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tirtes of his character . I might attempt , but I am sure it would be in vain , to describe the magic influence , by which hedrewarouiuji him a circle of most devoted friends ,
by whom his memory is embalmed in the fondest recollections and regrets . There are many , who feel with me , that his death was the rupture of some of the strongest ties , which the human heart can
know . Even now , when time has interposed to subdue all the more powerful emotions of grief , there are those , who delight to recal the hours , we have passed with him , and to dwell on those traits , which
we loved , while living , and which death cannot efface from our me . mories . While we think , how important to the interests of truth and virtue were the lisht of his
knowledge and the Weight of his influence , how many plans of improvement were connected with his exertions and encouragement ;
when we remember , that a mind so rich , so active , so original , so elevated , is no more to impart its conceptions to other minds , that the voice which has warmed so
many hearts , and guided so many steps to immortality , is silent as the grave , and is no more to be heard in the church of God , or tie circle of friendship ; we are
oppressed by the magnitude of the loss , and are ready to number it among the darkest of the divine dispensations * Yet it is ordered by better wisdom than ° urs ; and we cannot but discern
many proofs of mercy in the time ° f his departure . His wish was granted not to survive his usefulness . He disappeared in all the tightness of his honours , without Niy twilight coming over his fame . We are spared the dreadful spectecle of beholding such a mind in
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ruins . God can raise up other instruments to effect his benevolent purposes . —Farewell then ! we must say of thee , felix non vitae tantum claritate , sed etiam opportunitate mortis . May the example of a
life like thine , devoted to truth , to Tirtue , and the best interests of mankind , animate us to follow thy career of piety and benevolence * that , by the grace of God , we may join thee in another world , where friendship will be uninterrupted , and virtue eternal I "
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A Letter Jrorn Mr * Buckminster to Arthur M . Walter , Esq . Geneva , Sept . % 6 th , \ 806 # My Dear Frimd , cC We have at length finished the tour of Switzerland , and add
two more to the ten thousands * who have seen and admired before us . M r * . -T- ha-s been n ^ y companion , ever since we . i ; elu £ r tantly parted with ¦ , ¦ ,., ; , y * \ . i * £ Rotterdam , ( 13 th of i ^ ugil ; and
as he has a taste for the picturesque , and Ifhave pretty gpod J 3 jre $ f we hav $ seefl and enjoyed $ , s mucjj * as other galloping travelIqrs . Yqu , I know , are gather curious in ge ^ grqtphy ; and if you are at leisure
to pore over a large map of Switzerland , you . wijl have it in your po ; wer ^ to trace your friend's route through this interesting country * After a satisfactory journey ^ up the Rhine , from Rotterdam through
Utrecht , Nimeguen , Cleves , Cologne , Coblentz , Mayence ,, Worms , Strasburg , and Co . lmar , we entered Switzerland at Basle , the 5 th of September . For the sake of see * .
ing the famous Chute du Rhin , vye went fifty miles out of our way as far ^ s Scaffhansen , passing through . a j ^ arit of the Brisgau , once belonging to the humbled house of
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Letter from Mr * Buckminster to Arthur M . Walter , Esq . 731
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 731, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/3/
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