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vpir cur la terra une nation vraiment iibFe « t viv ^ nt sans guerre . " P . 74 . Quarrel between Home Tooke and Lord Shelburne . 4 i A small pamphlet was written under the title of Facts addressed to Che Subjects of Great Britain and Ireland : the financial
part of which had heeD composed by Dr . Price , the other parts principally by Mr . Home Tooke . When this pamphlet was ready for publication , Lord Shelburne objecting to some passages of it wished the whole to be . suppressed . But Mr . Tooke
thought differently on the occasion , and caused it immediately to be published in direct opposition to his Lordship ' s wishes . This necessarily produced a quarrel between them , which admitted of no reconciliation during the remainder of their lives . " Pp .
83 , 84 . Letter from for . Franklin to Dr . jPricc * " Passy , June 13 , 1782 . " Dear Sir , w congratulate you on the late revolution in your public affairs . Much good
may arise vfroin it , though possibly not all that good men and . even the new ministers themselves may have wished or expected . The change , however , in the sentiments of the nation , in which I see evident effects of your writings with those of our deceased friend Mr . Burgh , and others of our valuable club , should encourage you to proceed . The ancient Roman and Greek
orators . could only speak to the number of citizens capable of being assembled within the reach of their voice . Their writings tad little effect , because the bulk of lie people could not read . —Now by the press we can speak to nations ; an-d good books and well-written pamphlets , have great and general influence . The facility with which
the same truths may be repeatedly enforced by placing them daily in different lights in news-papers , which are every where read , gives a great chance of establishing them . A . D ( J we now iind that it is not only right to strike while the iion is hot ljut tljat it may be very practicable to lie . at it by continually striking "—Pp . 9 . 5 , 96 .
Extract from one of Di \ Rush ?? letters to Dr . Price : " Philadelphia . u We have changed our forms of government but it renaains yet to effect a revolution in our principles , opinions and manners , so as to accommodate them to the ^ oveiinnerit we have adopted . —This is the
most difficult part of the business of the patriots of our country . —It requires more wisdom and fortitude than to expel or to reduce armies into captivity . — -I wish to see this idea inculcated by your pen . —Call upon the rulers of our country to lay the foundation of their empire in knowledge a /» w ^ H ay ? irtue" &c . P . 104 ,
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Letter from Dr . Price to Mr . Lind ^ sey : * " May 4 th , 1790 u Dear Mr . Lindsey , " I cannot avoid writing to you to return my best thanks for your second address and for the very kind notice you have taken of me in it , Your favourable opinion can .
not but g-jve me particular pleasure and I hope I shall never lose it . —I am afraid however , that I shall be in danger of this ' wheu I tell you , that , after reading youj book carefully , I remain unconvinced of the doctrine of the simple humanity of Christ . This must , I doubt , appear to you a striking kind of obstinacy , for I find you think that you have infallibly settled this
point ; and you sometimes use expressions which imply that no serious searcher after truth , who takes his opinion from the Bible and is of a sound understanding , can em . brace a different doctrine . But I know your candour ; and you will , I doubt not consider in my favour that this is a time of life in which we are under the necessity of making up our minds ; and it is my comfort that whether I have done this on
the side of tru th or error , I shall be equatlj accepted , provided I have been serious , honest and diligent in my inquiries . I wish you , dear Sir , all happiness , and that
the remainder of your useful and valuable life may be crowned with a constant increase of the enjojnieuts inseparable fro * exemplary integrity . " I eja npto&t affectionately yours , « R . Price . "
Pp . Ill , 112 , note The Sinking Fujid , Dr . Price and Mr . Pitt : " The friends of Dr . Price have reasop to complain that , after enduring so mueh obloquy and abuse from his stupid opponents when he first proposed such a measure , and after a patient perseverance for
fourteen years , having succeeded at last in convincing * Government of the necessity of it , he should be deprived of the meagre boon of being * noticed amidst the hig-h-sounding compliments which the minister bestowed upon himself in proposing" the measure to Parliament . When he boasted of bavin ? raised a pillar to public credit , it would have been as well if he had proposed to
have Dr . Price ' s name inscribed with hm own on the pedestal : hut subsequent « ven (* have proved that these names would have been ill associated on the same column . — Dr . Price ' s plans were formed for tb « |>» r pose of relieving the nation from it * kmtUens . They wer ^ never designed for tlif purpose of forcing * public credit to llf utmost limits , or for being : converted into instruments for increasing * the i » a $ s o » tM * Betehm " * Memoirs of Un ^ h pp . 205—210 .
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% && Mevietto . — Morgans fJfe of Price .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1815, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1764/page/50/
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