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the preacher thus speitks of him : 11 Many were the qualities in the character of this amiable young man , which gave him a claim to peculiar interest and regard while living , and which now render his death the subject of such uncommon regret . He possessed a sweetness of disposition , a delicate and cultivati d
sensibility , a tender regard to the feelings of others , a solicitude for the welfare and happiness of those around him , an equanimity of temper , a warmth of affection , which rendered him beloved by all . The firmness of his principles , and the rectitude of his heart , discovered itself in his conduct . His friends dwell with
smoothing complacency ou his useful and blameless life , his fraternal kindness , and his filial affection and duty . This eminently excellent young man it has pleased God to take from us , when our hope was firmest , and his prospects of usefulness unclouded . We mourn that such
a course should be so short . But , perhaps , we ought not so much to regret that his days were so few , as to rejoice that they were so well spent , and that he was spared so long . To be the centre of so many influences , to awaken through so large a circle sentiments of affection and
esteem , to Jive in the hearts of friends , and die amidst general and unaffected lamentation , surely are not evidences of brief existence . * Honourable age is not that which standeth in length of ^ ime , nor which is measured by number of years ; but wisdom is the grey hair to man , and an unspotted life is old age . '"
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Mrs . Mary Luckcock . On Friday , April 17 , aged 62 , Mary , the wife of Mr . James Luckcock , of Edgbaston . That elerated rank , highly-gifted talent , extraordinary perseverance , unbounded philanthropy , or the ludicrous display of human eccentricity , should alone be allowed to be suitable subjects for public obituaries , while the meek and humble virtues of domestic
endearment and social intercourse should be discarded as void of interest or application , is surely a perversion of the dictates of common sense , and of the best feelings which adorn and ennoble the human breast . The important purposes
of biography are to instruct by the force of example , to allure to imitation by the display of acknowledged and useful merit , or to deter from folly by the faithful representation of its injurious consequences . In proportion , then , as these appeals are made to the many
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rather than to the few , in that propor * tion must be their utility and worth . The humble garden and the flowery meadow are accessible to all , while the majestic avenue and the superb mansion are exclusively enjoyed by their possessors , comparatively few in number , and ofteu with no participation of . social delight .
The subject of this memoir may well be admitted as a practical illustration of the correctness of this principle . With such a limited education as the times fifty years au ; o afforded , and with which the public mind was then satisfied , she possessed none of the superficial and tinsel acquirements of modern taste and meretricious refinement , which , by
substituting the means for the end , debase the mind instead of improving it ; but the whole scope and tendency of the instruction she received was to qualify her for tiie future and important duties of wife , parent , and friend . Brought up in habits of close but comfortable economy and diligence , she early in life identified these feelings with her existence , and when afterwards released from their
importunate claims by the smiles of fortune , she never discarded the principle , but made it subservient to her increased powers of benevolence and chanty . Her conjugal attachment was ardent , faithful , and accommodating ; never , in the course of a connexion of four and thirty years , having caused a word or a feeling of
discord to pass between herself and her beloved partner , which a smile or a sweet sealing of the lips did not instantly cancel and remove . Asa mother , her surviving and grown up children can well attest her varied excellencies ; and if sometimes the maternal feeling might swerve a little towards the weakness of
indulgence , yet , contrasted with the rigid duties of paternal controul , they harmonized the whole , and produced , perhaps , the befet effects . The union of their hearts and conditions , with the sincere regret for their irreparable loss , is the best comment upon her affectionate and always well iutentioned sensibilities . By her friends her amiable qualities were duly appreciated . She was little skilled
in professions of attachment , but full well they knew that her head , her feet , her hands , and her heart , were always ready and devoted to their service . Her generous sympathies were not displayed iu sighs and unavailing moans , but her energies were always at command to soothe and alleviate distress by that controul over her own feelings that left her in full possession of her powers , both ipcntal and corporeal ; and while her
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Obituary . — Mrs . Mary Lttcftcock . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1829, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2573/page/73/
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