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    affecting scenes a man of feeling can * witness ; it ^ seldom fai ls to cause the tear of sympathy to steal down the cheek of the spectators .

    It certainly required all the energy and undeviating perseverance of Dr . Hawes , to place this Institution in opposition to so many difficulties , in that state of respectability and permanence in which he has left it ; and to which such a cause is justly entitled .

    To the same zeal for saving the lives of his fellow creatures , must we attribute his uniform attention to the establishment of similar societies in numerous towns of the

    united kingdom ; and in various parts of Europe , America and India . No man could be more alive to distress of every kind than Dr . Hawes ; and to a great variety of which he was a constant witness

    in his attendance on the poor , as physician of the London and Surry Dispensaries- ^ n many cases he foufnd them more in want of nourishment than medicine ; he would afford them the means

    of procuring this nourishment , after having told them what they should take and hasten from them to prevent their overwhelming hirn

    with their gratitude . Instances too have frequently occurred of his overtaking persons in the street , whom he knew to be in great want , of his taking his hand from his

    pocket and putting the means of relief into their hand and passing quickly oil . Tbe ' instances of his benevolence , humanity , and real charity must h ^ ve bee n very numerous ; for rn < iny of those which are known , have been incidently discovered . It ; was truely said of

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    him in the JVIornmg Chronicle , a day or two after his death , that he was a man of whom it may , with the greatest truth be asserted , that his only failings arose from an overflow of the milk of

    human kindness : t } iat hev was open and unsuspecting as noonday : that his heart was always in his hand and his benevolence unbounded : and that the tears and regrets of thousands would follow him to the grave , with the

    consolatory reflexion that he is gone to receive the reward of a well spent , active , useful ' and virtuous life . As a friend he was sincere and without the least reserve . In all his transactions he

    was as guileless as a child . To his family he was the affectionate friend and indulgent father ? and by whom he was most deservedly and tenderly beloved . His highest

    gratification was to see tho ^ c around him happy , and to contribute by every means in his power to promote their pleasures and comfort . Mis manners were kind

    and conciliating- His temper frank , generous , and uncommonly cheerful . _ On the evening of Sunday , Nov . 6 \ he was attacked with .

    a very , painful disease , whiclu though the skill and attention oi Messrs . Cline and Addington succeeded in mitigating , they could not remove . During this severe

    illness , his patience , composure anil resignation were truly exemplary . The activity of his mind continued with him tp the last ; and to the last moment he was

    sensible . On Monday morning , of Dec . 5 , he was at six o ' clock , remarking on something that was passing ; at a quarter past six .

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    Memoir of Dr . IIaxves . 705

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/13/