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ledge , ki the cause of truth and for the benefit of mankind . Mr . Piurves was calm and ^ deliberate in controversy . No opposition , or even insult , ev « r ruffled his temper . In private life his convfei $ fctimi was cheerful * agreeable a&d instructive . Has manners were
simple , his sentiateatS liberal and his Mtachments affectionate and sincere . He possessed , in an eminent degree , the gentleness and mefekness of Christ . During the long and painful asthmatic complaint , under which he laboured ~ for some years before his death , he
Avas never heard to complain , but gently resigned himself to the will of God , When asked how he was , even when labouring under extreme pain , he would with cheerfulness reply , that he Was as well as could be expected . He retained his mental faculties to the
last , A few days before he died , he dictated to a friend two or three concluding pages of his Review of Paine ' s Age of Reason . " I shall not lie long in the grave , ' said he to a friend , who wept by his bed-side , " we shall not
be long separated . " By this he meant , that he and his friend sliould be partakers of the first resurrection , which he placed at the commencement of the Millenium , in which he was a firm believer , and which he thought to be at
no great distance . Mr . Purves died in the 61 st year of his age , February 15 th , 1795- His remains were attended by his sorrowing flock , together with many others , who , though they
differed from him in opinion , highly respected his character , to the Calton burying-ground , where he was interred . His widow for some time kept a bookseller ' s shop in Edinburgh , and afterwards removed to America . One of
Ins daughters , and some of his grandchildren , still form part of the Society in Edinburgh . T . C . H . M ^ M ta . . ^—
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of my intrigue with « TttsSkish feir 0 &e , and the desperate attePixaiiVe between life and death wtikfh ensued . Nothing would fee ima * e ^ prow ^ crtis ; Hbe seemingly bold measure had l ( mg bean
preparing : in petto ; and the muexpected dilerfrma to which I wasrrieduced , may only be said t 6 hme fixed tfae period for its execution . There had arrived at Ffera a foreigner whom I shall call Eugemus . His ostensible object was to acquire the ancient lore of the East , in return for
which he most liberally dealt out the new creed of the West . I cannot better describe Mm than as the antipode to father Ambrogio . For as the one was a missionary of a society for the propagation of belief , so was the other an emissary of a sect for the diffusion of disbelief . He meditated , indeed , a
pilgrimage to the Holy Land , but with the view to prove more scientifically the fatuity of all things holy . Reason , philosophy and universal toleration were the only objects of his reverence ;
and some of his tenets which I picked up by the way , had in them a something plausible to my mind , and , if not true , seemed to my inexperience ben trovceti . He conceived that there might exist offences between man and man ,
such as adultery , murder , &c , more heinous than the imperfect performance of certain devout practices—eating pork steaks in lent included ; and above all he thought that , whatever
number of crimes a man , using his utmost diligence , might crowd in the short span of this life , they still might possibly be atoned for in the next by only five hundred thousand million of
centuries ( he would not abate a single second ) of the most excruciating torture ; though this period was absolutely nothing compared with eternity . As to his other tenets they were too heinous to mention .
Ere father Ambrogio was aware that Eugei * ius broached such abominable doctrines * he li&d introduced me to him in the quality ctf Drojgueinan , or rather of Cicerone : fend the tone i #
which I vtfas deceived mijefJit ) have made the father susjfeet Uiat &tt was not right . Bat tKe father ' s t&rtgc of intellecttial vision expended notferther thai * his own nose , and thitt nGse was a snub
one " . It was you quibbling , sophistical Greeks /* cried Eugenius l ^ itgW » g >
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80 Initiation , ^ f a Mostemin .
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Initiation of a Moslemin . £ Erom Anastasiw : or , Memoirs of a Greek : in 3 Vofe . post 8 vo . Murray . 1 € 19 . Vol . I , Ch . x . pp . 199—213 . ] HISTORIANS often err in attributing to a single great cause the eflfect of many minute circumstaqces combined . My sagacious biographer , fbr instance , would not fgjl to pl « ce |» y abjuration of the Christian faitji entirely and solely to the account ;
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1820, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2485/page/16/
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