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» Ne mortiia quMenb est Ofympift nostra , sed vivit cutta Ohristo beata ¦ et itnmdrtalis , ac post tot serumnas et labores in dulcem atque optatam quietain recepta est . Vivit , vivit , inquam , Olyrapia , etiam in hoc mundo , vivet-< jue dum erunt homines in mundo , in viva immortalique suorura operum
divmorumque monumentorum , atque otnnium excellentissimorum ingeniorum meraoria . * R . S .
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T ^ IS Biographical TribuWlf i ^ iftfrfc Wmmey und Mrs . SwanwicA .
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Gloucester , Sir , Oct . 15 , 1822 . IF you will be so indulgent as to allow-me two niches in the walls
of your distinguished literary and religjous temple , I feel a pleasing conviction that J can fill them with the effigies of two persons richly meriting to be ranked amongst the excellent of the earth . The first of these I had
the honour to be acquainted with for a period of seven years ; with the second , about twice as many months . They both became objects of my high consideration and respect from the first day of my knowledge of them , . andtime , as it passed along , enhanced
my esteem . . The impression which I received at the commencement of , my acquaintance , became more lively in Its progress , and the nearer it approached to intimacy , the basis of my regard was enlarged . I must not , however , proceed to develope as far as
I am able the respective characters of these ladies without requesting forgiveness , if need be , of their survivi ng respectable relatives , for volunteering myf services in this undertaking ,. I may fairly suppose they have been
prevented \ jy adequate causes from paying a public tribute of posthumous honourable notice to their memory , add possibly they might have been preparing- this tribute , but deferred it from thpt html nf motifs ' £ in /»*>
however , several months have been suffered io elapse , and nothing hq . s ye ^ Vappearejd in youx valuable wort , 1 have n steppe ^ l fo rward to redeem , to the fypst of my ability , their memories
p ^^ i ^ atuie hj vivis esse descisgts t , cfarA p ^ endmvt . . . ' . >• : [' ? fXi WPi : from b ^ s { eM ^ riJtP ; Oiymphfe jnotheF , a / aiaouncuig her 4 eatfte ; ,
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fro ^ i oblivion , and to precFude : the poasibilTty of two most atn&bte persons being removed wit&aufcuotifce and Atohonoured from thfe world . I itiy&t add
too ,, that I sincerely Tiope nothing that I shall state will preclude more finished pictures bein ^ p resented to the public eye from those who are competent to furnish such traita of excellence as
fell not within my observation . " The memory of the just , " says the sacred writer , " is blessed . " But this blessing would not rise to its just dimensions , if the living preserve a profound silence as to the merits of those who
have preceded them , and withhold the meed of commendation . Mrs . A . nn Wansey , of Warminster , in the county of Wilts , shall take the first rank , because it pleased an overruling Providence to remove her first from this earthly stage . She yyas of
a mild , gentle , placid temper , kind and courteous to her friends , respectful to her superiors , condescending to her inferiors , and inoffensive to all . After the decease of her parents , she lived with her youngest . brother ^ the
generous and liberal-minded . Mr . Geo-Wans ^ y , perform in g to w ards * him the part of a naiost affectionate sister . She was pleased whenever she could give pleasure , and made the happiness o € those around her one principal ihgjce * dient of her own . i It deserves to be
mentioned , to her very great honour * that in the early part of life she refused several highly eligible matritt * onial overtures , for the ' sole cause of being at liberty to attend an honoured mother , and administer to her consolation in her declining years ..
In regard to the most ^ momentous of all human' concerns , she did not content herself with professing the religious faith of her family , taking it for granted that as they were right , she could not be wrong , which is but too cofnftvon ' a cSrcunrfstfeince : > on the
contrary , she read , thought and judged for hei ?^ lf > and though the arguments in , support , of those opinions vyhieh s ^ ffcJlIed orthodoxy decries , were early proposed to her , she
discovered ., no sufficient reaspn in after life to ' apubt or . ^ spei ^ V ^ eur ' trujtjx- ' VSIi ^ cpuid see nojtlj ^ ag / eith er j . us ^ ojr ' vei ^ rable . in what haye beep , \ ^ r \ p ™ Jf ^ ed tl > e ; suWime . inystories : o&tfi& ^^ faith . They appeared to . litei- ia * 0 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1822, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2519/page/6/
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