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    Pjee . # 8 , at Ztav Mfflttkmufs Idbrary > Red-Oross Street , Richard Holt , Esq ., <*{ * King ' * Road , Gray's Inn , aged 7 i years , son of the late Rev , Richard Holt , Presbyterian Minister of Dover , in Kent . As dne of the Trustees , of Dr . Wiliiams ' s Fund , he was in attendance at their Quarterl y Meeting , and , after having

    joined hi . the usual business of the day with even more than his accustomed animation , sat down tp dinner , apparently in good health , and had just commenced his meal , when he suddenly fell back in his chair and expired without a groan or a sigh , almost on the very spot where

    his friend and fellow-trustee , the late excellent Dr . Lindsay breathed his last iu a similar manner * Every expedient that esteem and friendship could devise was made use of by those around him to rekindle the spark of life , but in vain . Thus sudden was the death of this truly estimable man . To those to whom he

    was dear , the shock could not but be great . Now that it is over , however , they find more than comfort in the belief that what was to them the unexpected stroke of affliction and bereavement , was to him a change as blessed as it was in *

    stantaneous , a translation in a moment and without pain into that peaceful and happy country " where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest . " The modest and retiring character of one who never wished to leave the

    sequestered vale of life , and who , it is believed , was always guided in his conduct by far higher principles than the love of human approbation , forbids a long and laboured eulogium . It may

    not , however , be unprofitable to survivors to learn iu fe > w words , what friendship cannot but rejoice to record , that sincere piety , strict integrity , punctual exactness in the discharge of duty , were combined in the deceased with a tender *

    ness of heart which age had no power to chill , and a liberality as modest as it was generous , which found its full reward in the gratification of kind and benevolent feeling , and seemed reluctant to receive even the bare return of thanks for favours conferred without

    solicitation . With no small degree of natural shrewdness , sound common sense , and knowledge of the world , Mr . Holt possessed at the same time the greatest simplicity and purity of character , nor did his acquaintance with the errors and frailties of our species in the least degree

    abate his pity and compassion for the erring and the frail . The outward signs of feeling , though he almost always endeavoured to suppress them , would frequently appear in spite of himself to mark the deep interest which he took in every ' thing human . He was a just and

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    a good man ; and the writer of this abort tribute to his memory can form no better wish fo ^ himself or for any of the genuine mourners whom he has left behind him , than that they may resemble him in the virtues of their lives , and he linked to him after death . To the readers of the

    Monthly Repository it may be pleasing to know that he who was thus a Christian in practice , was a Unitarian in creed , a warm friend and well-wisher to the sacred cause of civil and religious liberty in every quarter of the globe ; J . H .

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    56 Obtiuary *>~ R . HvU , Bsq , —Mrs . EUmbefh Linington .

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    Dec . 29 , at Newport , Isle of Wight , aged 48 , Elizabeth , wife of Thomas , Linington . There are some who would confine the records of the departed to those only who were possessed of extraordinary endowments , and m this feeling we should participate if in order to

    render a memoir of persons less gifted interesting , it were necessary to deviate at all from the strictest regard to truth ; but the principal object of an obituary is to awaken the virtuous and pious imitation of survivors , and if the record of those not so highly distinguished should produce this effect , its most valuable end will be answered . Of this latter

    description of persons was the individual whose loss it is now our painful duty to record . At an early age she appears to have been solemnly impressed with a deep sense of the value and importance of religion . During a considerable portion of her life , however , being strongly

    tinctured with a belief in the doctrines of Calvinism , she experienced little real enjoyment from her faith in the gospel Unfortunately for her own peace , she imagined that she was not one of those individuals whom the Creator had singled out as an object of his favour : and for

    many years when she retired to rest she expected , if she were that night summonsed to depart , to awake in a place of tqrment . When a beloved child was , during this period , snatched away from her by death , the anguish she endured at the apprehension that she should never again

    behold it , she described as almost insupportable . From the distressing state of gloom in which these sentiments involved her , and under which many a gentle and delicate spirit has sunk never to rise again , or to survive only in a state less enviable than death , her vigorous mind

    was enabled to emancipate itself and she ultimately , after mature deliberation , adopted more scriptural views of the dispensations of the Most High . The happiness . she enjoyed when her mind was completely established in the distinguishing doctrines of IJnitariauism , it was

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 56, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/56/