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cock ; and , as it will doubtless be acceptable to many of your readers , I have great pleasure in transmitting it fo * insertion in the Monthly Repository . J . H . BHANSBY . Sacred to the memory of the ingenious Mr . John Short , Jun . student in di v inity at the Academy at Exeter .
the virtues of which , extending their influence through everj scene of life , cheered his suffering * moments with resignation , fafth and hope , and pointing * his departing" spirit to the hallowed source above , dispelled the fears of death , and threw the light of immortal glory
on the darkest shadows of the grave . Farewell , thon lovely youth ! and to thy gentle spirit , and all its pleasing and useful endowments , we bid farewell ! till the trump of the archangel reanimates the sleeping dust , and
death is swallowed up in victory ! Till we join thy happy spirit , indulge this tribute of parental love ! And while fond remembrance , hovering o ^ er seeues of past delight , sends a tear to thee , may it be swallowed up in the bosom of that which knows our infirmities , and remembers we are Dust !
A youth whose very childhood opened , like the fairest dawnings of the morn , with those flattering prospects of futnre excellence , which his more ripened years confirmed with fresh hopes , and received with growing lustre . His understanding was enriched with the choicest treasures of real knowledge , and his genius elevated and refined by the contemplation of the sublimest objects .. Nature had been peculiarly liberal to him , and Art had improved its bounty : for
his application in study was as intense and unwearied as his apprehension was . ulear , and his mind capacious . Conversant , from his earliest years , with the finest models of ancient and modern literature , he instinctively felt their beauties and copied their excellences 5 but amidst the pleasing excursions of a poetic fancy , and the deeper researches of a philosophic mind , He forgot not those grand and more important inquiries which his duty , as a Christian , and his office as a probationer for the ministry , chiefly required . He saw the
beauties , and felt the force of divine truths . As he knew the principles , so had he imbibed the spirit of Christianity : hence his conduct was an amiable copy of the benevolertjce , the integrity and piety of his heart ;
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Exeter , Sir , November 1 , 181 S . BY the death of Mrs . Avis , [ p .-720 , ] the sister of the late Dr . Rice Harris , I lately became possessed of his common-place book , in which I found the following entry , which will probably interest many of the readers ? of your useful Repository :-
—« March 19 , 1765 . —I was this evening informed by the Rev . Mr . Furneaux , that he is the Author of the Introduction to the 1 st and 2 d Epistles to the Corinthians * the Epistle to the Hebrews , that of James ,
1 st and Qd of Peter , the 3 rd Epistle of John , and the Revelation , in Dr . Doddridge ' s Family Expositor , the I > octor having died before the work was perfectly finished . Tfre Introduction to the Galattans and Ephcbiam fry Mr . Godwin , and the renuwrifer of the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 734, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/6/
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