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    our Jesus Christ , that at the last Bay he shall again stand on the earth and that the just and righ- teous man shall receive the re- Compence of the reward . Birmingham > March 12 , 1812 .

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    1812 , March 11 , at Norwich , Mr . John Wiggett Roe , aged 36 * His death was occasioned by the bursting of a tumour , which had formed on one of * the principal arteries A man of more spotless

    character will scarcely be found . Benevolent , cheerful , unassuming in his manners , he was respected by all who knew him ; and by his family and friends he was sincerely and tender ) y beloved . His death has made a void in their circle ,

    which must be long and deeply deplored , and which cannot easily be replaced . It is one of those dispensations of Providence , which teaches us the uncertain tenure by which we hold all our earthly blessings , and which a firm reliance on the infinite wisdom and goodness of our Creator can alone enable to

    u ^ support . was early educated in Calvinistic principles , but he afterwards embraced the great doctrines of the Unity and supremacy of God , and of his infinite goodness and placability . These important doctrines he adopted from sincere conviction , and he

    constantly defended them with firmans . He exemplified their effects in bis Jjfe . The meekness , the unaffected piety , the zeal and the resignation of a true Christian ,

    adorned and dignified his charac - ter ; they were conspicuous in •? ery action of hi » life , they formed the charm * which endeared

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    1 1 1 i him < to his friends , and to all who knew him . Nor will the graces of his mind alone be embajmed in their remembrance . Mr . Roe was gifted by nature with a voice o < f almost unexampled power , sweetness « and extent . To this he

    had added an uncommon facility in reading music . It was his most faj £ o _ urite amusement . His taste was formed on the best models ; his perception was remarkably nice ^ and his judgment accurate . He was a bigot to no school in music , but his two favourite

    composers were Handel and Webbe . His remains were interred on the Sunday after his death , and he was followed to the grave- by the tears of his relatives and friends ,

    and by the blessings of the poor . If a stranger had witnessed his funeral , he would have supposed some great public , character was deceased , so large was the number of persons present ; but the tribute was paid , not to exalted rank , to title , to splendid talents , but to modest worth , to active benevolence—in a word , to the virtues

    which adorned and graqed the life and character of a true Christian * Norwich , E * * T . March , IS , 1812 .

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    Obituary . —Mr . John Wiggett Roe . —John Home Tooke . lQl

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    181 % . March 18 , at his house at Wimbledon , John Hokne

    Tocmce . —This extraordinary man has flourished so long , and acted a part in the world so remarkable and diversified , thatit is not within our limits to attempt any outline

    of his life . Neither , indeed , is it necessary , to those who are at all acquainted with literature or oiir domestic history for the last forty years , to delineate a man . wko taut

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/55/