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graceful nots which occurred there , on the 14 th of July i a that year . , The particulars of these horrible outrages- are well * known , and will be Found irftivo " Appeals' * which he published on . the subject ^ written soon after they took place . As he was in great personal danger oil this occasion ., he came to Lohdx >! i , arid , sometime after his arrival thither , lie was invited
tosireceed Dr ; Price in the GraveUpit Congregation at Hacfcrtey . Iij this situation , he Says ^ he spent his-time , upon ^ the whole , etfen more happily than hehad done before , having- every &d r rantage far his philosophical and theologies ? studies , in styrne respect superior to what he enjoyed at Birminghain , especially from his easy access to Mr . Lincfsey , and his frequent iiitercoarse withr Mr . Belshaiii , who was then professor of divinity in the New College , near to which the Doctor lived . His
continuance at Hackney was but of short duration : he was obliged to submit to greater , sufferings , in some respects , than aUy ' which he had yet endured * Religious and political bigotry , aided by the intolerant spirit of the government and ' -the ' -time&
still singled him out as their victhti . His situation ^ indeed ^ was become , if not hazartl&ug , at least so unpleasant as to satisfy him that his r&moval would be of more service to the cause of truth , than his Longer continuance in England . Accordingly ,, on the 8 th of April 1794 , he set sail from London , and on the 4 th of June he arrived at New York < . From
New-York he went to Philadelphia , and- ' thence to I ^ prthiimberlancl iri Pennsylvania , where he took up his residence . The prin * cipal part of these memoirs is dated Birmingham , 1787 : at J ^ ort huniberlaiid , however , he added a Postscript , bringing them down to 1795 , and here his oWh narrative closes . Before vve leave the posthumous part of this volume , we shall quote the following interesting passage , as it contains the phi-Josophy of this distinguished man , illustrated in his own
indi-Vidual example . rr Though my readers will easily suppose , that , in the course of & Jife so full of vicissitude as mine has been , many things must have occurred to mortify and discompose me , nothing has ever depressed my tnind beyond a very short period . My spirits have neter failed to recover th 6 ir natural Jevel ; and I have frequently observed , and at first with some surprise ^ that the most perfect satisfaction I liive ever
feit has beeh a day or two after an event that afflicted me the most , and without any change having taken , place in the state of things . Having found this to be the case after many of my troubles ^ the persiaa ^ loh t ^ iat it tbould be so , after a new caus ^ of uneasiness , has nrever gulfed to lessen the effect of its first impress jon ^ and , together with \ x ± y iirm belief of the doctrine of necessity (^ ndeonseatiently that o £ everything being oVdered for the best ) , has . contributed to that degree of composure which I havfe epjoyed through life ; so that I have dhvayi ^ onsid ^ red myself as one of tl ^ ie happiest of men . °
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/39/
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