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» ot appeared in the line of British , nor of European Princes , and long , ip . all probability ,, very long , will it be , ere there will be found in the roll of British statesmen , an equal to hifq whose loss afflicts us on the prer sent occasion . The memory , incjeed of these illustrious characters survives for the instruction of posterity , but their virtue and their wisdom camiot be communicated tonheir successors ; andwheir , after alonginterval , men shall arise with equal talents and equal moral worth , they will have to act , in sojure measure , as if th , ey were the first . benefactors
of their species , —they will have to combat a ^ ew difficulties which , their distant predecessors have overcome—when they have reached their point of perfection they will fall—and the world will wait for ages for the re-app ^ arance of similar excellence and greatness . The human race is perpetual , but the existence of minds in such a degree of perfection is occasional , rare , and wonderful . ' < In the last place ; The mortality and death" of the greatest and th ^ i best of men . whilst it serves to draw off our confidence from frumaii
nature , in its present frail and imperfect state , naturally inspires us with the hope and desire of immortality . As we follow the ashes of a great aud good man to his ' sepulchral home ^ wEo can forbear thus to inquire—thus to reason : * Is so much talept extinguished , never to be relighted ? so much knowledge buried ., never to be recovered ? so much virtue sunk , never to rise again ? The order of nature , the character of the God of nature forbids the melancholy sentimetst . In a world , so-harmonious and orderly as this , mental maturity cannot be the signal for decay , an approach to perfection cannot be a qualification for a tendency to destruction ! As well might we conclude that , wheji summer yields to the empire of winter , it has abdicated aii dominion over the earth for ever ; or that when the orb of day quits our hemis * phere , he will never re-appear . " * ' '
The sermon- is published , we are told in the preface , by tft § unanimous request of the congregation which heard it ; and cc the design of its publication is tp testify , on their part ^ their admiration of Mr ? Fox ' s character as a statesman , and their deep and poignant regret at his loss /'
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At Richmond in Surrey , op the 26 th ult . in the f ^ th year of his age , the Rev . THOMAS WAKEFlliLD , B . A . thirty years minister of that Parish , cider brother of the late Rev . Gilbert Wakefie ^ d , "with whom he maintained a uniform and reciprocal attachment . The sufferings of that excellent man uncter a political persecution , -which will render Pitt an il u f . ious name among apostate reformers , he deeply regrettecj and tenderly alleviated . To his memory he erected a mural monument in the church of Richmond on which he has recorded his brothers ill-requited virtues and his own fraternal affection . To t&e surviving family he proved himself a second lather .
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Mr . Thomas Waken * eld was , we he * lieve , originally designed for trade , yet tie very soon exchanged the counting Imuse for the University . That he was not a more lounger in his college his conversation , as well as his public discour cs , sufficiently testified , though he was free from the ^ li g htest afFectation of literary attainments . On ^ Jie exter ^ to which in his riper years he approved or rejected the doctrines of that church , to whose ritual he allowed him , elf ta conform , we are unable to decide . As to that full reliance on the all-sufficient merits of a crucified R : edieemer , ' * which ha >• been ascribed to him in an > eloquent elogiuni , we are persuaded that in his mind , it must have been some ?*
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/48/
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