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years , found a retreat from clamour and contest . € C It stanads ia a very romantic situation , in a fine fruitful vale , richly wooded with a variety of trees and shrubs on either side the slopes which bound its extent , and patched with htfge rocks , which project through the foliage from the lofty brow of the cliffs . In
the garden is an old summer-house , almost covered with ivy , in which he studied , A small stone , placed therein , is inscribed to his memory in the following words : Sacred to the memory of the celebrated James Foster , D . D . who , in this humble and retired mansion , secluded from the fury of bigots and the cares of a busy world , spent several years , and composed many of those excellent Discourses on Natural Religion
and Social Virtue ( with the annexed Offices of Devotion ) which have been read with universal admiration during the last and presenti ages ; and which , while they exhibit to posterity the most beautiful display of the divine attributes , and important duties t > fhtitman life , will immortalize the name and memory of their learned--and pious author */ " . . .. . . . - ; ;• ¦¦ :- ! ¦ :: •• ' - / . : ¦ . ¦ . . . JvT .
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< c Memoirs" t > f Pritstley — Beat tie — Toplady . 65
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u MEMOIRS *' . OF PR . PRIESTLEY—BEATTIE—TOPLADY . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . ¦ ' ¦
Sir , ^ ¦ - ' ' ¦ " ' . ¦ " - ¦¦ * ¦ ¦ •• ' ' From the regard which I have always borne to the character and writings of I ) r . Priestley , I never could look into his 4 C Examination of Reid ^ Beatlie , and , Oswald ^ ' e ^ pepially the Dedication of tli ^ t wo rk , without regret . The Scotch ^ Doctors aTe there f ajrraigned with a solemnity rather ludicrous , considering that they , are only charged with metaphysical 4 e | inquency . Injustice to the author , it should be added , > th ^ t ; in his Meihoiys ( p . T 8 ) he speaks of the cc Examination' ? as € C written in a " manner he did not entirely approve ; " I wi $ h he had expressed in still slrofager terms his disapprobation of a style of writing from wjiich he was , I think , in general ^ Remarkably free , for an author so often involved in controversy . I was ledTto these boservations by reading the interesting volume 9 f X > r ^ Priestley ' s Memoirs , &c ^ where his learned
• Collinsoi ' s History of Somersetshire , ' * Vol . II . p / 44 . 9 , 450 . N . B . —The preceding Memoir , where other authorities arc not quoted , indrawn up from the materials furnished by "Dr . Fleming ' s and Mr . Bulklcy ' s Sermons on the Death of J&r . Foster . _ i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1807, page 65, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2377/page/9/
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