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ANECT > OT £ 5 OFTHK LATE REV , DR- R . PRICE , EXTRACTED FROM 44 THE LIFE OF DR . STILES , PRESIDENT OF YALE COLLEGE , KOKTH AMERICA , BY THL REV- A HOLMES . M . A . ' *
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444 Anecdotes of the late Rev . Dr . Price .
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his roast beef lie frasted upoh- —« and his favours ' 'he sported . This was a jovial season for honest J . G . At length the day and hour of election arrived , and jovial John was called to give his vote ; when , lo ! to the
astonishment ot the court , John gave his vote in favour of that very candidate , whose bread and cheese he hadrnever tasted , whose ale he had never drank ! Being desired to give his reason for so strange and apparently inconsistent a mode of
acting , he boldly icplied , turning himself round to his brother freemen , on whose side he had just voted— Ci Always quarter upon the enemy Never hurt the man you love I . I remai " n vour
Constant , reader , and An Occasional Correspondent
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^ errriission , tell you a short story . Softie few years ago , in the towu where I last resided in . the country , there was a popular election for one of its municipal officers . The contest was long and spirited , —roast beef , pudding and
porter experienced a most rapid consumption , and no money was spared by the candidates in entertaining * ' the worthy and independent , electors . " All was activity , hilarity and joy . One of these worthy gentlemen , an elector , was
observed to be more than usually Ifappy on this occasion—he enjoyed himself like a true independent freeman during the whole of the week prior to the day of election . And that "he might not act like one of your trimmers and
¦ drivellers , he honourably espoused tlie cause of one-of the candidates only—His ale he drank—
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in your letter , that the honour done me by the College , was granted me at the same time with Gcnend W ,- \ sjiington , has madc a greater impression upon me thaw
can be easily conceived . It is a circumstance that makes the honour disliiuriushing beyjo . nd all that my ambition could reach to . General Washington ' s name must always shine among the first in
the annals of the world . It will go down to all generations universally applauded -and admired : Mine perhaps niay f ollow ; but it will be but a Ifttlc way , and at a vast disiapce . " I \ 2 . & 7 .
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* The president and fellows having conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on the Rev . Dr . Price , [ A . D . 1783 ] in a letter to the President , September 2 * J ?
he acknowledges the honour with the politeness and modesty which characterized thai eminent man . " iC I hope Yale College , over which you preside , will accept my warmest thanks for this
testimony of their approbation * I should be one of the happiest of mankind , could I think ( hat the accoupt given of me so hand * somely , did not -go beyond any ynerit that I < ran justly claim . . The circumstance mentioned
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/16/
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