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]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![s [ 51 ] ✓ ( Strengthened, and he will with mingled affection and refpedt fix his eyes on that object whofe every look and word Teem to fpeak an eternal farewell. Let us attend as naturalifts the laid moments ot one of our fellow-morals, and collect from our oh- fervation made at that awful period, what is the probability of the foul’s furviving the body after a feparation hath taken place. T he firft attacK 01 ficknefs frequently debilitates its powers. The me¬ mory fails. The powers of difcernment are deuioy- ed. Manly refolution links into abjedt timidity , and the quickeft perceptions are loft in abfolute in¬ difference. The eyes are vacant and liftlefs. The words interrupted by incapacity, or fcattered by de- 'lirium. The difeafe increafes, and every faculty finks with the body. Tho’ indeed the principle of intelligence feems at times to roufe with renewed vigour, and difplay marks of the quickeft difcern¬ ment; tho’ the pride of philofophy might be ready to think that the light which fometimes breaks in on the departing fpirit with peculiar radiance is but the diftant glance of an eternal day :-the “effulgence of the bright offence increate,” and communicated to the foul as to fome congenial principle to infpke it with fentiment* and anticipations worthy its origin,> and preparatory to its end ;-as if that end were in¬ complete in the prefent cbntracTed fphere or ext - r r- „ tencc](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30372161_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
