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fio 4 * How deeply written in the laem-ories and hearts of his pupils are his Kind and unwearied exer * . tioas ! .-lie , was b » tbe Rail at eight , and bis labour in the three de * partraents condoned uninterrupt-] y till the dinner hour at four : his evenings were spent in preparation ibr the following day , and seldom could he retire till two or three in the morning , and frequently nat till a later hour . To detail his exertions would . be .. fruit .
less , as they would seem to all , except those who witnessed them , to be perfectly incredible . But by his family of pupils , and ' par . ' ticu . lar . ly by those honoured with his entire confidence and esteem , and admitted to the inmost recesses
of the most kind and generous heart , his disinterested zeal , his unwearied and unrequited labours , the treasures of his varied learning , the brilliancy of his imagination , the simplicity and
happiness of his eloquence , the correctness and . elegaoee of his taste , the- playfulness of his wit , the true and unaffected courtesy of his manners * the affectionate interest which , he took in all their
concerns , the kindness and liberality of his disposition , the ^ unbounded generosity of his mind , can wevitr be forgotten They *^ ill ^> held in everlasting refluent * imnce / Mn m . also took an of
acute p ^ rt member Literary ajnd Philosophical Society , of fi 4 a < nchcstery a » d on the death sfbBiv PerCival , he was elected President . He condn ^^ d for
nearly two yeatfs , after tho resig-^ t idn ^ f his office in the College , to . resijde' n ^ sjar Maneke&terj as it » ffordedj Uimi the amu ^ metit otf a lar ^ ge garden ^ to wHii ^ h he was ^ U his life much attaclied . How
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much was he endeared to his circle of friends ! His chief relaxation was the society ot a chosen few , whilst the completion of his mathematical wofk& ibroaed ttte ititeresting business of bis life . But the situation was flat and marshy , and diS not agree with his heatlth . Once more changing his abt > 4 ^ he removed to the village of Warvertree , neap Liverpool , where after a long aiid active life , spent in the cause of truth , religion , and
virtue , a life oh which he could look back with satisfaction anci find no cause for regret ^ he hail diitermined to wear out the eveiting of his days in the society of a few friends of congenial
sentiments and dispositions , by whom he was respected and b ^ love ^ j * But it was permitted him for little more than a year to enjoy tfie happiness which such a situation afforded , and much of this was spent under the languor of
increasing weakness , and in preparing for the publication of his works , an exertion too great for his decliiiing health , so that in all probability it accelerated his dissolution .
In 1 2 f 9 O ^ he had published tWo volumes < tf Sermons , \ Vhich 4 in the worths of the late deeply ^ lanientedMrJWakefield , are preenantwithyt&e celestial flre 6 t genius and the vigour of ncible sehtihe
meijts . ** Th ^ e w ais induced to rejniblWh with two additional volumes , and two volumes of Essays . With this piarpo ^ e he visited Louden iin thfe Sj ^ riiig of
1807 * Hia health decayed f ^ ic | . ly—^ an a ? tjta 6 k ^ t ) f Mmbkga eoiu fined ,- hi ^ ^* M l * d ^ hi ^ apfye 1 : l te feil ^ l hi o ^ h ^^ te ^ s 6 f iatfite suHk ^ gi ^^ ly ^ tftl ^ hand pf dea ^ i dfescerid # d ^ bn , KJtn as gendj ^ as affection could wish . Early on
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ite «? ie « 0 »—Life of Mr . George WalJeer . 509
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 509, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/37/
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