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Memoir of mrsp^indsey^by ; wtts/bA i PFK ni!JffrSb (aln a Letter to tkc EdiiQr.J ; ^;
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. . , cf . y ^ frfc gth i& \ % m ° f 'wishI were more equal to the tfek ^ flfetted me , of giving , to such of your readers as it may interest ,, jnSftifeidea oftnVcKkiracter of my late higiUy-yaJued friend , Mrs . LINDSEY , of Essex StreeU Frequent personal intercourse in the early part of life , added to a
confidentiaV correspondence fox , more than half a century , may be supposed t «* ' h&ve supplied ample materials , and in fact it has supplied them ; my diffidence arises , not from any defeat of . this-sort , but from the difficulty of selecting from the long series of pasi events that crowd
upon my recollection , a . few of the most striking , and of compressing the relation to be given of them within- the com bass that can be aljLavy ^ d in the Monthly Repository . It would be easy for me to descant upon her talents and her virtues ; the activity , ability arufzeal , with which she
unweariedly pursued whatever might promote the general cause of scriptural truth and' virtue , increase the happiness , or alleviate the distress of suffering individuals * But int . discriminate panegyric is not my objeet ; far would she'herself have been from desiring it ; ** Pray for mo " " was her constant language ,
" that the many failings and defects of a too irritable nervous system , may finally be subdued and corrected *' M , rs , Lindsey ' s father , Mr .
Elswofiihy of Rich ' nioncj ; in Yorkshire , . cfred in c ^ tfy life , leaving a ^?^ dov ^ anat Wo daugh ters ; Han . : ' yi ' ' . LfcSWcU U " ^
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sakpect of this memoir , was bpTrj inAugqst ^ X 74 Q . Elizabeth , tbf tt younger , a most lovely , amiabte ? girly diied at the age of thirteen years , and being ^ twoyears younger than her sister , add'rtearer my ov * dr age ^ she was itty beloved and
favourite companion , and I weft femember hex death at this morneht , as my deepest and earliest rffifclion . Whilst her children were 5 yi ! rf / young , Mrs . Elsworth married thV late very eminent 'Archd&wdbtP
Y ~\ . 1 If ¦ .. --..- ^ v . T Blackburne , * the near neighbotir and friend of my father , who w « S Mr . Lindsey ' s predecessor in th ^ living of Catterick . Hence oUr f early connection , and hence alsoy
probably , in consequence of thfc marriage , those early associations ! were formed in the originally SdrJ ^ JP ' lior mind of Miss Elsworth , whicfi powerfully tended to its expansion and vigour , and to fit her for t&&
important station in after life , shfc was destined so eminently to filhe As it is edifying , where it can be done , to trace the several rninu (^ circumstances which lead , in
their consequences , to events ^ most important to the individual and to others in various wavs con- nected ; proving to demonstration that nothing happens by chance , and thus to obtain a transient
glimpse of that fnore glorious development of divine wisdom and goodness which will be displayed when the grea ^ volume of providence shall be more clearly un- ^ foWed ; 'f- shall mention the fol « lowing apparently trifling anecC dote . T ^ h 0 rx > lived in the neighbour . laibiSP ^ CalterfcKj avery e ^ seU
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Memoir Of Mrsp^Indsey^By ; Wtts/Ba I Pfk Ni!Jffrsb (Aln A Letter To Tkc Ediiqr.J ; ^;
Memoir of mrsp ^ indsey ^ by wtts / bA PFK ni ! JffrSb ( aln a Letter to tkc EdiiQr . J ; ^;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1812, page 109, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1745/page/45/
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