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August 20 , at St . IveSj Huntingdonshire , age& 436 years , Elizabeth , tlie wife of Thomas Escolme Fisher , of that place , Solicitor . She was a lineal descendant of two ancient and highly respectable families * Her ancestor , George Underwood ,
of Kensington , Barrister at Law , ( whose father was an alderman of London , ) married Joyce , the daughter of Sir Robert JoceJyn , of Hide Hall , in Hertfordshire , Knight , an ancestor of whom , Sir Gilbert Jocelyn , Knight , accompanied William I . in his Conquest of England . The family of Jocelyu was raised to the Peerage in
1730 . Mrs . Fisher possessed a mild and affectionate disposition , which rendered her an amiable and endearing wife , a tender mother , a sincere friend . She bore a long
and painful illness with great fortitude and resignation to the Divine Will , and exchanged time for eternity without a struggle or a sigh . She died with a firm conviction of the truth of the Divine Unity : to which conviction the conversation of Mr . Richard
Wright and the late Mr . Winder , while on visits to Mr . Fisher , did not a little contribute .
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A Sketch of the Character of Abraham Shachleton , of Ballitore . u en he , whose soul now melts in mournful lays , Shall shortly want the gen ' rous tear he pays . ' *
Survivors owe a debt to departed worth , to make some record of the virtues of those who have finished their terrestrial course with honour ; and , avoiding the fulsomeness ; of indiscriminate panegyric , to erect at once a memorial dictated by friendship , and to hold out an example of good qualities for the imitation of others .
My acquaintance , and consequent intimate friendship with my highly esteemed friend , did not commence very early in our lives . "In the summer of his rife I knew him , And called him friend 5 for in our hearts did dwell Sonre kindred likings and some kindred
scorns : The tyrant ' s state , the pontiff ' s pomp and pride , The hireling ' s meanness , the debasing tricks Of avarice , the sycophantic airs Of dangers after wealth : ah ! subjects fit Of generous scorn . Together we did hail The star of freedom rising on a world
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Of slavery-goaded men ¦ , Snapping their fetters off , enlarged antl free /" In the arduous profession of a schoolmaster , Abraham Shackleton was anxious
to discharge the important trust with the most strict integrity . He loved his scholars with a strong parental affection , and in an . especial manner identified himself with their interests . In the honest enthusiasm
of his disposition , he was desirous to be in habits of close intimacy with them , hoping by kindness to gain on their hearts ; and feeling * strongly , as was his accustomed manner in all things , the errors of too great severity towards youth , he perhaps fell into the opposite extreme , and by
relaxing the bands of discipline , left under too little restraint the youthful passions , which require a firm , though gentle hand to restrain , till reason have established its rule . The motive was amiable , although the effects were not successful , either in a pecuniarv point of view to himself , by the
falling away of h * is school , which , however , with a generous indifference , he disregarded ; or as respected the scholars , who , being left too much to themselves before they had acquired habits of self-restraint , were in danger of deviating from that narrow road ,. which conducts to the heights of virtue . But to be in extremes was the
error of this worthy man . How happy , if he bad blended the peculiar kindness of his manner towards youth , with enforcing the salutary restraints necessary for their government !
He was strictly educated in the society of the people called Quakers , was for many years an esteemed and active member among them , and had attained to the rank of an elder . He assumed the right of private judgment , and gradually developed some
sentiments in opposition to theirs , especially on the subject of the Scriptures , which he treated as other writings of a mixed nature . He more than doubted of some of the historical parts , particularly of the assertions that God commanded the
Jews to destroy the Canaanites , with circumstances of peculiar cruelty and atrocity . For many of the poetical parts , as highly congenial with his own ardent imagination ^ he retained great admiration , and more especially cherished the sublime morality as taught by Jesus Ghrist ; concerning
wham he rejected the Trinitarian hypothesis , without appearing fully to have made up his mind as to the doctrines usually called Unitarian . His opinions were his own , and not borrowed . His religion being
very much founded on feeling-, he was accustomed to speak of Christ in a mysterious manner ; and being a firm believer in the peculiar Quaker doctrine of mn immediate revelation to each individual , lie combined it in an allegorical manner under the figure
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Ohituary .- ^ Mrs . Fisher .- * -Mr * Abraham Shackleton . 56 $
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tlonicrton Academy ----- 100 Orphan School ------ 50 Besides a number of private legacies to ministers , and to the widows and orphans of ministers deceased . Evan . Mag \
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 583, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/47/
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