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THTl , SAY PAPfittS .
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No . X . Mr . Say to Mrs * Say . Xetter I . [ Mr . Say married Miss Sarah Hamby * n condition that she should not leave her uncle Nat . Carter of Yarmouth * ( whose house she kept ) as long as he lived . Mr . Say being minister of
Lowcstoft , used generally to walk from Yarmouth thither every Thursday and stay till the Monday following . To this circumstance , the following letter written by Mr . Say , at Lowest oft , to Mrs . Say , at Yarmouth , refers ; it was indited about a year after marriage . S . S , T . J
L > " ft , Thursday Evening My Dearest , My walk had been very pleasant this evening if I had not left y ° , with a regrett which hung about me a good part of the way ; and happening after I came home upon the account wch . Ovid gives
of the last parting of his wife and himself when he was suddenly fprced away from her into perpetual £ xile , the manner in w . y ° . took y . leave ofmc , a few hours before , made me so sensible of the tenderness and anxiety of a faithful and affectionate wife upon so sad an occasion , that 1 could not forbear
mingling my tears with those of my author . But shall I beg my dearest not to indulge so immoderate an affection , and smcH a profusion of grief upon occasions w . do not deserve it . Send me home rather to my studies and peculiar charge , shall 1 say , as a Heathen Andromache arm'd and inspired her Hector to the
battle f or as a wife instructed by nobler and diviner principles should animate her husband to tread the path to true virtue and glory ; and as one that is willing to enjoy him long with her on ' earth , by giving him up at the proper seasons , to his God and his duties , and yet more to enjoy him for ever in heaven , and to share with him the fruit of those labours and
that fidelity in the discharge of the service allotted to him , to wch . she has been rcadie to encourage and dismiss him , at * he expence of her own private and greatest satisfactions ? The time I mean may come , when we ' shall be continued the longer together in a more uninterrupted and endearing society in this worl . d , a society endeared the more by the present frequent but short separations . But if
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not , we arc sure we cannot exercise the least act of sclf-denyal for any good and valuable purposes in the view of pleading and serving Cod and his Christ , without a compensation worthy of Gad and of Christ to give us . Cease therefore my dearest to hang about me , t » melt . down my best and firmest resolutions , to soften me into woman , and fill me with uneasie and painful reflections upon the manner in wch my dearest bears the hour of parting or the days of
absence . —— * * * • Thine sincerely and affection 1 y . S . SAY
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i The same to the same . 1-ettcr II . £ -= f *» 3 uly * 5 * & X 7 * o . . tyfy Dearest , ***** About one [ this morning , ] I wa » waked by some noises w threw me into a philosophical speculation about the effects of all great revolutions in the spate of the weather , into which I imagined i might resolve many accounts of haunted houses and diabolical noises .
Every one observes the sounds weh proceed from several housholrf utensils of brass and iron as they pass from the extreams of heat and cold , the crackling of grates and the ringing of warming pans . I have lately heard so great a bounce from a coal cradle heated to
extremity after many years 'of disuse , as surprized the whole circle round it . The toad w bursted w such a noise in the story t > £ witchcraft relating to the same hour , could net have broke with a louder explosion . 1 * hi $ would have been imputed to extraordinary bursts of some chesnuts , vv not long before they had
been roasting under the fire , had it not been repeated several times upon the like extremity of heat , but w you will say is all this to the effects of the change of weather ; this is what I am coining to . I say that the violent and cxtream
contraction or distent ion of plank or timber , and especially any large compages of plank , or contignation of timber by extremity of heat or / drought , succeeding extremity of cold and mpisturc , after it ha # overcome the resistance it met with in the beginning of its contractions and distentions is sufficient to produce sounds in wainscot and shake *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/8/
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