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Still ' round his fame the mind inspir shall cling-, An awful pile—a venerable thing- — - Wbich years of crime and woe nor soil'd , nor hid , 'Mid Rome ' s decay—a deathless pyramid Methinks I vet behold his sacred form
More proudly gr&nd defy the thickeningstorm , Like some gig-antic rock assaiFd by waves Awe , moveless , the commotions that it " braves , His eye lit up with Freedom ' s ancient fires Where Rome ' s last virtue blazes and
expires—His arm still round her trembling relics east , His voice—the eartbless strain of ag-es past . And , as he sinks unconquei- 'd to the grave ,
He gilds the virtue that he could not sare , Feels Rome ' s last glow exulting in his breast , And on her latest trophy sinks to rest , There , ' mid revering ages to recline A deathless monument on Freedom ' s
shrine . And breathes there one , who , cas'd in pride austere , Refuses to his last mistake a tear ? Who Pagan greatness as a crime deplores , And owns no virtue save on Christian shores- ^
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In March last , at MUlidgeville ^ North America , Joshua Toulmin , second son of Judge Toulmin , and grandson of the late Rev . Dr . Toulmin , a young- man of most promising- disposition and talents , of whom his afflicted father thus writes : — u You would not wonder at my feelings had you known my beloved son . I never
said much to you about him , for I anticipated with pride the time when yon would become acquainted with him . His mind was of the highest order : his understanding * was capacious and cultivated : his temper was mild , yet independent : his manners
were dignified , yet conciliating : his person was handsome and expressive : no one ever knew him without loving * him . Will ^ bu wonder , then , that his loss is like the stroke of death upon me ? " „ J . B . T . Mirmingham , 19 / A Jnt y ^ 1818 .
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One who could see with scorn a Cato bleed * And boast a soundness not of hearty hut creed ? Forbid it Mercy ! teach him by thy nod To libel man . is to dishonour God ! Celestial Power ! ' tis thine with generous
eye , To view the glorious deeds of limes gone by Trace through all years and o ' er remotest earth , High indications of immortal worth ,
And find that , through kind heav ' n / s nunumber'd sons , One genial blood in vital current runs , Fills with high impulse each remotest part , . And warms and gladdens in the general heart .
Thou—when amidst the elemental strife The sage arises to celestial life , ~ With speechless joy his g-en ' rous soul shalt cheer , And bliss reveal he faintly gue&s ' d at here ; Pour truth ' s unsullied radiance on his eyes , And point to temples moveless in the skies . Where souls inhale the first sweet breeze of
heav n , Each hope surpass ed , each earthly stain forgiv ' n ! .. T . N * T .
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but , an infant in the selfish commerce of the world , was usually duped by the designing and the base . Driven from home by an unhappy and aggravated dispute for his patrimonial rights , be honourably made his talents the means of subsistence - bat the legal vexations encountered ia
maintaining- those rights , and the injurious , ardour of a secluded life of study , gradually obscured his mental perceptions , and produced the disorder which , defying all means of cure , soon terminated his guileless but melancholy existence .
Of Mr . Steel ' s lighter compositions , many have appeared ; but his unaffected ^ nodesty invariably withheld the name of their author . During the latter years of his life , Ins talents were employed in the classical office of Mr . Valpy ; and , from . this . situation , in the month of January , 1817 , be addressed a letter to a friend , a few passages from which may impart some idea of his worth and of his misfortunes .
u I shall die with the possession of vt perfect conviction of my own rationality 5 but I fear that I have been suspected of insanity for some time past . My physical sense may , indeed , have been some time unsettled , but my perceptions have always
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< 6 £ 4 Ohitucu 2 f . —~ Mr . Joshua Touhnin — Mt \ David Lee Steel .
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May 2 , of a rapid decline , aged 31 , Mr . David Leb Strix , eldest son of the late David Steel , Esq ., barrister at law . This unfortunate gentleman was gifted with a surprising memory and capacity . Deeply imbued with the spirit of Attic literature ' , end a critic in the learned languages , he was an elegant and a profound scholar ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 524, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/52/
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