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Memoirs , 1820 ; as Paine ' Trial , nearly thirty years old , has now given place to the learned labours of later Attorneys-General ; and especially as the passage , so creditable to the discernment and independent spirit of the
author , when compared with the common stuff uttered on the wisdom of our ancestors , will be read with an interest increasing with every year ' s growth of " the infant establishment , " I here copy it verbatim from Gurney ' s edition of the Trial ( 1793 , 1 / 6 ) :
" It may be in the purposes of Providence , on yon western shores , to raise the bulwark of a purer reformation than ever Britain patronized ; to found a less burthensome , more auspicious , stable and incorruptible
government than ever Britain has enjoyed ; and to establish there a system of law more just and simple in its principles , less intricate , dubious and dilatory in its proceedings , more mild and equitable in its sanctions , more easy and more certain in its execution ; wherein no man can err through ignorance of what concerns him , or want justice through poverty or weakness , or escape it by legal artifice , or civil privileges , or interposing power ; wherein the rule of conduct shall not
be hidden or disguised in the language of principles and customs that died with the barbarism which gave them birth ; wherein hasty formulas shall not dissipate the reverence that is due to the tribunals and transactions of
justice ; wherein obsolete prescripts « hall not pervert , nor entangle , nor impede the administration of it , nor in any instance expose it to derision or to disregard ; wherein
misrepresentation shall have no share in deciding upon right and truth ; and under which no man shall grow great by the wages of chicanery , or thrive by the quarrels that are ruinous to his employers . "
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518 t ) n the Character of the late Mrs . Cappe .
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Sir , Clifton , August 9 , 1821 . LTHOUGH I doubt not the cha-Aracter of the late Mrs . Cappe , of York , will be delineated in your pages l > y a far abler hand than mine , I cannot refrain from expressing my veneration for her memory , and my sorrow at being deprived of the high privilege of her acquaintance and friendship .
Her end , no doubt , was blessed . In the midst of years and honours and prolonged usefulness , occupied to the
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very last with unabated enjoyment , and scarcely abated activity , in employments which afforded her supreme delight , ' —she may seem almost to have been g flcanslated rather than to have died . ^ Yet when I consider how much good she might have effected even
during the very few years that could have remained to her , that her character seemed to be ascending to nobler degrees of disinterestedness and pious zeal , and that the extent of her experience , the weight of her counsels , the love and respect of her acquaintance , and the lustre she reflected on our
cause , were increasing with every advancing year , I cannot help feeling and deploring the loss we have sustained . However , those who have known her may now console themselves with retracing the many good qualities by which she was distinguished .
Of her devotion it may scarcely become us to speak . < But who can doubt the unsullied nature of the spring whose waters were so pure and refreshing ?) I speak of her as she
developed her osra character , with all the simplicity of truth , in her conversation and her letters and in her deeds , which speak for themselves . Few persons at her advanced age felt so universal a concern for the welfare of the human
race . Earnestly as she was devoted to the particular objects which she had successively in view , within the immediate sphere of her exertions , she appeared to feel an almost equal interest in every method by which the progress of knowledge , liberty and virtue , were advanced in every part of the globe . Her heart embraced the whole
habitable world ; and did we know more of the dwellers in distant spheres , it was wide enough to embrace them with all their interests also . The divinity students at the college
have particular reason to remember the delight and improvement with which they listened to her conversation , and the unbounded generosity and kindness with which she followed them
to the field of their several labours in after life . It wa , s highly g ratifying , too , to observe that those to whom she extended so large a portion of her intimacy and kindness , were not the onl persons who formed an equally high estimate of her moral qualities . BeligioUs Bigotry seemed to be be-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 518, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/14/
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