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Last year , at the house of his youngest son , at High Wycombe , in Bucks , Mr . JOHN WORSUBY , in the seventieth year of his age ; well known for thirty years , as master of a respectable boarding-school at Hertford , which ^ had for fifty years before been supported with great credit and usefulness by his father , the translator of the New
Testament , a superior scholar , and peculiarly well versed in Grecian lore . Mr . John Worsley had been known by the publication of a Latin grammar , in which the rules are & iven in English , and the declensions of the verbs exhibited , in a simple and easy form : also , by a paradigm of the French verbs ,
drawn out on the same plan . There are many still living , formerly his pupilg , who will bear witness to the value of his instructions , the mildness of his disposition and ., his unwillingness to employ even that necessary sever . ty without which places of education cannot be kept in order : A sincere friend of
man , and a patron of every scheme that could tend to public good , he was always foremost in the rank of subscribers , and freely gave his personal attendance where it mi ^ ht be productive of any benefit to the cause of
benevolence . Easy in his mind and happy in his temper , he felt not many of those storms of life which break the repose of restless mortals . Believing that the morrow would take thought for the things of itself , he saw no need of
taking an anxious thought for the morrow ; aod , convinced that evile enow would fall to his portion upon earth , he never made any designedly lor himself , nor had any inclination to meet them on
their road , or give thjem a welcome hy hewing them a habitation ready furnished for their reception .. In his breast , sorrow rested but a short time , hojpe and confidence in the good providence of ** od 4 > bt £ ined * perfect government
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there ; and while he ; knew that human life would always be chequered , he thought its brightest spots best deserved his attention and care * The tender friend of his children * he seemed to disregard his own wants in order to supply theirs ; and , a 9 their families increased , and they required his help ,
fee gave an example which but few parents wiH follow , of despoiling himself that he might make them happy . ——JLet the grateful incense of piety perfume the ashes of the dead , and while their memory lives in our hearts may their virtuous actions be copied iu our lives !
JLately , at the advanced age of seventy years , JOSEPH WIDDOWSON , who during a laborious and profitable life supported a character of perfect integrity , dignify and usefulness , in the society of Lincoln . Of his death it may be truly said , that he came in like a shejek of corn fully ripe . ' With no other friend than his industry he began his worldly career , and after having brought up a large family in a genteel way , and seen them settled comfortably and respectably in life , he retired from business a short time before his death , to enjoy the savings of- prudence * economy and sobriety . The world has seldom seen a more determined friend of gospel truth . -Naturally of a keen and active mind , he threw off the trammels of
prejudice and of custom at an early age * and launched out fearlessly into the pcean of opinions , with his on instructed , reason for a pilot . It may he presumed that in so bold an adventure , he found himself sometimes at a loss . He
was educated in Calviuistic principle ? , and feeling their importance ( for truth under any form -was important to turn J he followed them up -t / u their consc quences , and with a small numbe / of Mends became a ReHyan Univefsalist , called an Antinorman . This bantf'Itf
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tomrades may think of them ; and in the day of re ^ l conflict , we have no -doubt that the refuser of duels , will perform in the best manner his duty to his king and country . What . shall-we . A ^—— OCT— II IIM H II ¦ »» ¦ HI » i WIH l | I III ¦ ¦ !—WWM »
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say of an officer , who aims a bali at the breast of a brother officer at the time when the services of both are called for f Ought he not to be considered as a * v enemy to his * king and country ?
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Mr , John l&orsley ^ Joseph JViJdotuson .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/59/
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