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    a narrative has been £ JV by aimself of all the particulars of his life , in the excellent Memoirs of himself to the period of his leaving England , and by his son , in continuation , to the time of his death .

    ( which , having been reprinted in so cheap a form by the several Unitarian Societies , are probably in jthe hands pf mo&t of your rea ^ er ^) that 1 shal l confine myself iq thjs historical essay , to the period © r his connection with the VVtarjington Academy . It appears , from the work above refgrretf to > that although almost evefy branch of literature had , at one time or another , engaged his attention , he would have preferred ihe mathematical and philosophical chair , if it had happened to be Vacant . But though he dis * . linctly states * that he had no

    parj fr Page 4 Z . The grpss perversion of this passage by Messrs . Bogue and Bennett nas been Well exposed b ' v vour able

    Revfd ^ er , in p . 637 , dryour last volume . A yj 6 rs $ perversion Which they and several others * have dared to make of his death Led conversation with his family is also judiciously animadverted upon :

    but the author has been often mortified to see how his enemies and the enemies of truth have triumphed , and how Scrutator and others have laboured after explanations , and made admissions , to which they wpujd never have been driven , if an over-nicety had not

    prevented the proper application from being given . It is known to too many persons , to expect that any silence can bury it in oblivion , and if this were possible , it would not be desirable , at the cxpence of the permanent settlement of even the shadow of a cloud upon the bright 6 C £ ne of his departure to a better

    worldl y thai the misconduct of a . near relation was the cau $ e of greater distress an&gbrrow to Dr . Priestley , than any , or than alt , the other events of hb | ife : and it w&b no doubl , tp tbis unhappy cir-CUI ? W ^ S * *** $ wot to any tn $ g connected with his own pcrs 6 nal Conduct or its consequences , and , least ^ all , to any circumstance or imagined corise-

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    ticular fondness for the studies connected with the chair to which he was invited , yet he applied to them with great assiduity , wheu he had once accepted the chargel But it may well be presumed * from the account which he gives of bis early education , ( p . 4 , 5 . )

    from his constant close attention to classical studies , in coojuctiori with his friend Alexander ( p . 18 ) , both at Daventry , and afterwards , and from his subsequent engagements as a teacher of youth , that he brought with him to

    Warrington , a very extensive acquaintance with languages , both antiefnt and modern , * both of which he taught at Warrington ; and his Lectureson tlie

    quence connected with the calm and placid bouj" of dissolution , that he alludes , when he assures his son , that tbp view of future punishment * in Mr . Simpson's pamphlet , " would be a suj * - port to him in the most tryixig " cii ' - cumstanccs , as it had been to himself . " If this could possibly have admitted of a doubt , it would have been

    completely set aside , if one singte sentence more had been printed of the beautiful letter addressed to Mr . Lindsey , April 15 , 18 O 3 ( life of Lindsey , App . p . 537 ) . As the writer happens to possess a copy of that letter , he ventures ( suo periculo ) to subjoin it ; After

    expressing his belief * that even the wickeel will , after a state of wbolesome discipline , be raised in due time , to a state of happiness , " he adds , " This is a very sensible relief to rny roind , with respect to a person , whose delation to myself * Jt cannot fprget , and for whom I cannot

    forbear to Feel most sensibly . " ? Although in' the niceties trf verbal criticism , for wbich , certainly ^ his ' fefttfa ? multifarious pursuits allowed liftle time ; -he was , no doubt , txcejled by , o > any others , his general famih ^ ity ^ ith , jhi Greek and Roman Classics , as well as

    with the fifthers of HheChriHtSaii Cnu ^ ch , is raatrifest , not orrly in hi > Histories of Cprsu ^ tipns and Ear | y OpinioPs , apd % the ctotroversies . orcamwa by tiMwi * b \ it UlSo'Tn ( nfe # ^ ftder fur VaKet |^ H aptness of the mottos prefixed to his almost numberleta publications , and i »

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    Historical demount of the Wurrington Academy . £%

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1813, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2427/page/7/