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with a resignation which never uttered a sigh nor a murmur , he was released from the labours and vicissitudes of mortality . Such was the life of Dr . Price , a
man who , by the estimation of all impartial judges , holds a very high rank in the Temple of Fame , for intellectual , moral and religious excellence * and who claims the admiration and gratitude of posterity for his services to his fellow-creatures ! It is at
once extremely animating and useful to trace his progress from the mountain ^ of Wales to the scene of his future labours and eminence $ to accompany the diligent , modest , timid and orphan \ outh through the studies
connexions and increasing reputation of his manhood and his age ; to behold him emerging from the comparative obscurity of a Dissentin-g Academy , and from the solitude which lie loved , to no common celebrity in the learned , the political and the
religious world . Scarcely less pleasing is it to mark the effect of his early reading and of the events of his younger life on his pursuits , opinio > ns and character . Dr . Price , without doubt , had the qualities of true genius , by which we mean a very distinguished share of mental talent . But the affections of his heart , directed and governed by pure religion , concurred with his exceedingly superior abilities in making him really great : and , whatever one class of persons
may think as to the soundness of his politics , the accuracy of his calculations or the truth of his predictions , there cannot now , we presume , be any difference of sentiment in regard to the sincerity , the disinterestedness and the patriotism of his motives .
This being our view of the illustrious man whose life is recorded in these Memoirs , we shall proceed , with all the care and correctness in our power , to ascertain the merits , and to point out the defects and faults of the volume before us : we shall
then extract from it some curious anecdotes and facts , and shall finally animadvert on a few passages in particular . N .
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Unitarian Society for promoting ' Christian Knowledge , at Essex Street Chapel , on Thursday , March 31 , 1814 , in commemoration of the Repeal of the Penal Laws against the Impugners of the Doctrine of the Trinity . To which is annexed
an Appendix , containing a Summary Review of a Publication of the Lord Bishop of St . David ' s , entitled " A Brief Memorial , on the Repeal of the 9 and 10 William Til ,, &C . By Thomas Belsham , Minister of the Chapel . 8 vo . pp . 164 . Printed for the Unitarian Society , and sold by Johnson and Co . and D . Eaton ,
1814 . OF this animated and interesting sermon we have already given a brief account . [ ix . 251 . ] It is an eloquent exposition , illustrated "b y a variety of details , of Mr . Belsham ' s well-known cheerful views of the
progressive state of the world , as to knowledge , truth and virtue . The preacher adopts the exclamation of " an eloquent writer , * I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and say it is all a desert / " *
Happy they , who like him , are able from the strength of their minds , the purity of their characters and the steadiness of their piety , to see that God is good , to behold all men and all things in connexion with God , and to trace the march of the scheme of Divine
Providence , notwithstanding temporary evils , " from good to better , and better thence again , and better still m infinite progression . " The Appendix may be considered as a separate publication . It is a spirited
and masterly reply to a weak and intolerant pamphlet of the Bishop of St . David ' s , who though lie had not the courage to oppose , has not been ashamed of the bigotry and folly of
lamenting , the repeal of the penal statutes against the impugners of the doctrine of the Trinity . Nay , the Bishop goes farther , and contends not only that the repeal ought not to have taken place , but also that the old law
* P . 29 . Mr . BeJsham attributes the exclamation to Mr . Wilberforce . It bc ' longs however to another eloquent , am very different writer—Sterne . The passage is in " The Sentimental Journey , ana is there , as follows : " I pity the man wno can travel from Dan to Beersbeta and ciy , ' tis all barren . "
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5 O& Review . —~ Belshani $ Reply to Burgess .
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Art . II . —r-Thc Progress of Intellectual , Moral ami Religious Improvement , dieting the present Reign , represented xn a Discourse , delivered before the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/44/
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