[The Prose Works of William Wordsworth by William Wordsworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prose Works of William Wordsworth PREFACE 6/1026
31, 32), including WORDSWORTH. There was no such 'turning' of brain with him.
He was deliberate, judicial, while at a red heat of indignation.
To measure the quality of difference, intellectually and morally, between WORDSWORTH and another noticeable man who entered into controversy with Bishop WATSON, it is only necessary to compare the present Letter with GILBERT WAKEFIELD'S 'Reply to some Parts of the Bishop of Landaff's Address to the People of Great Britain' (1798). The manuscript is wholly in the handwriting of its author, and is done with uncharacteristic painstaking; for later, writing was painful and irksome to him, and even his letters are in great part illegible.
One folio is lacking, but probably it contained only an additional sentence or two, as the examination of the Appendix is complete.
Following on our ending are these words: 'Besides the names which I.' That the Reader may see how thorough is the Answer of WORDSWORTH to Bishop WATSON, the 'Appendix' is reprinted _in extenso_.
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