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Bucktninster can never be thought of , but with increasing admiration of the fortitude , and reverence of the piety , which sustained him . Those who saw his habitual gaiety of disposition , and observed the lively interest which he took in his friends and all the usual occu .
pations of life , and especially , who witnessed all his cheerfulness and activity , returning almost immediately after the severest of these attacks—were disposed to think that he could not be sensible
of the terrific nature of his disor . der , or ever look forward with any distinct anticipation to its threatened consequences . It was seldom that even his nearest friends
heard from him any allusion to his calamity ; and , perhaps , there was only one of them to whom all the thoughts of his soul , on this subject were confided . How
little they knew of him , who imagined he was insensible to any of its appalling consequences , will appear by the following extract from his private journal , which it is impossible to read without
emotion « October 31 , 1805 . Another fit of epilepsy . I pray God that I may be prepared , not so much for death , as for the loss of health , and perhaps of mental faculties .
The repetition of ihese fits must , at length , reduce me to idiocy . Can I resign myself to the loss of memory , and of that knowledge , I may have vainly prided myself upon ? O God ! enable me to
bear this thought , and make it familiar to my mind , that by thy grace I may be willing to endure life , as long as thou pleasest to lengthen it . It , is not enough to be willing to leave the world , when God pleases ; we should be wil-
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ling even to live useless in it , if He , in his holy providence , should send such a calamity upon us . I think I perceive my memory fails me , O God ! save me from that hour !"
It js proper to remark that this suspicion of the failure of his me . mory was , it is believed , wholly without foundation . His fears for the safety of a faculty—which in him was always so eminentl y perfect , that his friends scarcely ever thought of appealing from it
on any question of fact—were awakened probably , by that loss of facility of retention , which every philosophic mind trained to the habit of classifying its ideas is accustomed to experience with regard to those insulated facts which
cannot be easily connected with its general knowledge . ( To he continued . )
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Historical Account of Students educated at the Warrington Academy . ( Concludedfrom p . 530 . ) 1778 . 303 . Samuel Shore , Norton . After three vears residence went
to Geneva , where he spent two years , and afterwards studied at Lincoln ' s Inn , married Miss Foy , ( sister to No . Z 55 ) and settled on his maternal estate at Norton Hall , Derbyshire . For several years he was President of Manchester
College , York ; which office is now held by his excellent father , the patron of all good designs , after whose example he continues to support the cause of civil and
religious liberty , and , unashamed of his nonconformity ^ to maintain a place for Unitarian worship in his native village . 304 . Samuel Yate Benyon , L .
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594 Students educated at the Warrington Academy *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 594, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/6/
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