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ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF THE REV. T. BEJLSHAM. *
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We are told that it was not the custom of the ancients to sacrifice to heroes until after sunset . But it was their custom to sacrifice to them thpn
and if we imitate their forbearance;—if in the life-time of those whose mental heroism helps to clear the world of the monsters of ignorance , error , and su perstition , we suffer our gratitude to accumulate in our hearts , year after year , unexpressed , at least in all its fulness and fervour—it well becomes us also , when the night has closed in upon our benefactors , and they sleep in the grave ' darkness , to complete the imitation , and bring our offerings of respect and gratitude , a manly and a Christian homage , to the memory of those who were distinguished for piety , worth , and usefulness . It is due to them that their names should at length be coupled with that well-earned praise , which cannot now be considered as flattery , and which there is no longer the possibility of their shewing , by subsequent inconsistency , was prematurely and injudiciously bestowed . It is due to ourselves that we enrich our minds with the images of men whom we may safely venerate ; who " being dead yet speak , " and that more impressively than could ever living voice ; and the contemplation of whose lives and labours stimulates
* A Sermon , ou occasion of the Death of the ReV . Thomas Belsham , preached at the Chapel in Essex Street , November 22 , 1829 . By the Rev . Thomas Madge . Hunter . 8 vo . Courage and Confidence in the Cause of Christian Truth : a Sermon , preached at the New Gravel-Pit Meeting-House , Hackney , on Sunday , November 29 , in reference to the Death of the Rer . Thomas Belshain , who departed this Life November 11 , 1829 , in the Eightieth Year of his Age . Together with the Address at his Interment in Buuhul Fields , November 20 . By Robert Aspland . Hunter , Eaton , aud Teuton and Fox . 8 vo .
A Humble Tribute to the Memory of the Rev . Thomas Belsham , who departed this Life ou Tuesday , November 11 , 1829 , in the Eightieth Year of his Age * Hunter . 12 mo .
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FEBRUARY , 1830 .
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VOL . IV . G
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW $ ERIES , No . XXXVIII .
On The Character And Writings Of The Rev. T. Bejlsham. *
ON THE CHARACTER AND WRITINGS OF THE REV . T . BEJLSHAM . *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1830, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2581/page/1/
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