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    There are also some omissions * We have not any account of the Collection of Hymns published in 1788 . Who \ Vith any relish for devotional poetry , that has ever

    read the exquisite original hymri 4 i Enough of life ' s vain scene I ' ve trod ! " does not still keep it in his memory ? Some information of the state of his nvany valuable mathematical MSS . would have

    been highly interesting , for though the age is averse from matkeu matical studies , there aresomein * dividuals wliose taste and li beral - ity have bfcetv and might , perhaps , again tie ex € i * fcfedin giving mathematical treasures to the world

    The exertions of his friends to secure to himself ^ and other individuals of his family , a pecuniary provision ^ add the offer of ^ is friend Dr * Manning to the same purpose ^ so honourable to all the parties concerned , ought not to

    have been passed over in silence * Hte portrait i& miserably executed , and yet very- proVokfftgly has just sufficient reseifeblance to make the picture disagreeable . Whoi can fopget the varied expression of < his countenance when animated with

    iWelligence , ortel ^ xing iik play * fulness in conversation , when flushed with a keen indignation against vi £ e or low and

    unhandsome conduct , when beaming with devotion as he pbutfed out the effusions ctf Jufc pure spirit in extemporaneous prayer ? The * latter part top of the Memoir Js not

    made w interesting as it might have been , ' and in this respect falls very far short of ihe early

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    part , which is exceedingly well executed , and scarcely inferior to any specimen of biography , in developing the progress of / the mind and feelings of a youth «> f genius and sensibility * We do not see sufficient of the domestic

    life , the fire * side virtues of this most amiable man . The time speht at Nottingham is in this home view , too hastily passed 6 ver , and th < lse who knew him on his removal into

    Lancashire , who knew his good heart , who shared his friendshi p ^ and had access to the rich treasures of his powerful intellect , of his penetrating gebiu ^ , and of his comprehensive mind will seek here in : vain ^ TWE mm , in

    conversation so much admir < ed , in social intercourse so * ttuch caressed , 4 a his library aiid arm-chai ^ so much and tenderly beloved 1 In the Memoir he is justly exhibited as a great man * fcut we see too little of him as » good man . By way of suppling this deficiency ( for sucl * it se ^ fms to tis ) we offer one anecdote ^ and it will speak volumes .

    ** George , " said > a mother to her little bpy , a few J * ear $ old , ( who h ^ d often been the play-mate of this venerable man , and who used to propose forfeit solution , the many little difficulties' of childhood ) , « George , ! am sorry to say » Mr , Walter is dead . ' * « Nay * Matfupa , he cannot be dead , fpr you know it was

    but last month that he was here , and that vre played together on the carpet !** ' < Yes ^ imy deari but he k dead , he diedia liOndon ^ I have heard it on toogo 0 dauf thority . ' * ^ Oh ! Mamma , ' * said the child , bursting into tears , " if he be dead , I am indeed ^ sorrjr for it , for I loyed Mm as Mdl as if he had been a little boy !" H . 3 , T . 1 . ' . ' ¦ ¦ -j- * > v ;

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    Review . *—Life of Mr . George Walker . SIX

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/39/