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    ARTICLE J % . Memoirs of Dr . Joseph Priestley to the Ye&r 17 £ 5 > written by himself ; with a Voniiniiatiqi } to tj ^ e Tim e " of his JJel cease > by his Son Joseph Priestley r ; and Observations on his Writings , by Thomas Cooper President Judge of the Fourth District of Pennsylvania , > andiheKev . W'MicCm Christie , 8 vo . lps . 6 d . pp . 481 . Johnson . 18 O 6 . V

    ( Continued from p » 434 . ) : AFTt | t a residence of six years at Wafrington , E | r . Priestley accepted of an invitation to take the charge of the congregation of MUl ^ hi !! chapel at Leeds , and thither ^ ie removed m September . 1767 . ? '

    € < At Leecis ,, ' * he , observes , " I co&tmued six years very happy with ^ liberal ., friendly , and harmonious congregcitioh , to whom my set-i vices ( of which ' I was not sparing ) were very acceptable . Here I had 110 unreasonable prejudices to contend with , so that I bad full scopd for every kind of e ^ ertipn j and I can truly say , that j always considered the office of a Christian minister as tbe most honourable of anyj upon earth 5 and in the studies proper tp it , I always took the greatest pleasure . ; c < In this siftiation , I naturally resumed my application to speculative theology , which had occupied ntie at Needham , aiid which had been

    interrupted hy the business of teaching , at ^ Nantwich and Warringfon . By readiiiff with care Dr . Lardner ' s *< Letter on the Logos / M b £ earn ^ what is called a Socinian , soon after my bettleiriept at Leeds y and after giving the closest attention to the subject ^ I h ave seen more ahd mor $ j rpasoii to be satisfied with that opinion to tfijs day , and likewise to be * fnofe impressed with the idea of its importance ^ Lee Dr

    If ^^ s at ds that . Priestley began his experiments on * iirv in the prosecution of which he made such brilliant discoveries , as eventually introduced a new and important aera in the history of cheixiical science . Dr . Priestley ' s name , as a chemical philosopher , ha $ , of late years , been taken less notice

    of than his real merits deserve . Tb-is has been owing , partly to the unpopuUr character of his political and theological opinions ^ and-partly to his adhering to the system of phlogiston , in opposition to the theory of the French chemists , which , since the introduction of their new nomenclature ^ has occupied , almost exclusively , the whole of the public attention . The

    elegance and bewitching simplicity of the French system is indeed so fascinating , that . we need not wonder at the universality of its conquests . Dr . Priestley , however , considered its principles inadequate to the solution of varioqs important phsenom ^ na , and , to the very last , he withheld his assent to it . The arguments in support of his opinion / and in favour of phldgisipn 3 he published a little while before l \ h death . They ought ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 484, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/36/