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Political Philosophy by Mr . Le Grice . cc As far as these , " says Mr . Meadley , cc which are faithfully executed , contribute to the
information of those persons , only , who have not leisure to peruse the originals , or who having perused them , wish to refer occasionally to their substance , without the
connected illustrations , they are of unquestionable utility . The only fear is , lest they should ever lead to a neglect of the originals , or encourage habits of superficial reading . "
Dr . Paley ' s end was now rapidly approaching , but he had the satisfaction of witnessing the extensive circulation and popujarity of his writings among his contemporaries . He kept his .
annual residence at Lincoln in 1805 , and returned to Bishop Wear - mouth about the beginning of May ; soon after his arrival he experienced a most violent attack , in which the usual remedies were
fotjnd to be ineffectual , and he soon sunk under the accumulated influence of debility and disease . * Perhaps no man" says his biographer , " ever preserved greater sel £ . possession and composure , during the concluding scene . The
evening of his life was clouded with no unpleasing recollections , no vain anxieties , no fond regrets : he had enjoyed the blessings of this world with satisfaction ; and he relied for future happiness on | he promises of that divine revelation , the truth of which he had
so strenuously laboured to evince . He consequently met the approach \ of death with firmness , comforted his afflicted , family with
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the consolations of religion , and late on the evening of Saturday , May 25 th , 1805 , he tranquilly breathed his last . " We have tiius given an outline of the life and labours of Dr .
Paley , without going into minutiae ; nor have we thought it necessary to particularize all his smaller works , chusing rather to refer our readers to Mr . Meadley ' s Memoirs : from that work we shall
take the character drawn by the author , in preference to what he has recorded of the opinions of others , from whom , in the course of his enquiries , he received liberal communications .
The character of Dr . Paley , can never be j ust'ly estimated from his public exertions alone ; fox he appeared at all times , with
still greater advantage in the intercourse of private life * He was a good husband , an affectionate father , an indulgent master and a faithful friend .
He was ready on all occasions to promote the general interests of society , or to accommodate his more immediate neighbours with any civilities or kind offices in his power . Though economical from
principle as well as habit , he was liberal and even generous in all his pecuniary transactions with others . He was invariably more highly esteemed and beloved , in proportion as he was better known ,
for he had none o ( those seeming virtues which dazzle only at d distance , but which shrink from ^ more accurate examination ; he . acted on no false pretences , and assumed no disguise . "
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Memoirs of the Rev " . William Paley , D . D . 183
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 183, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/7/
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