OF THE LIFE OF THE REV. RICHARD PRICE, D.D. F.R.S. BY WILLIAM MORGAN, F.R.S. London: PRINTED FOR R. HUNTER, SUCCESSOR TO J. JOHNSON, AND R. REES, NO. 62, PALL MALL. 1815. PREFACE. IN writing the following Memoirs my chief design has been to give such a general account of Dr. Price as should lead the reader to form a right judgement of his principles and character.I have, therefore, confined myself to the more important parts of his life, without entering into minute details of little consequence, which at this distant period could have no effect in rendering the work either more useful or interesting: -and in order to be as concise as possible, I have been very sparing in the use of his private correspondence;-nor should I indeed, under any circumstances, have thought myself justified in gratifying an idle curiosity by the indiscriminate publication of letters which had been written in the confidence of private friendship. It may possibly appear strange that so many years should have been suffered to pass away before any of the nearest friends or relatives of Dr. Price should have paid the tribute due to his memory of giving some account of his life. This arose in the first instance from the premature death of my brother George Morgan, who had undertaken to write a very circumstantial history of his uncle's life, and had made a considerable progress in it, when, towards the close of the year 1798, a fatal disorder put a final period to this and all his other pursuits. |