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S « ise of pnin and danger flies F # om the looks of those dear eyes : Looks of kindness , looks of love , That lift my mortal thoughts abo ^ e .
While I view tha . heavenly face , While I feel that dear embrace , While I hear that soothing voice , Tho * maimed o , r crippled , life ' s my ch < ice :
Without them , all the fates can give Has nought would make me wish to live ; No , could they foil the power of time , And restore youth ' s boasted prime , Add to boot , facne , power and wealth ,
Undistmb'd and certain health , Without thee , ' twould nought avail , The source of every joy would fail ; But lov'd by thee , by thee caressM , In pain and sickness I am blest . ' " ( pp . 20— % z . )
There seems , to be great truth in a . remark of Mr . Trotter ' s that Mr . Fox alone was insensible to the wonderful superiority of his own mind . He shrunk from praise * To the First Consul ' s culogium upon him on their first interview he returned no answer ;
and when on his going to a French theatre he was recognized by the whole audience and greeted with louder applauses than had been bestowed upon Buonaparte , who was present at the same time , he would neither make himself more
conspicuous to gratify the spectators , nor seem by any sign to be conscious of this flattering expression of their admiration : the latter incident is worthy of the best ages and the noblest characters of antiquity .
, Inquiries have been eagerly n > ade into fylr . . Fox ' s sentiments on religion , and it has been sometimes represented that he w # s not a , Reliever . 1 . 9 divine revelation ;
JMf * . Trotter complains of this statement , and , avers that , as faSr ^ a ^ Ms knowledge reaches , it is act $ n |)\ gy q \ indlesybut absolutely fofabZn w # ow * sK , however , that
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some more decisive evidence of Mr . Fox ' s acceptation of Christianity had been produced than a conversation on the immortality of the soul , in which Mr . F ., then ill , spoke with seriousness and earnestness v humility and modesty ( pp . 470 , 4714 We do not agitate this question because we wait for its decision to determine the estimation in which
we shall hold the great man to whopvit . relates . We joyfully re . ceiv $ ami c | evoutly revere Christi . anilyy but we do not consider faith as the measure of patriotism : and in fact , whatever might be Mr , Fox ' s sentiment as to the doctrines
of the New Testament , he cei ^ tainly was animated by its berigu ? spirit , and his memory is oh manyaccounts entitled to the blessing of reli gious men . The death of Charles James Fox was suitable to his life ; he descended with calmness , intrepid- ;
ity and magnanimity , though not without sensibility , to the gr&"ve : ( p * 465 . ) fixing his eyes upon Mrs . Fox , he said I die happy \ and well Wight he Ait happy ,
whose powerful talents had been diligently employed ,- during the greater part of his life , in proraoting ^ guarding and vindicati ng the happiness of his countrymen and of all nations !
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Art . II . —Discourses on Evang ** Heal Subjects ; both DQctrual and Practical . By Richard Wright . 12 mo . pp . 314 , & Liverpool , printed ; sold by DEaton , London * 181 !•
( Concluded from p # 5 $ u ) In D . vi ; we have a statement of " " The Christian doctrine « Reconciliatian / ' f « H » 2 C « v * A l *>
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612 Review . —Wright ' s , J&cangelical Discourses ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 612, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/36/
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