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g ^ ofc Y&a fiftte liol a mometit aegteet- $ r wagfeei For the day is riot ftt ^ distant when you too , the youngest and tbfc best of you ^ tll , who have hitherto experteocecl nothing of life but its joys , and to whom hope presents her gayest and most splendid visions , wiU stand trembling on the borders of' an eternal world . I need not tell you that it is a
serious thing to die , I need not say to yoa that death is a scene of distress and anguish , of alarming reviews and of awful prospects ; the final period of all the endearments and connexions of this pro bationary state ; an hour when the mind is no longer cheated by appearances , when the most resolute yield to fear , and even the virtuous are in danger of sinking under the remembrance of their frailties .
You know it to be so . You are conscious that it is . Go , then , I conjure you , and dedicate youj : early powers to God . Value , as you ought , the religion which you profess ; and make its doctrines , its duties and its hopes the habitual guide of your conduct . Cherish the recollection of
departed love and virtue : it will excite that tender sorrow which it is salutary to feel ; and it will lead you to aspire after a reunion in happier climes . Trust not in health and vigour ; nor forget the allimportant interests that are connected with eternity . — " That life is long which answers life ' s great end : " that alone is
short which bears upon it no mark of piety or of goodness , and which leaves behind it no fond remembrance , no memorial except that it has been spent in vain . ' * Honourable age is not that which staiKieth in length of tjme , nor
that is measured by number of years . But wisdom is the grey hair unto men , and an unspotted life is old age . The righteous that is dead shall condemn the ungodly which are living ; and youth that is soon perfected , the many years and old age of the unrighteous . "
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lamented , and his loss more dearly fDit by his subjects , than it is possible for tho ^ e to conceive to whom his merits and popularity are unknown . Many potentates whose ex ploits have dazzled the . eyes pf the world , may envy rtheir less powerful conte inporary the place which he occupied
in the love and gratitude . of his . subjects He succeeded , in 1804 j his father , Ernest II ., a prince of uncommon merit and acquirements , and was grandson , to the celebrated Duchess of Saxe , Goth a , to whom Voltaire dedicated his Annales de VEmpire . Being well aware , that , by entering into the military service of any great potentate , he might , in case of a
war , involve his own subjects in misfortune , he did not , like most of his contemporary Princes , enter into the service of Prussia or Austria ; in consequence of which , when Bonaparte overran Germany , the territory of Saxe Goth a was , in part , exempted from many of the evils which befel other principalities . The Duke was in heart a true Saxon—those
who are best acquainted with Germany , will best appreciate the value of this panegyric . He lived in habits of intimacy and friendship with the revered King of Saxony ; and always iuveighed , in terms of manly reprobation , against the treaty of spoliation and injustice , by which the most faithful and loyal subjects in
Germany were separated from one of the most conscientious sovereigns whom the annals of history record . The Duke was distinguished by his urbanity of manners and splendid hospitality towards strangers ; but after the irreparable injury inflicted upon Saxony , the Prussians ( as may well be imagined ) were always the least
welcome of his guests . In person , he much resembled the Royal Family of England ^ to which he was nearly allied : his late Majesty ' s mother , the Princess Dowager of Wales , was great aunt to the late audr present Dukes of Gotha . He resided constantly in his dominions , and shewed every anxiety to promote their interests ,
and increase the happiness of those who were committed to his charge - He was equally well versed in the language and literature of Germany and France—in both of which he expressed h'Toself with uncommon elegance and originality , His literary productions , though somewhat eccentric , bear the stamp both . p , f geniun and philanthropy . To his friends he wa&
most cordially attached ; and one , of the few faults with which ht * can be reprqached , is the munificence ajid , fre ^ iiency . qt his presents . His conversation was rp ^ plete with wit ami aneccjote ; it w ? ts impossible to listen . tQ him without being both amused aiftj improved . H $ was twice married ,: 1 . l ? okou ^ princ ^ of Meqk - leubuig Schw ^ n ^ by wjuw h $ baa left a ,
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Obituary . —J . Ufctrfy Af . H .- ^^ JDtuke QfySkfiqe Gothu a AUenburg . 4 § 5
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July 2 , John Reid , M . D ., of Grenville Street , Brunswick Square , author of «* Essays on Hypochondriasis and other Nervour Affections ; " a second edition of which was lately published . Dr . Reid
was educated at the New College , Hack l ) ey , and was intimately connected through life with the liberal Dissenters . He was highly respected for his talents and acquirements , and esteemed for his amiable manners .
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lately , h 4 s $ e « eu ^ Highness , Augustus , reiguing Dufce of , Sarfe Gotha and AUen-^• g , in Xhe 50 th year of his age , All « ough not culled upon to act a bcilliant part ^ on the great theatre of European PPlities , hia decease ; will be more emcqrejy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 435, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/43/
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