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Memoir of the JRcc. Samuel Stubbs. 323
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Memoir Of Tie Rev. §Amuel Stubbs,.; Birm...
e $ fKfttecl # & t | should offer some cbarapter pf the 4 e ceascd , and both the shore I had in his
education and the intimate acquaintance I h ^ d vv i ih him , would qualify me to enlarge on this head , in order to raise a laudable emu . lajtipA in the breasts of those that
survive : but by reason of his intellectual accomplishments , his va $ t enjdition acquired by great reading and study , furnish out subjects of which a common
auditory cannot be supposed to be judges ; and , perhaps , that which did him so much honour in this respect , might be a disadvantage to his public performances , as it rendered him not so popular : I shall at present drop any further account of them , and leave his
own works to praise him in the gates , if his surviving friends think fit to publish some o , f them . €€ But with regard to his moral
qualifications , his great modesty and humility , his unaffected piety and devotion , and entire abstractedness from the things of this world—I shall leave them who knew his conversation and
manners of life , in these and other respects , to copy so fair a pattern , while they lament the loss of the original . It is sufficient for
me tp observe , that his flower was ve . fr agrant * always < 1 iffusing the Ofloroys , precious perfumes of that paradise , into which it is now transplanted . ?*
V- F ,, while the pen is in my hand , will not be displeased with my contracting a , mistake , and supplying an omission in his communications , which form an
interesting article in your Repository for last April . He has affixed an asterisk , denoting his death , to the name of Mr- William Howell . of Swansea :
Memoir Of Tie Rev. §Amuel Stubbs,.; Birm...
whereas ( h ^ . . gentleman , whom . I have a sincere pleasure in cl * i ?& in £ with my esteemed and cordial friends , is actually alive and in the enjoyment of better health than when about Christmas last
he was induced by the state of his health and spirits to resign bis pastoral connection . It appears to have escaped the knowledge of V . F . that Mr . Philip Taylor , No * 02 , besides the Sermon and Catechism , which he
mentions , published also , at Dublin , 4 < A Funeral Sermon , preached the I 2 ih of March , 1786 , the deatb of the Rev . Samuel Thomas , a pastor of the dissenting congregation in Eustace Street /* in that city , from Job iv . 21 ,
who had filled that office nineteen years ; and had , previously to his election , been for some years minister of a dissenting congregation atYeovil , in' Somersetshire . Presuming that the above pieces of information , though not of the first importance , may be acceptable to many of your readers , I
otter them for a place in your Repository ; and remain with great regard , Your ' s , JOSHUA TOULMIN . P . S . While friendship drops the tear of sorrow on the obituary of a beloved and highly esteemed friend and companion of my aca _ demica ) studies ; on a class-fellow
endeared , from the first moment oF our acquaintance , to him who writes these lines , by the dispositions and excellencies of character which the pen of your correspondents J . D . and J . T . has described , permit me to avail myself of this opportunity to offer them my cordial thanks for this tribute of respect to the friend or my ymith and of my declining years , though a great distance of
Memoir Of The Jrcc. Samuel Stubbs. 323
Memoir of the JRcc . Samuel Stubbs . 323
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/3/
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