A person must be in my situation ... to judge of my feelings when
I receive new books.
Strangely enough a _box_ of books was sent him to Carlisle (Pa.) and had
been there for two years before he learned of it.
Perhaps a word more may be allowed in regard to the paper on
_Pestilential Disorders_ by Noah Webster. This was the lexicographer.
Priestley thought the work curious and important, but the philosophy in
it wild and absurd in the extreme. And of Rush he asks--
Pray is he (Webster) a believer in revelation or not? I find
several atheists catch at everything favourable to the doctrine of
_equivocal generation_; but it must be reprobated by all who are
not.