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Art . I . — Memoirs of the Life of the Rev . Richard Price , D . D . F . R . S * By William Morgan , F . R . S . London : Printed for Hunter , and for R- Rees . 1815 . 8 vo . pp . 189-THE subject of these Memoirs , occupied so conspicuous , so honourable and so useful a station in
society that strangers may naturally wonder at the interval between his death and the appearance of the present volume . That " so many years ( to use this biographer ' s language )
should have been suffered to pass away before any of the nearest relatives of Dr . Price should have paid the tribute due to his memory of giving some account of his life / ' is a circumstance which seems to call for
an explanation , and which here receives one that , we presume , will , in general , be accepted as satisfactory : u This delay , " says our author , arose in the first instance from the premature death of my brother George Morgan , who
had undertaken to write a very circumstantial history of his uncle ' s life , and had made a considerable progress in it , when , towards the close of the year 1798 , a fatal disorder put a -final period to this and all bis other pursuits .
" The confused state in which his papers were found , and the indistinct short hand in which they were written , * rendered it impossible either to arrange or to understand them properl y 5 and therefore , after many fruitless attempts , I was reluctantly obliged to g * ive up the investigation , and to take upon myself the task of writing * a
new , but more concise account ; " Of the particular qualifications of the gentleman who now conies before the public as Dr . Price ' s biographer , for his undertaking , no doubt can be
entertained among persons in any degree acquainted with his character and situation . We shall lay before our readers a summary of the principal events recorded in his narrative :
Richard Price was born , on the * We cannot refrain from observingthat this is one instance among * many , of the disadvantage of g-entlemen writing * a short hand which their families are not taught to read . Rev .
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23 rd of February , 1723 , in the parish of Langeinor in the count y of Glamorgan . Till the age of eight or ten years , he was educated partly at home and partly by a person in the neigh !
bourhood . Being the youngest son , he was intended for trade : but circumstances arose which prevented this intention from being carried into effect . After having been placed successivel y at three schools , he was
moved , at the age of fifteen , to the Rev . Vavasor Griffith ' s Academy , at Talgarth in Breconshire ; where he was a student at the death of his father , in 175 fl . It appears that his patrimony was very inconsiderable . Rice Price , the father , a Calvinistic
dissenting minister , at Bridgend , in Glamorganshire , singled out one oi his children for his favourite , leaving him almost the whole of his property , and abandoning the rest of his family in a great measure to provide for
themselves . It is not improbable that Richard had displeased him by his want of faith and orthodoxy : for one day finding the boy reading Dr . Clarke ' Sermons , he flung the book in a raure into the fire , with the most
bitter invectives . Young Price , together with his two sisters , now accompanied his mother to a temporary abode in Bridgend , where she died in the beginning of May iu tlie following year . She was a most generous and excellent
woman : and her happy state ofiwinu in the approaches of death , and tin prospect of a better world , impressed her son with lasting admiration , lentil this event , he continued at the academy of Talgarth ; to which pl * he walked over the mountains ol
Brecon , in the severe frost of 1740 ? and it was in his way thither that Ins mind was first engaged in study ing : Butler ' s Analogy , a work with which he was always enamoured , and the sentiments and reasonings in which had evidently some influence on his own .
When he had attained his eig hteenth year , it was determined , in compliance with his own wishes , a » a the advice of his paternal uncle , tnc Rev . Samuel Trice , that be should ot
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u Still pleased to praise , yet not afraid to blame . " Pope .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 504, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/40/
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