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BIOGRAPHIES OF SCIENTIFIC MEN
| 1. | Diaries from 1752. |
| 2. | Several commonplace books containing notes. |
| 3. | Register of philosophical experiments and hints for new ones. |
| 4. | Sermons, prayers, etc. |
| 5. | Notes and a paraphrase on the whole of the New Testament excepting Revelation. |
| 6. | A new translation of the Psalms. |
| 7. | Memoirs of his own life, to be published after his death. |
| 8. | Illustration of Hartley's doctrine of Association of Ideas, and further observations on the human mind. |
Concerning the Priestley riots Gillray[1]produced an etching in which Priestley was grossly lampooned. The sympathy of Priestley and his friends for the French Revolutionists became their greatest crime in the eyes of their enemies, and the dinner on 14th July was ostensibly made the occasion of the anti-Jacobin outbreak. "By far the greatest crime of all which Dr Priestley and the 'Socinians' had committed," says Mr Dent, "was that of sympathizing with the lovers of freedom who had just succeeded in overturning the throne of Louis XVI. in France. This sympathy Gillray, the caricaturist, turned to account in a bitterly hostile and infamously libellous
- ↑ James Gillray (1757-1815) went mad in 1811 chiefly through intemperance, and only had a few subsequent intervals of sanity.
