“Dear and excellent Mr. Roscoe,—Accept my hearty thanks for the most valuable present with which you have honoured me. I expected your book with much impatience, under the fullest conviction that you have triumphed over all the difficulties of your subject. It is your right and your duty to speak out on the motives of agents, as well as on the effects of actions; and in me you will
1 “Roscoe’s Life and Pontificate of Leo X., 4th edition.—To the Rev. Dr. Parr, these volumes, improved by his corrections, and honoured by his remarks, are respectfully presented by the author.”—Bibl. Parr. p. 383. |
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