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his friends that in all his letters he carefully concealed his complaints till this period ^ when , in a letter dated Clifton , April the 18 th , to the writer of this memoir , he communicated the circumstances just related . On the 15 th May he informed him also of his arrival at home , and that he found at
gradual amendment in his health : « ' I am , says he , advised to exercise on horseback , whibt | I have taken the last two days , and , thank God , feel myself considerably better / ' On the 15 th
June he says , I thank God my health is much amended ^ but like the friend you mention , I must be very careful what food I swallow / ' It is the opinion of his family that he thought himself better than he really was , but his cheerfulness and good spirits never failed him . On the Tth July a letter written for
him by Mrs . Evanson , to which he was only able to sign his name ( for the last time ) gave the melancholy account of a slight paralytic stroke , which had nearly deprived him of the use of his right hand ; this was only the further progress of the paralysis in his throat and stomach , which gradually increased
till he lost the use of his right side ; from this time the impediment in his swallow increased , and he wasted and grew weaker every day , though without any other bodily pain than such as results from debility ; nor was there during his whole
illness the least apparent diminution of his cheerfulness or the clearness of his intellect ; and as a proof of it , it was during this illness that he wrote an answer to the Bishop of Gloucester ' s Thoughts on the Trinity , which * he with some humour enfitled , Second Thoughts on the Trinity , recommended to the Right Rev . the Bishop of Gloucester * .
He continued growing weaker till the 24 th September , when with the greatest fortitude and most perfect composure , from the reflection on a life spent in the uniform endeavour to obey the commands and follow the example of his Great Master , he laid himself down to rest , and so composed was his sleep , that about five o ' clock in the morning he had breathed his last some minutes before it was perceived by his mournfully attending
friends . With talents and energy of mind , capable of great attainments in the wide range of science and learning , he applied to
the acquisition of them with indefatigable diligence during the course ofHhis academical studies . When he undertook the office of a Christian minister he considered it an indispensable
* So clear were his intellects to the very last > that he corrected the proof sheets of the second edition of the Dissonance , which he had prepared and sent to the printer's about a month before , till within two days of his dissolution !; this ha * been since published , and it will be found to contain many alterations and i * n ~ pi o veuient s .
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60 JRev . Edward Evanson , A . M .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/4/
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