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    print the discourse , of which some hundreds of copies were engaged by individual subscription . In the years 1814 and 1815 , Mr . Joyce was mathematical tutor in the Unitarian Academy , and in this , as

    in every other office which he sustained , he insured the esteem and gratitude of all with whom he was connected . He relinquished the appointment only in consequence of his being engaged , in a manner the most flattering to him , to superintend the

    education of the younger branches of a noble family . A few other pupils were admitted into his house , and had his life been spared , he would probably have continued to conduct the education of youth on a plan and terms which would have been suitable to his talents

    and acquirements , and eminently serviceable to his family . Mr . Joyce had long fulfilled one of the most important trusts amongst the Protestant Dissenters , that of Dr .

    Williams ; and the surviving trustees all bear witness to his pre-eminent usefulness in this capacity . His place was never vacant ; at the appointed moment , he was at his post , and whatever business was confided to him was

    punctually and fully executed . He had been an occasional contributor to this work from its commencement , and in 1815 he began a series of papers on Natural Theology , of which he lived to communicate only thirteen numbers , the last of which

    was inserted in the Repository for April , ( XI . 201 , ) in the same volume which some pages onwards recorded his untimely decease . He died suddenly and without pain , * in the bosom of his family , at Highgate , June 21 , 1816 , aged 53 , and was buried with his fathers in the

    churchyard of Cheshunt , where a tombstone is erected to his memory , with the poetical inscription which has been inserted into this work ( XI . 614 ) , from the elegant pen of his friend , the Rev . William Shepherd , of Gateacre .

    A wife and several children , in whom he was truly happy , survive to revere and perpetuate his memory . * For a more particular account of his <\ eath , see Mon . Repos . XI . 350 , and especially 434 , 435 , where there is also a just Jjnd finished character of him by the Rev . rhomas Jervis , of Leeds .

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    His character may be summed up in a few words : probity , industry , simplicity , fortitude , benevolence , and rational piety . A remarkable plainness of appearance and straightforwardness , and

    perhaps bluntness of manner , which characterized Mr . Joyce , sometimes led superficial and distant observers to form an erroneous notion of his temper . On a nearer acquaintance they discovered that , under asomevvhaf rough exterior , there lay all the amiable and virtuous

    dispositions which qualify a man for friendship and social and domestic happiness . In company Mr . Joyce was unobtrusive and even retiring ; yet not so as to abstract himself from his companions , much less to appear to watch their discourse : hiscountenance shewed

    that he took an interest in whatever was the subject of discourse , and he was not backward to take his share in conversation when he could communicate pertinent information , or bear testimony to what he considered to be truth .

    The ordinary state of Mr . Joyce ' s mind was calm and equable ; but he was sometimes excited to considerable warmth of feeling , and to a correspondent strength of expression . He

    displayed this earnestness chiefly when exposing the misrepresentations of sophists and the calumnies of bigots . He was tolerant and indulgent to all but baseness and hypocrisy .

    Fortitude has just been ascribed to Mr . Joyce . In assigning this virtue to him , the writer is justified not only by his deportment in his political troubles , but also by his conduct in the equally trying scenes of private life .

    Some few years ago he was reduced to the necessity of undergoing a surgical operation , the event of which was doubtful y ' Sunday was fixed on by the surgeons for the operation ; on the morning of that day he was seen with his usual countenance , sedate but

    cheerful , amongst his fellow-worshipers at Essex Street , and before and after his return to his own house at Highgate , he was employed with an unruffled mind in arranging his papers and leaving instructions , to meet a possible disastrous issue .

    His acquaintances often wondered how Mr . Joyce contrived to accomplish so much business with so little

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    Memoir of the late Rev . Jeremiah Joyce . 703

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/7/