Published It was the expressed intention of Dr. Priestley in his preface to the Defences of Unitarianism for the years 1788 and 1789, in imitation of his learned opponent Bishop Horsley, to "reprint his Tracts in controversy with that prelate, and to notice any thing which he might think deserving of it, concluding the whole with a serious address to the bishops and to the legislature." This intention, however, not having been fulfilled while Dr. Priestley was living, the publication would probably never have taken place, had it not been for the unfounded and indecent exultation of Dr. Horsley's partisans, who, evidently without knowing any thing of the state of the controversy, kept continually claiming the victory for their chief, and representing Dr. Priestley as a baffled and vanquished adversary. 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.