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the calamity which still followed him . * London , May 5 th , 1807 . " If the malady with which it has pleased God to afflict me should not entirely disappear , I hope I shall be able , by his grace , so to discipline my mind , as to prepare it for any consequences of such a disorder ; consequences which I dread to anticipate , but which I think I could bear
without guilty complaint . I sometimes fancy my memory has already suffered ; but perhaps it is all fancy . You will perhaps say , that it is no very strong proof that I have any serious apprehensions on this score ,
that I atn continually purchasing and sending out books , and say ^ ing to my mind , Thou hast goods laid up for many years .
Truebut though I may be cut off by the judgment of God from the use of these luxuries , they will he a treasure to those who may succeed me , like the hoards of a
miser scattered after liis death . I consider that , by every book I send out , I do something for my dear country , which the love of money seems to be depressing aliiiost into unlettered barbarism . " In February , he returned to London , passed the following spring and summer in a tour through England , Scotland and Wales , embarked at Liverpool in August , and reached home in September . * His disorder , though the mild climate of the Continent seemed to
* Mr . Buckminster preached several times in London with great acceptance . Among those , in different parts of the kingdom , who saw and conversed with him , the most pleasing memorial repiains both of his accomplished mind and of his pious , amiable temper . J . H . U .
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662 Memoir of the Ret ) . J . S . Buckminster .
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mitigate it , and even for a while to flatter him with the hope of complete recovery , remained radi .
cally the same . His constitution however , probably gained some additional vigour by his travels and was thus enabled longer to endure the attacks of his malady . He returned now to all the du .
ties ot his office with redoubled activity . He was welcomed by his society with unabated affection and regard . But no praise ever seduced him to intermit his dili . gence . His books gave him an inexhaustible source of interest and delight ; and , as he was unavoidably exposed to frequent
interruptions during the day , his studies were protracted till midnight , with fatal constancy . In the inquiries peculiar to his profession he took
increasing pleasure ; and he was more than once heard to say , that he was fast losing his taste for all other studies . In order that this all-absorbing interest in theology
should not wholly destroy his relish for elegant letters , which he justly considered as a valuable auxiliary to his ministerial
influence , he occasionally lent his aid , as he had done previously to his voyage , to the Monthly Anthology , and other literary periodical publications of the day .
His only habitual relaxation was music , of which , from his youth , he was passionately fond , and in which his taste was , it is believed , very exquisite . This of course led him to take an interebtin the sacred music of his church ; and , in order Co make this part of worship more perfect , he collected and published , in 1808 , a number of hymns , a supplement to those appended by Dr . Co ! man to an A merican edition of Tate and Brady ' s Psa lms .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 662, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/2/
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