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each ? succtedmg one ( including of coiuse tlidae yet to cotne , which Mr . Riitt can now have no difficulty in arranging and Specifying ) ; and in behalf of tfaersubscribera I would solicit from him , when he next publishes , a series
of second labels , bearing the contents of « ach volume : the want of this often occasions difliculty-in consultation , and consequently a loss of time and labour * L . CARPENTER ,
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Birmingham , Sir , December % 1825 . MAY I be permitted to offer a little advice to those of your
correspondents who occasionally furnish matter for the " Obituary" in your valuable Repository , viz . to observe * strictly , the following rule , — " Not to let the value of character
and its influence on society be lost , by putting upon a par with those whose exemplary virtues , tried and manifested in their journey through life , and whose high and striking qualities of mind and heart are subjects of interest with the public—such as
walk not out of the ordinary course , who , however their memories may deserve the respect of private friendship , are not entitled to any higher praise /* I have" been led to obtrude myself on your notice from * now and then , witnessing in * ' Obituaries / ' sketches of character of individuals with whom
I have been personally and sometimes intimately acquainted , where I could not but perceive a sad departure from truth in the delineation , and so overrated an estimate of conduct and character , as to prove to me how little are such partial sketches to be relied
on . Upon you , Sir , as an Editor , I could not charge the want of discretion or judgment in the selection of objects , because to you it does not belong to knd > w the merit of the different
characters that may be transmitted to yon for insertion ; but I would certainly wish to recommend to such as may lose frienda , whom they esteemed and lovfcd * to cherish the feelings which
Friendship inspires , and privately to cultivate lave far the memory of departed worth , without being drawn aside bjr an overweening' partiality , anciled , thereby , to expose ( through the press ) to remark and animadver-
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sion , those , of whom other * «* a ^ hare farmed an opinion in some respects different , and frequently more correct than their own * My view of the subject is ,-deeidedljv to let ordinary characters alone , to leave the unobtrusiveness of modest worth to influence such as may be
the silent observers of its loveliness , and to eulogize those only who have been highly distinguished by their talents , integrity and patient endurance of privation and suffering , -&nd who may be fairly held up as models of imitation to all the world . P . T .
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Memoir 8 of Samuel Pepys > Esq . 74 i
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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq . ( Concluded from p . 673 . ) THE carelessness of Charles II . left his household in great disorder and put him to great shifts .
" Sept . 2 , 1667 . I dined with Sir G . Carteret , with whom dined Mr . Jack Ashburnham and Dr . Creeton , who I observe to be a mast good man and a scholar . In discourse at dinner concerning- the change of men's humours and fashions touching meats , Mr . Ashburnham told us that he
remembers since the only fruit in request , and eaten by the King and Queen at table as the best fruit , was the Katharine Payre , though they knew at the time other fruits of France and our own country . After dinner comes in Mr . Townsend ; and there I was witness of a horrid rateing
which Mr . Ashburnham , as one of the Grooms of the King's Bed Chamber , did give him for want of linen for the King ' s person ; which he § wore was not to be endured , and that the King would not endure it , and that the King his father would have hanged his wardrobe man should he have
been served so ; the King having at this day no hankerchers , and but thFee bands to his neck , he swore . Mr . Townsend pleaded want of money and the owing of the linen draper
^ 5000 , and that he hath of late got many rich things made , beds and sheets and saddles , without money , and that he can go no further ; but still this old man ( indeed like an old
loving servant ) did cry out for the King ' s person to be neglected . But when he tvas gone , Townsend told me that it is the Grooms' taking * Uway
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1825, page 741, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2543/page/37/
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