A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon].

  • Samuel Badcock
Date:
[1780]
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Credit: A slight sketch of the controversy between Dr. Priestley and his opponents on the subject of his Disquisitions on matter and spirit / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    page, i engage for nothing more: and if more fhould be expedted, I fhall not be anfwerable for the difappointment of-my readers. I am no difciple of Dr. Prieftley: nor would I infult his underftanding, or violate my own fincerity by clouding his Altar with the incenfe of flattery. I would bear a will- * i ing tribute to his merit:—but with the Ipiric of a man who is not afraid to tell him of his faults. Of his faults and his merit, I pre¬ tend to be no judge, any farther than they are fubmitted to the public eye. I purfue no man to the retreat of private life : tho* if a meddling or malignant temper difpofed me to be a critic in this common but paltry line, r . . / Dr. Prieftley (even in the judgment of his enemies) would be the laft man in the world who need be under any apprehenfion from the