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courtesy , andas sacmonly . We enter not into the views of those members of the committee who passed the resolutions , neither do we acknowledge that any apology is required from u"s , except it be for this one thing that we suffered -such a discus-sion to be ope ned-unde l ^ -an—anGHymous—signature . We leave it to our
correspondent to rebut the accusation of falsehood and-absurdity in his own name ; for , since angry feelings are stirred , there can now be only open discussion . We will only further say , that we offered room in our pages for an answer to the letter of Asmodeus ; but the majority of the committee deemed it infra dignitatem to rebut ' false and absurd charges . '
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accumulated extensive wealth , which he carefully employed as the means of public usefulness . To his intimate friends it was well known that he regarded every increase of worldly property as entailing on him an additional responsibility , and that he —fel-t-gr-ateful- ^ not-only ^ on-aeeount-of his being thus enabled to increase the comforts and importance of his family ; but also that he was
rendered instrumental in furnishing the means of profitable employment to numerous dependents , and of essentially promoting the benefit of the community . What is more , no increase of wealth or consequence had any influence in altering the original simplicity of his manners , or in estranging him from any of the friends of his youth ; nor did the commercial contests in which he
engaged ever prevent him from expressing a lively " arid benevolent interest in the successes of any honourable' competitor . By at ten - lively availing himself of every means of acquiring practical knowledge , he equally succeeded in the acquisition of mental treasures . His extensive commercial connexions
( naturally enabled him to gam ah extensive Knowledge of mankind . His taste for intellectual pursuits led ( him to cultivate the acquaintance of men of information and habits- of thought , while th-e clearness of his pfcepion , andthe ^ raQtic"lil 3 hfawdness of his rnind , caused him to acquire so ample a store of
information , and to appreciate so correctly its real importance , that few enjoyed the pleasure of his society without receiving as much benefit as they were able to . communicate . His enlight ened spirit of patriotism , and his constant readiness to promote any
measure for tihe public good , rendered him an important ma ember of society ; and the influence which he possessed in the district where he resided , was steadily exerted in the cause of constitutional liberty , in the exte-naion of useful knowledge , and in promoting the benefit of suffering humanity .
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August 2 , 1833 . —^ Vt Hull , after an illness of a few hours , aged 62 years , Mr . W . Darley , of Thorne , Yorkshire . The practice which most religioUs commuriities haveladdpted of recording the decease of their principal members is both natural
and becoming ; and when { as in the present instance ) the individual has been 'distinguished by uprightness of character , strength of intellect , and perseverance in a course of extensive usefulness , an important moral lesson may be derived from a brief record of his life and character . The
subject of the present notice was born of respectably ; jjar ; ent $ ; , b : tit in no elevated rank oH society . At an early age he entered on the active business of a commercial life , and in consequence did not enjoy the advantages of an early scholastic education . He soon , however , 'displayed the superiority which the high
endowments of nature are almost sure to confer when ( as in hirti ) they are accompanied with integrity of { principle , and directed by a spirit of persevering industry . The consequence was , that he fully succeeded in elevating himself to a station that xnay justly be regarded high in every sense of the word . By a successful career of commercial enterprise he
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/31/
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