of music, and, with the assistance of the Rev. Dr. Laing, had superintended the building an organ for himself. In one of our author's letters, 8th June, 1791, is the following passage:
"The organ of Durham cathedral was too much for my feelings; for it brought too powerfully to my remembrance another organ, much smaller, indeed, but more interesting, which I can never hear any more."
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See, too, Beattie's letter to Blacklock, p. xv. of this memoir.
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Roger Bacon, the father of experimental philosophy. He flourished in the thirteenth century.
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Hobbes was a great smoker, and wrote what some have been pleased to call a Translation of Homer.
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He taught that the external universe has no existence, but an ideal one, in the mind (or
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Private vices public benefits.
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Electrical batteries.
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Bred a printer. This was written long before Dr. Franklin's death.
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Dr. L., Bp. of C., is probably the person here alluded to. He was a zealous materialist.
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He resolved Perception and Thinking into
