Note 30 — A CONTINUATION OF THE MEMOIRS OF Dr. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY. [Written by his Son Joseph Priestley.]
Reading edition
At a dinner of all the Prebendaries of a cathedral church, the conversation turning on the riots in Birmingham, and on a clergyman having said that if I were mounted on a pile of my publications, he would set fire to them, and burn me alive, they all declared that they would be ready to do the same.