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Hte children , all of that age at which a father ' s care and guidance are most peculiarly valuable , feel with their bereaved mother that they hare sustained an uuspeakable loss : and his numerous other relatives , with a large circle of friends who knew and appreciated his virtues , will long be deeply sensible of the void occasioned by his death .
In religious sentiment Mr . Pine identified himself with Unitarians , and exemplified in his last illness that placid resignation which It is so eminently the province of genuine Christianity to inspire . His remains were committed to the
earth , with an impressive address , by the Rev . B . Mardon , in the ground at Tovil near Maidstone—a spot most romantically situated , and originally purchased and devoted to the purposes of sepulture by a remote ancestor of the deceased . J . E .
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that rendered him a worthy member of the intelligent family to which he was allied . During intervals of leisure from rural avocations , he searched the Scriptures , or read the works of Locke , concerning whose Essay he was . apt to discourse with fluency and energy in his own native Cambrian dialect .
Without pretending to erudition himself , he fondly anticipated the gradual proficiency of his son , in whom he discerned very promising abilities , and fostered the warmest aspirations to excel . The high-minded youth put forth the ' * tender leaves of hope , " like the blossoms -of a delicate plant , that immaturely dies in the shade of its native bower .
The name of Thomas Lloyd is enshrined with profound regard in the bosom of all who were ever sensible of his exalted worth . He was reared in the school of the Rev . David Davis , of whom a valuable memoir was communicated in the Repository . In his academical studies this juvenile
professor held himself principally indebted for intelligence ana taste , to the favourable auspices of his accomplished tutor , Dr . Kippis . He was deeply enamoured of truth and literature , but , above all , exulted to contemplate ihe glory of the Homeric Muse , and the dramatic perfection of her offspring , the
Greek tragedians . The exercise of his profession at Swansea was attended with pains and hardships , that bordered on severe adversity . His ' office resembled a penance , like that of 7 ; aisiii ^ ,, grapes from wild vines , too old a , ^ crabbed to yield " nectarine fruits . " Ttye asperities of such labour were ^ not adaj > ted ^ 6 heal a " soul in anguish , " or aBaffhe irritations of a " troubled spirit' * Uhder the insidious ravages of im Irremediable disease , which he bore with more than heroic fortitude , he might say , with Christian resignation , " 1 die daily . *' j ^ rom his own example as well as his
instructions , he was eminently qualified to inspire the breast of docile and ingenuous youth with enthusiastic love of learning and science , and with ^ the admiration of all that is true , ' venerable , and lovely , of every virtue and every praise . * This liberal , conscientious advocate of free inquiry was . ^ exhilarated
* Mi ' nsegnavate cptfie f ') if > $ ^ eterna . Dante , dell'Inferno , t&nlo ' xv . V » 85 . Ego vero te , Carissime ,. cum vitse Ho re , turn mortis opportwnitate , divino consilio , et . ortum cfc extinctum ease arbitror . Cicero .
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848 ObiUm > ys !~ Uev > . Z > . Daws *
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Rev . D . Davis . There were some errors-in our account of Mr . Davis . ( See ' p . 6 $ 2 . ) Mrv Thomas > of Leornfnster , was Joshm , not Josiah Thomas : and Mr . Evans , of Stockton , fo Betyamin , and not John Evans .
There is no burytng-ground attached to the Meeting-house at Liwyn-rhyd Owen . The body was taken from the dwelling-house to the € hapel , which is within a short distance , and there Mr . Jones preached his sermon ; it was then conveyed to the Church of Llanwenog , four miles distant , in the burial-ground of which it was deposited . Mr . Thomas Lloyd , the Tutor at Swansea , was the nephew , not the son , of the Rev . David Lloyd .
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A note , subjoined to the Obituary , iti p . 693 of the Repository , contains an error [ corrected above ] respecting the paternity of Mr . Thomas Lloyd , who was not a son * of the truly Reverend and renowned David Lloyd , but of his brother , Mr . John Lloyd , a Cardiganshire farmer of estimable qualifications ,
* Filius ? Quantum instar in ipso , e » t f Heft mii&rande puer ! Manibua date liliaptenis : Purpureosi spargam flores ,, animamque nepotis His saltern acciunulem donia , et fun ** gar inani Munere .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1827, page 848, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1802/page/64/
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