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grief on your account is , what ih » d ** < ed you pretty well know before , tha *>* t is 4 ttt of «* y poorer either toesttricate you out df this wretched situation , or to assist you in it :
for you well know that my business which consists chiefly of keeping a small shop here in the country is what ( especially of late ) brn * g $ a m ere t ri fl i ng ad van t age witb it . For the present exorbitant ? price- <* # the necessaries of life
puts it ovk % of the power of the common class of mankind to apply any part of their earnings to the purchase af clothing ; and as to the dehts , which they contracted before the advance , I can discover
n © distant hope of their being in any condition to discharge them . This circumstance renders my present situation very embarrassing on account of my traders . You welfl kiiow my foundation at enter little trade
iog into a was very slender , and an increasing family , tender constitution , together with a variety of unavoidable afflictive incidents , have Conspired to prevent an amendment in my circumstances : indeed my utmost arilbition as to trade is to be able to
make "short payments for rary goods , bedause fctictf' as cati do so , are at liberty fcM deal when and with whom they shall think proper and not Undergo the mortification of
lookiAg on and Seeing themselves imppse ^ l on withbtitrenion&trating . TJb ^ W ceto ai n * * th * t * n& man does well in ti * $ dM of any kind , unless he has the cotnttiand of iff : Thfj *
therefore hats still been' the summit of all > toy wishes : because could ? I hftv ^^ fttti ried this , 'it ^ piaAdfjkwto * c&dbWtime ions < shtnry deat rela ^' tive ^ fi « t ^ ir i ntW 5 e 3 sij : y Ajftt ! thedim their iflfticilbnf to have set niy
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children in a way of passing through life with coryfort , decency and usefulness , and of contri- * bating towards the support of that religious society , with whom we statedly join in the worship of ^ Almighty God . But this is a situation , in which , perhaps , an Allwise and Gracious Being does not
see proper to place me ; and I hope 1 shall still make it my endeavour , as I have hitherto , to acquiesce in the following petition of Mr . Pope ' s Universal Prayer :
" This day be bread and peace my lot 5 All else beneath the sun , Thou know ' st if best bestow'd , or not , . And let thy will be done . "
As to the inquiry which you make in relation to our family , I shall endeavour to satisfy you as far as it lies in , my power ; but it cannot be expected to be either so correct or particular as could ; be wished : because our grandfather
was removed from this world before our father had reached eight , een months of his life : so that he was deprived of all that his immediate predecessor could have in * formed hirep ^ in his growing up $ concerning the family . JHowever
there was a brother , whd was a Nonconformist minister at Bemin- ster , where be continued to the day of Ins death , ( which happened 1 more than thirty years since > greittly esteemed for his ^ piety and * leaPn * -
ing by all bis acquaintance y and > my father , observing my uncommon inclination to vbopkg , ( even from my ^ childhood ) ^ as $ eVeral times toakrune c with hitrii fov * fr& or three 4 ay ^ t ^ getber ^ whW % ; ^ lad , tq vfsii ^ i ||« siw < - tyw 9 aw » i entertained ^ ome ^ hope ? , vm tfee ^* gentlerfan ? tJ ae ^ chilttle ^ th # t wt ^ eu
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Leters of Mr . Bartholomew Huare . —* Letter IV * 28 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/3/
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