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von * Of this parish his father was the clerk . I have heard from , some of the inhabitants , that , when young Kemiicott first offici * ated in the church therey a &ingu ± larand friendly contest took , place in the vestry , between the parent and the child ; the father
insisting that he should be
permittedas was his custom , to help the minister in putting on the surplice , the son as earnestly declining the aid which , according to his omi sense of propriety , he could not bring himself to receive from such
hands ; but , at lengthy yielding to the old man ' s laudable pride and affectionate importunity . On the death of his parents , Dr . Kennicott placed upon their tomb an inscription , which I read
and transcribed there many years ago , and which strongly attests their merits , and his gratitude and duty . I am informed that he has been censured by some fastidious critics , for adding to his name , as it appears on the stone , the
initials of his academical distinctions ; although the effect of this simple proposition is chiefly owing to the circumstance of its being penned by afi illustrious menrber
of the university of Oxford , as a memorial of parefttal affection and virtue iti retired lifeV The epitaph itself is a beautiful proof that the canon of Christ Church was not
ashamed of the comparatively mefcri situation t > f those who g&ve Into birth , —was not urigrateM for the precepts aric ^ examples of thdse who , in such a situfctionr , had laid the foundation of his future gfre&fri&s : " :
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" As virtite shbnld bef of gdrid report , Sacred be this humble monunient To the menjqry . <> f Bpjamin : Kteanicott , Parish ^ t erfc of Xotness ; And ^ liiatbeth his wife ; The latter an ex tof > Je of evfety Christian — duty ; The former , animated with the warmest zeal , Regulated by the best good sense , And both constantly * exerted ' For the salvation of himself and other * . Reader ; y r Soon shalt thou die also .
And , as a candidate for immortality , Strike thy breast , and say , * L * et me live the life of the righteous , And my last end be like his . Trifling are the dates of time , When the subject is eternity ! Erected by their son ,
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Samuel Ogden ^ formerly rrias * ter of the free granittiar school ' at Halifax , in Yorkshire , * and afterwards Woodwardian prpfessor in the university of Cambridge , acquired by means of his talents , a considerable share ot opulence and refutation . He alttfoSt wholly
supported his father and mother ^ who both lived to an extreme age ^ That his heart w $ s finely tuned to filial affe ^ tion ^ appears frbm his exqiimtelly faiti l 6 ti 6 serrbbxis on the fifth commandment ; arid
also from a Latin epitaph , which he wrote on Ms father ^ p \ & caused to be fixed , at hiV own ^ penie , on a marble tablet , in' tlie Ccf ' l ^ giate Church , at Mktichertersf A more delightFur pictu ' i ^ b d ati . scarcely tjje tnel"With c * tte ^ rtlieS of a parent in 4 of th ^ sfensibiKty oi a son . / J obn Origg ^ H pre& dhe ^ of gre&t elddufetice aihoftg tB ^ di ^^ ti ^^ of 1 £
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Remarkable Instances of Filial Piety . 45 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 453, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/29/
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