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body is acquainted with the use polemics make of such like epithets . * It appears unnecessary to say much more of this great and good raan ^ whose memory I shall ever cherish with the greatest pleasure , and whose virtues I shall ever revere . He has now
finished his warfare below , and to that Master only whpm he has so faithfully and honourably served will he have to give an account , and at whose tribunal his awn works will be tried , and also the works of those whose ignorance or malignity have led them to cast out his name as evil , and even in some instances
to endeavour to sweep him from the face of the earth . The simplicity and affability of his manners , and the c | ieei % fill complacency of his countenance , had a tendency to create respect in the people of Northumberland , in whose esteem he stoodj generally speaking , very high ; and even in those minds where a high degree of bigotry and prejudice prevailed * at his
friendly and winning address their animosity died away , and the smile of good-nature succeeded the lowering gloom of distrust and disaffection . It would be manifesting an undue degree of partiality to say ^ that Dr . Priestley had no infirmities ; but of all men with whom I have been acquainted , he was the
best - He was fully conscious of his own imperfections ^ and therefore daily laboured after further attainments of moral excellence , keeping Jesus his Lord and Master in view , as his true and most complete pattern . Though a eracified man , be was not ashamed of being his disciple ; confident that the more exalted he should find him in that new and better life , the more
cause he should have to rejoice , having this hope and assurance , that he should be like him , for he should see him as he is . I have frequently lamented , since ^ that I ever left Northumberland and connections so importantly valuable as those I there enjoyed . But Divine Providence often works by means to us inscrutable , and furthers his own purposes most when
our own wishes seem least consulted . The winter having passed away and April arrived , I made preparation to leave the town , but had much difficulty to leave my revered friends , and esper cially Mr . Joseph Priestley , who made use of every motive to induce my continuance that his generous mind could suggest . My plan was formed , and my resolution fixed . 1 accordingly settled my accounts with him , and engaged my passage with a boat-master to Middletown , 64 miles from Northumberland .
The precise day of ovir departure I do not recollect ^ but at ten o ' clock at night we took our leave of the servants , who wept at our separation , and , with many of the kind inhabitants *
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624 Particulars of Dr . Priestley .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 624, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/8/
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