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JL VJIlA llil.
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the Pre&byterian -detiom-ination , was born between the commencenxent and the middle of the last c £ ritury v at the village of Whitwell , in Hertfordshire . His origin was extremely humble ; but r marrying a lady of fortune , he afterwards lived in ease and
affluence . Of the solid obligations which he owed his parents far giving him a religious education ^ lie never lost sight ; and on his mother's death he composed some
lines to her memory , which are not only more correct and polish : ed tjhan the mass of his verses , but deeply interesting as a transcript of his iilial feelings :
In labours constant as the rising- day . Hardly she lived , but in an honest way ; Crown'd was her table with no sumptuous fare ,
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ON THE DEATH OF THE REV . HENRY ROBINSON , Formerly Fellow of ^ Trinity Colle ge y Cam " , » Jhridge ^ and late Vicar vf KcndaL 1806 . With pious grief we seek thy honoured
urn , A Christian pastor , father , friend , we mourn , A generous mind , with various learning fraught , With cheerful wit and manliness of
thought . Thy love paternal speak thy children ' s tears , Shed for the guardian of their infant years ; Thy liberal spirit , cultured ancj refined , Imposed ho shacldes on a brother * s mind ; Thy sacred office , free from bigot zeal , Wad spent togain thy flock ' s eternal weal Lowly thou liest!—thy virtues will survr . ' vive , ¦¦ ¦*¦¦ ••" ' ¦ ; . ¦ '¦ " '¦ *¦' ¦¦ ¦'' And registered in Heaven for ever live T
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But sweet each meal , far sweet content was there y- , Her ^ s , what ' s so rardy found , that pioui part ^ To live on litde ^ tvith a thankful neart . Still thankful , e ' en when life * s best blessing ded , And princely dainties had been bitter j
, T > reid , Through nine lotig years by sore affliction tried . Patience grrew perfect , and the sufferer died . Died , fkvotnr'd with expiring Stephen ' s vi £ w ; . , •'' Who would not thus bid this vain world adieu ?
She left her neighbours , relatives , the poor . No legacies of gold ;—she left them more 1 JLeft them a pearl , not empires . can sup-. Pty *—A fair example how to live and die . * N .
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Faith and religion look beyond the tomb , And dwell-with rapture on the world to ^ come I Yet friendship mournfully bends o ' er thy bier , Mingling its sorrows with thine orphans * tear . J . T .
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EPITAPH OK THE XATE THOMAS WARD , MACCXESVZEI . D , ESQ . , . The wise , the independent ^ apd the just » The good , the kind , the honest—all arc dtist ! Else had we s ^ en , O "W ' ard" ! thy noble
mind , , y Which nothing earthlir ever yet could l > ind , High o * er the common fate » exulting leap . . And anatch thee , living , from theyawo > ine deep ! Yes- ^ tMl nllltt yield at Death ' s unsparing ¦ ¦ ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1810, page 454, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2408/page/30/
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