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    * JBttt # rKat pt £ iieipally enal&ed him to da so liitich was regularity ;^ for it does not appear that at any period of his life he spent mote than six or eight hours a day jn business that required much mental exeiv tioii . ^ I find in the same diarjr , which I have quoted from above , that he laid down the following ^ daily arrangement of time for a minister

    studies : — -Studying the Scriptures , one hour ; practical writers , half an JiQur ^ p hUosqpliy and Jiistory , two i ^ o ^ irs ; classics , half an hour ; compositioQ , one hour—in all five hours . He ad $ s below * all which may be conveniently dispatched before < Unner , which leaves the afternoon for visitirig and company , and the evening for exceeding in any Article , if thlere be occasion . Six hours not too much / nor seven /

    y && . the time he was engaged about the most important works ; and when he was not busily employed in making experiments , h © always had leisure for company , of which he was fond . He never appeared hurried or behind-hand . He , however , never carried his jcojpaplaisaqce so far as to neglect the daily task he had imposed upon himself ; but asJhe was uniformly an early riser , aQdvdispatchedChis more serious pursuits in the morning , it rarely happened out t | iat he could accomplish the labours assigned for the day , without having

    occasion to withdraw -from visitors at home , or society abroad , or giving reason to suppose that the company of others ^ as a restraint upon his pumutSo ** We regret much that our limits will not permit us to tr ^ nfrcribe thfe concluding scene of his life , which is in a high

    degree interesting . The first part of his illness , independently of his gefae ^ l weakness ^ the result of aa illness he had in Philadelphia in 1801 , was a constant indigestion , and a difficulty of swallowing m £ frt > or any kind of solid food , unless previously x-edu ££ cl by niastication to a perfect pulp . This gradually

    increased upon him , an $ f from the beginning of Nov . 18 O 3 to the middle of J anuary 1804 , his can ) plaint grew jnqre serious . On Thursday the 24 of February , he wrote for the last time itt his diary . On Friday and Saturday Jhe was gather better , but on Sunday he grew much weaker , and on Monday the 6 th Feb . 1804- he expired ., apparently \ vithout any pain ; having only

    half an hour befoxe dictated to his son and Mr . Cooper , as clearly and distinctly . as he had ever done in his life , some additions and alterations he wished to have made jn some of his V-orks . Judge Coopers observations onihe writings of Dr . Priestley contain , upon the whole , a very masterl y ¦" review of that part of

    the Doctor ' s worjvs wyhich his design embraces . We could have wished , however , that some sentiments contained in the fourth Appendix had appeared almost anjr where el ^ e gather than in . connexion with the Life of Dr > Priestley , where we think they are xx&X very appropriate . To us it appears ^ that the arguments for or against spontaneous vitality must , in the present state of our know ledge j be chiefly drawn ' from analogy ; and analogy ^ in our opinion , is decisive in her vqrdict ^ gaiilst equivocal gene- ^

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    Memoirs of Dr . Ptie $ tley > % 89

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/41/