THE

MISCELLANEOUS WORKS

OF
JOHN HILDROP, D.D.
Rector of Wati, in Yorkshire.

In TWO VOLUME S.

CONTAINING,
VOL. I.

VOL. II.
An Essay for the better Re- || A ModestApology forthe An.

gulation and Improvement || tient and Honourable Fa-
of Free-THINKING. mily of the WRONGHEADS.
An Essay on Honour. U A Proposal for Revising, &c.

the Ten Commandments.
Free THOUGHTS upon the |
BRUTE-CREATION: In

Contempt of the CLERGY.
two Letters to a LADY. ll Life of Simon Shallow, Efq;

VOL. I.

LOND ON:

Printed by Charles Rivington,
For John and James RIVINGTON, at the Bible
and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard,

MDCC LIV.

ITHE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

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Rr the Importunity of my Friends, I • bave been prevailed upon to publish in this form fome loose Pieces, which at several Times I had offered to the Public, and generally without any Name of the Author ; by which I had often the Pleasure of hearing them ascribed to Perfons, whose very Names do me greater Honour than I could ever expect to receive or deserve. Thus the Letter to a Member of Parliament was generally ascribed to Dean Swift ; and I was assured by a great Dignitary in the Church, that my Reflections upon Reason were writ by the

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