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Mr . Joseph Priestley has continued hist-father ' s memoirsfrom 1795 to his death . He informs us it was the intention of lite father ^ had his life been prolonged * to have complied with the suggestion of his friends , in introducing into his memoirs apecdotes of the principal literary and political characters which his singularly-varied society and extensive knowledge of the world had given him opportunities of being acquainted with He thought ^ however * little about his memoirs , ia
comparison with the works about which he was then engaged , and -which he wished should be ready for the press before he begari to complete his narrative . This ,, unfortunately , was too late ; the particular work he had in hand not being completed till within about a fortnight of his death , when he was very weak $ and suffered greatly from his disorder .
tjpon Dr * Priestley ' s arrival in America , he received iliany very flattering testimonies of respect for his character , botn from individuals and public bodies ; and ' till his death he enjoyed the esteem of the wisest and best men ia the country ^
particularly at Philadelphia , where his religion and politics did not prevent his being kindly and cheerfully received by a number of persons of opposite opinions in both , who thus paid homage to his knowledge and virtue . With Mr . Jefferson , the
President , he frequently corresponded , and they had for each other a mutual regard and esteem : nor wer , e his , friends in England deficient in their expressions of attachment to his . merits ana character . By individual benefactions and friendly subscript fcions , they substantially testified their esteem ;
In America , notwithstanding his advanced age , Dr . JPnestley exhibited the same activity of mind as he had done in his native country . His studies were of the same kind as those which had occupied his attention at Leeds * Birmingham , ana Hackney . We must refer our readers to the Life itself for an .
account of his writings which were published in Aqnerica , as well as those which , he published in this country . The limited nature of pur work will not permit their complete enumeration ; When we look at the long catalogue of his labours , we are astonished that so much should have been accomplished by d man , who , in addition to the discharge of his duties as a minis- * ter of the gospel ,, " had always time sufficient jjor society ana recreation . It was by systematic regularity , more than intensity of application , that Dr . Priestley was enabled to effect so much ; and it has been only by the same liieans that the wise and the good , in all ages , have extended , as it were , the na * tural period of their existence , and raised such splendid ma jpuments of human ingenuity and labour *
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485 Memoirs of DK PritHlty *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 488, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/40/
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