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departments should be kept distinct so as to avoid any interference which might prove detrimental to his ^ views . This
connection , however , was after some years dissolved , without imputation of blame to either partyy and all intercourse and communication entirely ceased .
Dr . Priestley has himself furnished ample evidence in the case , in the account which he has given of his appointment in the Memoirs written by himself / ' ( vol . I . p . 71 . ) where he says , with that truth and simplicity which formed ^ a pre-eminent feature of his
character , < I had been recommended to Lord Shelburneby Dr . Price as a person qualified to be a literary companion to him . In this situation , my family being at Calne , in Wiltshire , near to His
lordship ' s seat , at Bow wood , I continued seven years , spending the summer with his family and a great part of the winter in his lordship ' s house in London . My
office was nominally that of Librarian , but I had little employment as such besides arranging his books , taking a catalogue of them and of his manuscripts , which are numerous , and making an index to his collection of private papers . " And again , ( p . 77 ) " In Lord Shelburne ' s family was Lady Arabella Denny , who is
well known by her extensive charities . She is a woman of good understanding and great piety . She had the care of his lordship ' s two sons until they came under
the care of ]> lr . Jervis , who was their tutor during my continuance in the family : " and it may be added for about three years afterwards . u His lordship ' s younger son , who died suddenly , had made
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astonishing attainments both in knowledge and piety , while very young , far beyond any thing that I had an opportunity of observing in my life . ' ' I remain , Sir , Your obedient servant , VERITAS .
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Mr . Palmer on the Religious Principles of Mr . Howard . Hackney , Jan , 8 , 1811 * Sir , Your leaders are greatly obliged to your correspondent N . L . T « for rhe fniprtainment he has
afforded them by the extract given ia your , last number ( vol . v . p . 574 . ) from Clark ' s Travels , respecting the death and funeral of the great philanthropist , John
Howard . I , as an individual , was highly gratified by it , in consequence of my long and intimate acquaintance with that excellent man . But it was not without
much surprise ^ and indeed some degree of indignation , that I read , at the close of the quotation , the followi ng severe and groundless reflection upon the religious priru ciples of my friend , in connexion with his objection against being buried according to the rites of
the Greek church . — 4 i Howard , amidst his benevolent pursuits , had perhaps never pushed his
religious inquiries beyond the Assembly ' s Catechism , all the priest and alt the nurse had taught . Such an orthodox protestant , however he might have adopted the prayer— Thrice holy , &c . c even celebrate tfie virgin who
c perfect purity brought forth c God *—would yet be scandalized by the expectation of a priest ' s incensing his corpse , and commending his soul to the inte ' ees-
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Jtfr . Palmer on the Religious Principles of Mr . Howard . 19
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/19/
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