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a religious cast , called the Library , The society of his friends ( amongst whom his inexhaustible fund of genuine anecdote , his wit , his peculiarly happy mode of condensing and expressing striking sentiments could not faiL to make him
a most welcome guest ) filled up some portion of his leisure . His library , reflections upon the pas - sing scenes of the world , the pleasing office of ministering to the wants and cheering the solitude of his nearest connection , plans for the welfare and happiness of other
relatives , acts of charity of various kinds , for the most part performed in secret , occasional visits to his oldest friends , the occupation of his garden , were now his principal objects . How various his employments whom the world
Calls idle , and who justly in return Esteems that busy world an idler too . Cowper .
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To the Editor of t / ie Monthly Repository * ±
Hackney Road , Dec . ^ 180 p « SIR , When I sent you the remarks on the " Indestructibility of
Matter , " which were printed in the Monthly Repository for January last , I had no idea that any Christian would haVe objected to the inference which I drew from the
facts then adduced , much loss did I imagine that there was any danger 6 f involving myself in a controversy for which my situation in life affords but little leisure , other * wise-I * am sure I should never have had the temerity to * have said a single word upou the subject ; but
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At length , having survived beyond the ordinary period of the life of man , he bade the world adieu with a dignity and tranquil * lity worthy of himself . He died
at his house in Walthamstow , OcU 17 , 1809 , in the 7 8 tli , year of his age . His end was preceded by extreme debility . ' * Yet * happy was his lot in this respect , ( to make use of his own words in the
Oration on the death of Dr . Ben * son ) , that he dicLnot linger on the bed of sickness under tormenting pains ,- he was not bereft of those faculties which he had exerted for
the benefit of mankind , he did not live to despair of the goodness of that Being to whose service he had been dedicated from his
earliest youth , but in peace and composure he resigned his spirit into the hands of him who gave it . "
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as your correspondent G , page 598 of the last Repository seems entirely to have mistaken my views in submitting those remarks to the
consideration of the public , I feel myself under the necessity of defending those positions , and shall be much obliged if y , ou will allow me a page , or two of your next number for that purpose .
Your correspondent writes as though the chemical facts which I had adduced were brought forward as so many direct proofs of the certainty of the resurrection of man , whereas I designed to have been understood that what I ad *
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- Mr . Parkes on Matter and Min d * . - ¥$ &'
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MR . PARKES OK MATTER AND MIND . /^! CU
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 711, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/5/
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