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and from that place , be amassed a knowledge of men and things rarely found in persons similarly situated . Latterly he participated in such innocent enjoyments as must have recalled pleasing recollections of his younger days , and for which his active habits and serene state of mind
peculiarly adapted him ; — the superintendence of his boat and mackerel seines agreeably occupied his leisure hours . From his extensive information on meteorological phenomena , and his longcontinued , attentive observance of nature ' s workings , his loss is regretted by all stations of society ;—the man of rank
and the humble fisherman had alike recourse to him as an almost unerring guide on the state of the weather , and such other subjects as are connected with maritime affairs ; and his great affability , interesting reminiscences , and acute mind , have endeared him to many moving in exalted spheres of life . Though glad to extend the hand of
Christian charity to all religious denominations , Mr . Fawckner ' s sentiments were decidedly Unitarian . Upwards of forty years was he a meraber , and during a very long period an active member , of the " Old Meeting-House" of this place , where his loss is irreparable , aud
recollections of him will be cherished long Indeed . A diligent student of the Bible , and especially of the New Testament , his arguments were invariably marked by solidity , general acquaintance with his subject , and freedom from party prejudice . In the promotion of all those schemes which had the extension of his
religious opinions for their object , he was useful and zealous , and to his exertions we are in some measure indebted for the success of our cause in this neighbourhood , recorded in your number for May last . In his attendance on public worship he was particularly regugular , derived the greatest comfort and satisfaction On his death-bed from the sentiments he entertained , and our very worthpastorwho frequentl visited
y , y him during his illness , expresses himself peculiarly gratified with the serenity and composure of his last moments . The Rev . W . James , our usual minister , improved his death to a numerous , respectable , and deeply-attentive audience , in a most impressive and practical discourse on the text— "He being dead , yet speaketh . " May he be a participator in eternal felicity , and his memory be blessed * A Member of the Congregation .
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Miss Judith Elizabeth Rodick . At Gateacre , near Liverpool , Judith Elizabeth , the oldest daughter of Mr . Thomas Rodick , aged nine years and nine months . To singularly precocious talents , and manners becoming the age of womanhood , she united the most kindly dispositions , and fondly endeared herself to all who knew her . On Thursday evening the 17 th , she was apparently in full health and spirits , and on Saturday , at midnight , she was no more .
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500 Obituary . —William Frost , Esq . —Miss Judith Elizabeth RocticJL
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William Frost , Eso / , Jane 3 , at Bury St . Edmunds , in the 80 th year of his age , William Frost ,
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Esq ., whose fondness for retirement occasioned his being known but to few 5 jbut whose original and striking opinions on the great topics of the day have frer quently extended beyond the circle of his intimate acquaintance . He had read
considerably , but he had thought more than he had read , and his ideas ou all subjects , and manner of illustrating them , were peculiarly his own . Although educated in the gloomy school of Calvin , he at an early period of his life renounced the creed of his nurse and
priest . He knew , however , how to ser parate the chaff from the wheat , and abided by the sound precepts of Chrisr tian morals : and though his speculations may have sometimes carried him a conT siderable way into the region of doubt
yet his mind never harmonized with that of the scoffer . And he strongly expressT ed his indignation when he suspected that any one had undertaken the office of a Christian , teacher who was not fully impressed with the truth and importance of the principles he professed .
Having never sought the acquisition of knowledge with any view to display , he was not , in his communication of it , governed by motives of vanity . With a mind capable of pursuing fancied analogies , his scrupulous veracity
prevented his indulging in a vein which men of a witty turn will frequently practise " without compunction , at the expense of truth ; for he never merely played with words , believing , with Bacon , that they ought to be used as " coin , * ' and uot as " counters . " To these characteristics it
may be added , that under a somewhat severe exterior , he was remarkably kindhearted , but exercised his beneficeuce with the justest discrimination . Indeed , it may be repeated of him what was said of a distinguished philanthropist , that though in the opinion of some he was hardly to be classed among Christians , yet that in reality he was one of the best .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 500, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/68/
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