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last ftage of ^ is ^ e « rt ^| i j ^ ij rae ^ iy ^ fe as y ^ fj ^ Ai ^ rcad ^ ai ^ KHi ! iaced # w , a # terminated on August ? t 18 X 5 , in either the 80 th or 81 st year of his age . About two years before his death he of the
became a i ^ ember Western Unitarian ^ ocicty ^ and at its meeting in Yeovilfn I 3 L 4 , when the late venerable Dr . Tpulmin preached , a respect , able cooopany of gentlemen dined to * gether , and Mr . Webb was requested to take the chair . This office he
discharged with much propriety , and with more spirit than might have been expected in a person on the verge of fourscore v He declared , that ¦ though he had often presided at different
meetings , he never did it with so much pleasure and satisfaction , as on the present occasion . " No man ever possessed a more independent mind than the subject of these remarks . He never hesitated to think
freely on all subjects of human inquiry , and to speak unreservedly on proper occasions what he thought . In political sentiments Jjjje ; was a staunch Whig , though this did not prevent him from esteeming a conscientious Tory : in religion , a Unitarian
Protestant Dissenter , though of too liberal and enlarged a mind to confine his friendly regards , much less the Divine favour and future salvation , to those merely of bis own denomination * He was a man of a delicate moral taste and
strong feelings , which led him to perceive clearly and to expose forcibly the deformity and baseness of vice in whpmsoeyer found . A mean , cringing , timeserving disposition his soul utterly abhorred ; while he could pot refrain from expressing , in terms of rap * * ure , his apprpbation of noble , generouSj , disinterested actions .
Cm pudor , et justitiae soror lAcprrupjta fides , nudaque veritas . ,, :- v Houaci And ^ h ^ re * . will equal justice find , Where . tfeajiy faUh and naked truth , & > ^ . euerpua and so great a mind ? >/ , .. . ¦ . C » KECH
Waxiflh i& , An * friendships , he was * ^ yi ¦ if occasion required , to make the ^^ tesk / swrifiges to them * His benev ol ^^ p aUo prompted him to serve ?* Wf # t 8 « fc who , , needed hit aid to / the
*** % ^> tus-abiUfcies , some pleasing m-** W « Bs , ojfn J ^ hich ; # re i k nowfi > -to tftfe P ^ fl V wri ^* His companictaaWe t *** s ro , rt ^ ie of the frrsrcla *^ and no **** x ) u » kw * letter how-to ftritc tht
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^ utiie etjoeundum . - itk stock of information seemed to be inexhaustible I There w ^ as in his ¦ conversation always something new and interesting .
In manners , Mr . Webb had the address of the polished gentleman . In stature , he appeared to be not less thaft six feet high ; of an athletic * nake ; well proportioned j upright inliis gait , with a fine , open , manly countenance * expressive both of intelligence and good humour .
The writings of Mr . Webb wiiitfh have appeared before the public , ( few in number ) evince a lively imagination , elegant taste , an enlightened mirid , and rational , fervent piety . The best Greek and Roman classics were familiar to him , and his memory was so retentive as enabled him to make
appropriate quotations from them 'on ail subjects . His allusions to them and the heathen mythology * indeed ate so frequent , as to cast a veilof oh security over some parts of his poetic compositions , except to those who are themselves well versed in classic lore . The
same however may be said of his favourite Milton , and many other poets ^ but which I think cannot be justly ranked among their greatest excellences . Besides the two volumes of
sermons already mentioned , in the year 1790 he published a quarto pamphlet of poems , on Wisdom , on the JDeity , and on Genius , the tVro first in blank verse , and the third in rhyme , enriched with many valuable notes , containing the sentirfiehtr * of the most celebrated ancients oxi these
sublime and important subjects . ' Iti the year 1811 , appeared froiri the saiifte pen , a Poem , termed Somerset , Written in blank verse , with the spirit 6 f a voting Poet . Cthough he savs ** time
has p luck'd my pinions , **) and rfri enthusiastic admirer of Nature , through which he delighted to Idok up tb Nature ' s God . The following lines will illustrate the truth of this observation , and furnish a specimen of his jpoetic powers and devotional feelings . f *
Hail , Nature ! in whose various works ajp ~ pear * r Tbe J ^^ mwn fran » i 5 jript © f the Mind In ^ Thee ^ w ^^' cr i $ beautif u l * su ^^ ne ,. t ^ tH qo ^ esga ^ dent traixsport we > ejxold . tworsh ^ a tnee witnouU [< i 6 latry . T ^ ifi ^ Tnee "homaee , I nay H 6 ma . ce pay - ill 1 IVJmT ** TV ' US' ' ^ TT € * \ " * /*>• £ ~ ** - 5 *^ TrjJ ITbrHlm ^ ho form ed thee thus to be ador '(} . Th ^ Uflitme Wb Tcrople ^ KuHiaii ' Warts
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Sketch qfth $ Ljfe , Charactert &c . of the late Francis Wehh * JBs $ . 19 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/3/
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