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Mercy , encouragihg thought , Gives e ' en to affliction a grace , And reconciles K * an to- &is lot . . The following ; account of Dr . Moyes is extracted from a paper on blindness , by his friend Mr . Bew , in trie " Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Maockester , " where JDr , M . resided in 178 a . « He lost his s % ht by the small-pox in his early infancy , and " neirep"
recollected to have seen , though he traced in his memory some confused ideas of the solar system . Brought up in a family d evoted to learning , and aider ** in his own application , he made rapid advances , not , only acquiring the fundamental principles of mechanics , music , and the languages , bat likewise , an acute and
general knowledge of geometry , optics , algebra , astronomy , chemistry * and in short , of most of the branches of the Newtonian philosophy . Mechanical exercises were the favourite employments of his infant years * At a very early , age he ( made himself acquainted with the use . of edged tools so perfectly , that he was able to make little
windmills , and even constructed a loom with his own * hands , which still shew the cicatrices < if wounds he received in the execution of these juvenile exploits . He W 9 . s a striking instance of the power the mind possesses of finding 1 resources under the most rigorous , calamities . Though involved in * over ^ during
darkness / and excluded from the charming views of silent ojp animated nature ; though dependent on an undertaking for the means of bi $ subsistence , the success of which was very precarious ; though destitute of other support than his genius , J > r . M . was generally cheerful und apparently happy . "
Piqq ftt Tro wsjudoe , Wii ^ Ts . the following persons * xst , Oti . December 13 , * 8 af , WI-LJUAM WJ&STAJLL , * g ed 6 « a p * wi > pener at jtb © General -tfapti $ t Meeting . . J $ is . deat& , w # Sf icery sudden 5 being cm-$ >* ged in cleaning ther meetinghouse to ^ on Saturday night , ( iDec- ** . ) he feU . 4 » wjn in , a fit , was cawied home fcJmpsfc senseJeas , and expired esirlyi next ^ orning ^ teawing behipd him the character of a , worthy ^ hriscianu 34 , On January » 6 ^ ^ 808 , MARY SAR ^ BAKT , aged « # , ^ widpw ^ of Sa-<«» Aj 6 l Sajr ^ eantv ^^/ aa ^ rJy a n&geoptblc
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bdilder , and for mapif y&rs clerk « t the afopesaid OineraS £ > a $ rt : i $ t : Meeting . Her infiimityand long ^ a&iction had rendered ' her for some years ifitapable -of attending public worship . ^ $ d 9 On February 4 , r 8 b 8 , after a lotig ^ and painful illness , xvkith she Tiore ^ ritht wonderful patience and resig ^ nation , EJLEANOR JONES , a ^ ed 9 years &a& five months , daughter of $ > aniei Jonc . % pastor at the same General Baptist
Meeting / WitH respect t ^» p rogress an lean > - ing and delight in religion , « he . wsst equalled by very few of her age , And such was her aptness to commit things to memory , that she could repeat hymns ^ sacred poems , &c . to tla-e astoni ^ kmem of all who heard her . In her af&ictroa
She was so free from the fear of death * that it was always feer wish to tlepart and fee at rest . I > . J . Saturday , Dec . 13 , at Ormsidrk , Mfi HOLLAND , reJlct of thd late Rc ^ Henry Holland . Tho-e who knew ker not may read the record "with little attention or concern , but her ac <| ttaintznce relations , and friends \ vi \ l
immediately recollect her pleasing and courteous manners 1 her willingness , to serve and oblige ; her faithful assiduity in superintending female educatidtt- ; her inoffensive conduct during a life of more tb&m 70 years ; her readiness to sacrifice her own ease and comfort for th ^ benefit of
the sick and the afflicted , and the tranquil composure of a pious Christian , who went about doing good . After a paralytic stroke she lingered for a week without much pain , and then died as placidly a " s she had lived . Lrtwrpml Chronicle * Feb . 4 * JOSHUA WILLIS of
Raydon , in ^ Suffolk . Piarly in the morning he got iip from his bedy left- ¦ ftH shirt With his other clothes in his betUroom , and walked naked . to a sigh-jfxbst , on the i * 6 ad leading froiji' Raydon to Stoke / , and was found hanging by his arrna on the » aid post . On feeing taken into thqitext liouse , he died , ftoxn the Wclttnchcr of the weather , and from his having m a fit of frensy beaten tuxdr bruised him $ elf upon and agai « 3 t the sign- | iO 5 t . , It appeared that he fcelon ^ ed , to a spifcty of fa n A tic s * and $ I > at he tyzd' for -sdaft *
days before' bcfcn " hxaarie nnd ' ^ lmast dfitjtractjed ; ttlat hfo ' imatf \ ito £ * loaded concerning aHvtoxtfi ^ tate ^ ^ n < 5 lb «^ fc c wished ta 4 tc QlNtej ^ B ) Ptifa ' 'to ' fHr Saviour <* & *» tfc e * nr ., *>* ' * ' W&rs .
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W . Wesiat ! . Mary $ 4 rg 40 # fi .. Jstfcaaor yvxeu Mrs-Hotlutui . jfoshua WiUis .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1808, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2390/page/45/
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