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HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.
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Memoir of the Rev . J . S . Buckminster . ( Cpntinued from p . 594 . ) J . n the spring of 1806 , the injersase of his disorder induced
JMr . Bucfeminster to think of a voyage to Europe . Mis congregalipn , with a generous . preference ipf his advantage to their own con ? - veiiience and pleasure , readily con ^ rented to his departure ; and he
sajled for Liverpool early in May . Be was received in London at the home of his relative and country ^ ¦ TOtn , Samuel -Williams , Esq , who , , with his brother , an early friend u ( Mr . Buckminster , made his re *
wdetice delig htful by every possible attention . In August , having been joined by his friend , Mr . Thatcher , from Boston , he ^ m-. barked for the , . Continent , and lauded atHstrlingen , on the Zuyder Zee . He passed rapidly through
the chief cities of Holland , sailed up the Rhine , and , partly on foot , faade the tour of Switzerland . At Geneva , he wrote , in a letter to 4 friend , a description of the fall fti the mountain of Hqssberg , or Rttffberg , which , is , perhaps , one - ? f the most beautiful and interestiD g of the minor productions of
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his pen . It will be subjoined to this memoir , to show how he could feel , and how he could describe From Switzerland , he directed his course to Paris ; where his s tay ^ which he had intended should be
short , was protracted to five months by the embarrassments to intercourse with England produced , by the first operations of the Berliq
decree . His residence there , how > - ever , could not be tedious , amidst the literary resources of the French capital , and the inexhaustible treasures of the fine * arts with , which
the plunder of Europe has enriched it . Much of his time , also , both here and in London , was employed in collecting a library , for which his remarkable knowledge
of literary history eminently qualified him ; and , before he left Europe , he formed , and sent home , a collection of nearly three thousand volumes of the choicest writers
in theology and general literature . Some of the motives which induced him to expend so large & part of a small fortune in the purchase of books will be seen in the
following extract from a letter to his father—accompanied with another very touching reference to
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THg M-0 NTHI . Y REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature . !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/1/
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