On this page
- Departments (1)
-
Text (5)
-
Untitled Article
-
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. —^^itei.—
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
Memoir of ihe late Rev . Jeremiah Joyce . JEREMIAH JOYCE , the youngest son Of Jeremiah and Hannah Joyce , persons in humble life but of truly respectable character , was born on the 24 th of February 1763 , at Cheshunt , in the county of Herts , His
father carried on at that place for many years the trade of a wool-comber . The subject of this memoir has borne public testimony to his worth as well as that of his other parent , who died only a few months before this affectionate son ** He was placed in a
* 111 the Apfteftdix to the sermon published after his 1 iteration from the tower , Mr . Joyce , speaking of his attachment to the principles of liberty , says , that it was " not the effect of sudden impressions , but
the consequence of instructions received ifi early youth . I can remember ( says he ) Bathing of earlier date than the honest indignation of a late highly respected parent , against the measures taken to enslave our brethren across the Atlantic . From
him I feaVtoed to consider the cause of -America as the cJause of man . His gratitude to the op posers of that unnatural afed malignant war w&s unbounded . The names' of CttAtfHAM , Camden and their co * &JMfcorfr ( the Jacobins of that day ) were dear to his heart , and the continual theme of bis p raise . " P , 13 .
To his mother , Mr , Joyce paid a becoming tribute of gratitude in the last volume of this work . ( Xl . 110 . ) She died in Her 90 th year , February 9 , IB 16 , leaving a hig-h character for personal piety and Maternal wisdom , eare and tenderness . A > few Weeks after his mother , March 29 « tta > died an elder brother , Mr . Joshua 2 ttta ) died an elder brother , Mr . Joshua of
** yce , of Estfex Street ^ a man active ** d eminent virtue , of whom also Mr . *« yice gave an account in the same volume . QU . 244 . ) By an affecting coincidence , "is death took place suddenly on the morning of the day on which Mr . Joyce proached before tlte Unitarian Society , and Hitieed' appeared for the * last time a * Secretly to tfiat inttithtion .
Untitled Article
good school for common education , in his native village , and afterwards put apprentice to a painter and glazier in the Strand , Westminster . In this situation , so disadvantageous to a youth whose first object was . mental
improvement , he gave indications ef that industry and perseverance by which be was afterwards so much distinguished ; for , after labouring all the day in his master ' s service , he would spend part of the night in the
acquisition of knowledge . The more he learned , the more desirous was he of learning ; his views were gradually turned towards the Christian ministry ; and at the expiration of his apprenticeship , he determined to prepare himself for assuming the office of a
teacher amongst the Protestant Dissenters , the denomination of Christians to which his family belonged . He was directed and assisted in his preparatory studies by the late Kev . Hugh Worthington , on whose ministry he attended during his apprenticeship , and whom he used to call
his " favourite preacher . ' * To this popular speaker and kind-hearted man , Mr . Joyce was ever forward to acknowledge his deep obligations both for his best moral impressions and for the chief advantages of his professional education . His memoir of his
deceased benefactor in this work , ( VIIT . 56 l—57- % ) is the best account of Mr . Worthington that has been published , and is highly creditable to the writer ' s feelings , especially as there was between him and his early patron a considerable difference of theological
opinion , which the latter could not always contemplate with philosophical composure . It must not be omitted , that Mr . Joyce applied himself a&this period with great assiduity to , the study of the mathematics , -mvwhich he ' received the assistance df Mr . * Taylor > the Platonist .
History And Biography. —^^Itei.—
HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY . —^^ itei . —
Untitled Article
1 'HE Sfc .
Untitled Article
Nd . CXLIY . ] DECEMBER , 1817 . [ Vol . XII .
Untitled Article
VOL . XII . 4 X
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/1/
-