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tmii ^ ^^* Vt £ CYi £ bte age . 'V He-perused ttofe ^ ftii liis ;> i fdwntite ^ miscellany , the MottthLy K « po «« toiy ^ His regard was sib - cem and disinterested for the welfare of his connexions ; more especially' for the happiness ^> f th ^ ybuD ^ children , by whose caresses he was daily amused . He
exulted in the hope of tfu * gradual amelioration of mankind , ^ wkfi respect * to the important institutions of law and liberty , and ^ the i ncrease of . v true religion ; and above aM / far ^ he ^ prospect revealed in the Gospel , of' their ultimate triumph' over death and the grave , f * What is the present dying life in * the flesh , compared with this second ? life ? ^ Hie soul now
dwells in a decaying body , * necessarily occupied in conducting and preserving it . Pilot ' of this small vessel , ' it steers it through the stream iff time , amidst rogfcr and shoals and tempests . > There ' are some calm days , but there are more that are dark and stormy . *? ? ' The example of this eminently pious and amiable man may be adduced as famishing an
additional testimony , from experience , to the salutary efficacy of bis religipus principles and habits * irt living and fn dying . The beneficial tendency of the views entertained by the conscientious advocates of the Unity and Supremacy of the Divine Being , the God and-Father of Jesus , cannot be disproved , as it is supported by incontrovertible facts . But if their truth
be denied , and neither integrity of life nor serenity in death be deemed a sufficient test of their validity ; by what other criterion may their final result be ascertained ? * Walt , until ttfe Judge © hall pronoance frtfm * the throne ' of his glory , " Well done Thou good and faithful servaut , enter thau into the joy of i * iy
Lord . " - Farewell ! dear friend , for ever remembered and ever loved ! The poor who '¦ cannot recompense- thee , strew thy grave wkh the * flowers of - sorrow : thine Is the tribute of unavailing sights a&d tears ; but thy virtue , thy praise , are c # n > secrate& to f ^ tt < i » lii {^ -aQ ^ survive in tl | e Jiving tablet of the heart . f « & *¦ '& >¦¦
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- Feb . 26 , nt £ au * anne , in Switzerland ^ in tli ^ e th yea ^ of hiif age , 'J& $ H 0 jk S ^ ble ^ Esq ., the c ^ lebraited tr ag ^ diati . He was attacked on the 24 th with a parwtfc seizure , and this was followed almodlfliirmediately by anotber ^ and on the 2 # ^ i by a third , which , after a short struggle , carftedliitti * dm ^ He Was the eld ^ t' % a of Mr . Roger Kemble , and \ vas bortii ih 1757 , at ^ Frescoti in Lancashire . ' ^ He
received the first part of his edncattoti at the Roman Catholic Seminary at Sedg ^ y Park , m > Staffordshire , and-was aft ^ bwards sent to the University of Douay to be qualified for one at the leartied professions . Here he < soon became distin guished for : that talent for elocution
which afterwards raised him to such ^ eminence . Havi ng finish ed his acad emical studies , he returned to K « gla » d , arid pi ^ ferring the stage to either of the professions for which he had been intended , he performed at Liverpool , York , Edinburgh and Dublin , arid then at- l ^ bndon ,
where he made his first appearance ^ ia the character of Hamlet , Sept ; 3 ^; 1783 . His subsequent history is weH known . He published about the year 1789 a small collection of verses , under the tftlfe of Fugitive Pieces but was so dissatisfied with his own performance , that he soon stopped the sale and afterward ^ destroyed
every copy that he could procure . ' Tnfe few copies that escaped have fetched high prices . When he was at Edinburgh , in early life , Mr . KeroWe delivered a Lecture of his own composition on Sacred * and Profane Oratory , which , from the ^ taletii and sound criticism it displayed , gained him the reputation of refined taste attiong
instead of Death . cc Our frfepd Lazarus slee ^ et ^ - They , that sleep in the xiuat of the earth ehaU awake ; and k them that sleep in Jesus , shall God bring with M , « P . . ¦ ¦ . ; . « ,- . - ¦ - (( Attulk et nobis aliquando optantibus
\ ¦ a&tas - * ' . i - Auxilhim adventumque Dei , " ?—qui Soils v : Ut OrtUS , * ' ¦ .,. » y ¦ * ' \ <• H * « Disouteret tenebras animi , et per casca viarum ,. * • • > f : * ¦ •* , ¦ » *• - ¦ : Duceret , ipse regen » certo vestigia filo .
4 Fnif wiBM ' tW MoM of tlie pblH ^ r Romans , for the departed ; to avoitftlie harshness 6 f ¦ mo ^ iids est . " WsMdiif pe « ito 4 SV ' ir W' WffiMf : * tMLFtS& Hiumy ^* V ; eiif ««^ toF ^ ffifes ' T ** 4 ^ ot ^ wmmi 4 tffi # ^ f - ; -., ' ' ,- ; " ^^ mK ^ w f iV ^^ y ^ ^ fkTt pJmm ^ --iiJkm ^ '' i ^ f&n ^ W y 1 ^ w $ t 4 m \ Iwg . ^ '« yi ^ ' <^ £ t ¦ 'toff ¦ ¦^ ¦;* - nJh ' ib ^ fhVugf Mui vj * fe aWki ^ ' , i ¦ : i ' ¦¦ i /
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Obituary . —John Pi Kembie , Esq . ^ " * $ fa
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1823, page 177, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1782/page/49/
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