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beloved child of her own , with which , as $ hette € & t 6 kstyy Providence had rewarded be * i Hct aifecfitfii for this child was unbounded ; and as she concaved that the business of education could not begin too soon , and that the affections and temper may be trained ,
in some rmasure , even before an infant is capable of speaking , her sedulous attention to this object gained her the admiration of , and endeared * her verymuch to , all the intelligent females of her acquaintance . One expedient among many other excellent ones may be mentioned .
When the child was little more than three years old , this excellent mother began a diary of all those little transactions which more particularly deserved praise or blame . In this book entries were daily made , in the most simple language , of good lessons said , of particular acts of affection towards
her parents , of attention to injunctiotrs , of generosity to playfellows , &c . &c : and every morning the occurrences oP the fbrmer day Were read over and rewarded , when they deserved reward , with the affectionate smiles
oFtne mother , who was soon convinced tnat the plan had a ' very beneficial tendency . This diary was regixfarly kept fdr several years , and tlie anxiety which the infantile mind discovered respecting the nature of the entries which were to be made on
eaefi day , afforded a gratification to the fond parent which amply recompensed her for all her toil . When the deceased came to reside iirtdndon her Constitution was very mufch -broken - and as she was then chiefly among strangers , her time was fof the most part employed in the
ca ' re and education of her daughter * but she never neglected to minister to th ^ wants and c oui forts of her dependents atd tnejr families ; to pay a physician for them wiien necessary , and to provide for the instruction * of tneir children ; for It may be said , withfotit , any fear of contradiction from
thbVc who knew her , that amidst all her avocations aa act of charity or of kindness always afforded her the most supreme delight . Like other human beings she had her failings , but they chiefly arose from the irritability which five and twenty jeats of disease had occasioned , and Jbey were nev'er fail' »(* ef the heart ) ftr a woman with a
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warmer heart , the writer of this article never knew . With respect to her religious character , she was from conviction a Unitarian , and was capable of supporting her opinions by suund argu
ments , both from reason and the scriptures . She used to say , that she never remembered to hare held any tenet , at any time of her life , which in her mature years she had reason to consider to be derogatory to the
wisdom , or the all-perfect goodness of the Deity . Her friends professed opinions very similar to those of Ari us , and she was baptized by a minister of that persuasion who has since become one of the most zealous and abfe
champions of Unitarianism . * Indeed , in her lively moments she used to congratulate herself on the circuULstance of her being made a Christian by a man vrho now so well understood the nature of the religion of Christ , She was fully persuaded that maa is
entirely material , and that she should sleep in the grave till the resurrection * " It will be a sound sleep , " * she used to say , and sometimes has added , that * it would be so sound that however long the period might be which would in tervene , the moment of death , and
that of resuscitation would appear , to the individual , to be simultaneous *" Formerly , she was very fond of the scriptures and of consulting- rational commentaries on them , but she never liked any one to see her reading the bible 3 which was probably owing
to the detestation slie had of any thing like spiritual pride . Of late years when she was overwhelmed with hysterics , or laboured under tbe most oppressive depression of spirits , she used to have recourse to the sermons of the late Mr . Joseph Fayrcett , and
from them always found relief * She used to say , of those elegant compo * sitions , that they were more precious than gold * Notwithstanding this nervous , irritability , which often rendered her dissatisfied with herself and with
those about her , she evjer ^ vinced in times , of tribulation , difficulty or danger , a spirit truly masculine and heroic 5 and the greater the difficulty , the greater appeared to- be the superiority of her spirit - and this it was > ¦ . ¦» ! ,... 1 1 «>¦ y * The Rev . Thomas Belsham , atf JEssex Su'eei CJjapd , lioudan *
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Obituary—Mr $ * S . Pzrlccs * 7 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 71, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/71/
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