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the benefit of * ' the vising generation /' renders what follows an appropriate close of this obituary sketch . JB . B . u I think it but justice io the world , to state the circumstance to which she attributed the formation of her character , and to
which she traced all her actions , sentiments and opinions while on earth , as it may be useful to the rising generation , and particularly those wlio have the imprinting * the first ideas and sentiments on the infant
mind Ci She constantly leferred all her principles and motives of action to the sacred regard that her mother taught her to have to truth . Insomuch , that she had no recollection of the period , when she had not an abhorrence of deception , collusion and
falsehood . And it is worthy of remark , that this impression was made on her , —not by threats or bribes , not by correction and reproof , or caresses and encouragements to speak , the real fact , but by an appeal to her honour , her candour and sense of right .
" It was from this cause that she never remembered to have committed a fault , but the moment she was aware of it , she hastened to her father or mother to confess it , in all its circumstances either of aggravation or palliation . From this cause , she was brought to a habit of examining , even from her childhood , the motives of her actions , and determining whether they were allowable or not . And she even
teased her mother to hear { her confessions of sin and folly . Her mother used to laugh at her sometimes , and say she was not a catholic priest , to hear or to absolve sin ; and at others to say she ought to make these revelations , not to her , but to the Supreme Being . Still she persisted in it , because it was a relief to her mind to tell her fault * .
" It is true this was followed with one inconvenience ; it gave her the appearance of a hesitation , and seeming irresolution , which those that did not know her were often apt to set down to the account of weakness . It was , however , nothing * more than the appearance , for when desired or in any way obliged to be decided , she was so ia the strictest sense of the word . She
would say « I believe / ' I suppose' the thing is so , when she knew it to he certain that it was so , till it appeared necessary to speak out and act as she ought , am then , though feminine as the most feminine at other times , she was as decided asf the most positive and determined .
** This circumstance fostered by tfce best examples jby that honour , and love and rectitude , for which her uncle and mother ( and fadeed her aunt , the J ) r / s wjfe , ) were remarkable , au < J t ^ at i&e jaw iji all around her 5 added to a lovely disposition , asocial
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temper , end a heart that felt for all men , and that was all alive to the welfare of her friends , made her vyhat she was . " It was hence when the cause of liberty , virtue and truth was the topic of discourse , her eye brightened , her heart fbeat in unison with the subject , she was all animation and life . Hence when she could add to the happiness of her friends , or advocate the cause of the poor , and wipe the weeping eye or soothe the bleeding heart , she went almost beyond herself . These things could cheer and animate , when nature was fast wearing down , and dissolution was near at hand . And even when articulation was
lost , and she had hot strength to speak so as to be understood , she felt the motions of love to those about her , and wished to be the means of administering to their comfort . *
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140 Obituary *—John li / iodes , Esq .
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Jannary 21 , at Saville Green , near Halifax , John Rhodes , Esq . aged 59 , senior partner in the Banking House of Rhodes , Briggs and Co . and one of his Majesty ' s Deputy Lieutenants for the West Rising of Yorkshire . Mr . Rhodes sat
down to breakfast in apparent health and spirits with his family and some friends who were on a visit jn his bouse ; he retired hastily from the table on account of a crumb of bread irritating the top of the windpipe , which induced a fit of coughing , the violence of which broke a blood-vessel
in his lungs , and in half an hour he was a corpse ! He was thus snatched away when his apparently renovated health led his friends to entertain the expectation , that a life so much endeared to them might be spared a few years longer . It has seemed otherwise to that wisdom which
cannot err ; to that Providence whose judgments are mercy , and whose dispensations , however inscrutable , are always g-ood , and for good to all . Mr . Rhodes was a gentleman in the best sense of the word ; his politeness was the offspring of the heart , and was dictated by a consideration for the feelings of others ; his
manners had the grace and elegance which evinced that he had seen the world , yet without a particle of the hollowness and insincerity of the mere man of the world . He was an upright and honourable man , and the noble spirit which disdained every thing mean and servile reside !) in the kindest heart , and made him at the same
time one of the most high-minded and gentlest of human beings . He watf habitually prepared to meet death in whatever way it mig-ht approach him ; ibis ! was a frequent topic of conversation , with hi * most intimate friends , and be often intimated the impression of his mind tftat his death would be saftfleii - he alw&y * sp *^ ot # yin £ with t * composure and trtwiqiiilltly equally removed ftcm stoictil in 4 iflw ^ ce
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 140, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/60/
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