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it , but unfortunately , although it contains and has for its principal object a paraphrase and explanation of the prophecies
contained in the book of the Revelation , in their regular series , instead of a plain and popular title under which , in the opinion of
some of his literary friends as well as the bookseller , it would niost probably by this time have gone through several editions , Mr . E . adopted the above undescriptive unpopular title , and only a few hundred copies have beea sold .
Mr . Evanson being obliged to quit his house at Lympston
afc-Midsummer 1803 , and having previously searched through that neighbourhood without meeting with one to suit him , his sisters having lately settled on the borders of Gloucestershire , he was induced to go into that county ; hearing of a house at Mitcheldean , about twelve miles beyond Gloucester , he went to see it , but not answering the description , he there heard bf another ,
the lease of which , with nine acres of meadow land , was to be
sold , with the furniture , and immediate possession to be given , at the little market town ^ of-Colford , about ten miles further * and about five miles from Monmouth , which he found as convenient and eligible as it had been described . Terms were agreed upon , and Mr . E . was in a few days settfed , with every
comfort and convenience but society , and this out of his own family he couldhave no expectation of meeting with at Colford * In May 1804 , having some business in London , he paid a visit
to the metropolis , a circumstance which gave great pleasure to his friends there , little then thinking from the general appearance of his health , that they saw him for the last time . From a disposition to asthma , he always found the air of London hurtful to him , and although he did not stay quite three weeks the last few days he was hoarse , and had great difficulty in breathing , of which he did not quite get the better till some time after his return home .
The following winter the oppression on his breath increased ^ and in February L 8 O 5 , he was seized with the same complaint which terminated the valuable life of Dr . Priestley , a stricture in the OEsophagus ; this' preventing his taking a sufficient quantity of food he gradually wasted in flesh , and was much weakened . So perfectly was he resigned to his situation , that he thought it not worth while at his time of life to seek for medi £ a
aid , till the pressing intreatiesof his family made him consent to go over to Clifton to consult Dr . Beddoes , who gave him considerable hope that as the complaint was taken in time there was great probability of relief , if not a complete cure . He then took lodgings , and put himself under the care of this celebrated physician , and a skilful surgeon . So studious was he at all times to give pleasure , and so unwilling to give pain - w
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Rev . Edward Evanson , A . M . A 59
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/3/
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