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1819 . July 8 , at his house in Exeter , aged 77 , the Rev . Joseph Bretxand . He was a native of that ancient city , in which he spent the whole of a long-protracted life in the uniform habits of literary retirement * Purity of heart , rectitude of conduct , and simplicity of manners , were prominent features in the character of this virtuous man . Endowed with
strong- intellectual powers , his application was constant and unremitting * , and his mental attainments proportionally great . The love of truth might justly be considered as his ruling- passion ; while his calm and philosophic mind was ever assiduous and indefatigable in the pursuit of
it . His religious opinions , which were strictly Unitarian , were the result of candid , free and deliberate inquiry , adopted upon the fullest conviction , * and , though formed at an early period , they were established and confirmed by the subsequent reflection , and persevering- research
of his maturer years . In morals , in theology , in metaphysics , and in biblical criticism , his learning 1 was profound , his judgment solid and acute , and his integrity inflexible and unimpeached . These qualifications and endowments are sufficiently evinced by the few productions of his pen *
which his genuine modesty and humility permitted him to commit to the press . As a preacher , the discourses of this distinguished scholar and divine were marked by a chaste and correct style of composition , aud a rational , undissembled and elevated piety \ while they were addressed to the hearts of his hearers , in a simple and impressive tone of delivery . Mr . Bretland , at different periods of life , engaged in conducting the religious services of two most respectable congregations of Protestant Dissenters in the city of Exeter . Both these connexions , however , were only temporary . Upon principle , and for reasons satisfactory to his own conscientious mind , he afterwards declined the regular and stated exercise of his ministry , and retired from the public duties ef his profession , and passed the remainder of his days in serenity and peace ; till , at length , he closed a life of study and seclusion , from the ordinary pursuits and vanities of the world a life devoted to truth , to
cerity , to piety and resignation to the will of God , without a struggle or a . sigh -and calmly fell asleep in the happy assurance of a glorious immortality T . . J .
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—— 14 , at Norwich ) aged 3 $ t Mr . William SAltft 5 whose profound acquire-- —•• i
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ments in mathematical knowledge , and whose abilities as a teacher in that department of science secured to him Fora series of yeavs considerable celebrity . Mr . S . had , at a period when young * men usually commence such studies , qualified himself , by the most laudable application , to be a mathematical teacher- Whilst his
genius and natural inclination attached him to the mathematics , he evinced no bigoted partiality to his favourite pursuits . Actuated by the genuine lo \ e of wisdom , his powers were not circumscribed by prejudice to one department of literature . Under a conviction of the utility of general
knowledge ^ he in the midst of affliction sedulously devoted the hours in which he was not professionally engaged , to the improvement of his own mind and the instruction of his only daughter . During several years the enjoyment of health had been an unknown blessing *; his friends
frequently departed impressed with an apprehension of the near approach of the melancholy event which has till now been protracted \ his most intimate acquaintances , they who could best appreciate his sterling * excellencies—his medical friend , whose successful efforts have repeatedly revived the almost exhausted frame—his
disconsolate wife and daughter——have all beheld suffering's beyond those ordinarily endured hy mortals , and with admiration witnessed fortitude and resignation which philosophy might be proud to boast , and which religion calls her own offspring . The limits of a paragraph will not allow enlargement , or much more might be said ;
we shall only add at present , that the abilities and the industry of any man like Mr . Saint would encourage his family to anticipate the acquisition of an ample pro * perty but neither genius nor diligence , aided by temperance and economy , can counteract the effects of many years * affliction . A frirnd of the deceased thinks it
no exaggerati m of partiality to say , that science has lost one of its ablest promoters , and the world one of its fairest ornaments a mind of strict integrity and pure benevolence . ' — -Norwich Mercury ^ July 17 .
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June 9 , at Parliament Court Chapel ^ after a . short but painful illness of six days , Mrs . vSahah Wilson , who was many years pew-opener of that pl * ce . Sh «* had belonged to the congregation meeting then * about 23 years , during * which time she gained the respect of all who knew her , J . N .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 445, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/45/
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