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RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROY.
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Rajah Rammohun Roy.
RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROY .
The death of this eminent and admirable man has caused a feeling of sorrow as extensive as it is deep . He is mourned not only by those who enjoyed his friendship , or were admitted to his society , and who witnessed the benevolence of his feelings , and the gentleness of his manners ; but also by those who knew him simply by the hearing of the ear . Publicly as well as privately he was formed to touch men ' s hearts , and to draw forth towards
himself their sympathies . His > history is thai of one who seemed raised tip by Divine Providence for the accomplishment of great purposes . He came out from among his kindred and his father ' s house , as one intended to lead them to the formation of a larger and holier bond of brotherhood , and to the promise of a fuller and more glorious ijiiwitanc ^ i . than . it had yet entered into their imagination to conceive ; and many a tongue has taken uj > the lamentation of Christ ' s disciples : — We thought that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel : ' for men naturally looked to India as the field to which his ardent exertions would after a
season be again successfully directed . He is gathered to the number of the illustrious departed . His work is finished .. But his memory and his example will long survive , a blessing to his countrymen , a cause for rejoicing to . all the lovers of mankind . ' My ancestors / writes Rammohun Roy , in a letter to Mr . Sandford
Arnot , which appeared together with some notices of the deceased by that gentleman , in the Athenaeum of October 5 , '; virereJBral »^ jats . of a high Ofder , " aiia from ^ time immemorial were 3 evoted to the rel igious duties of their race , down to my fifth progenitor ; who , about 140 years ago , gave up spiritual exercises for worldly pursuits-and aggrandizement . His descendants ever since have followed his example . '
He was born in the year 1780 , or a few vears before , in the district of Bordouan , where his father Ram Kfont Roy possessed some landed property . .. \ ' In conformity with the . usage of my paternal race , and the wish of my father I-studied the Persian and Arabic languages , these being accomplishments indispensable to those who attached themselves to the courts of the Mohammedan princes : and agreeably to the usage of my maternal relations , I devoted myself to the study of Sanscrit and . the theological works written in it , which contain the body of Hindu literature , law , and religion /* * Letter .
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THE UNITARIAN CHRONICLE .
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VOL , II , Y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/1/
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