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    a jjd furnished by education with the amplest i » eans for their development , he had already excited the fondest anticipations of future eminence and usefulness in all those by whom his worth was known . Every advantage of instruction and excitement which could promote their growth

    and hasten their expansion into the full bloom of excellence , seemed combined to fulfil the most sang-uitfe wishes of his friends , when a sickness , as apparently casual in its origin as it was rapid in its progress and consummation , all at © nee threw a cloud on the fair prospect , and has left to bis sorrowing * survivors only a deep

    and painful conviction of the inscrutable purposes of Providence , and the pensive memory of virtues which are now no more . To dwell on the many amiable and excellent qualities of those whom we have loved , and retrace the lineaments of a friendship , whose sweet and genial influence once shed happiness on the social

    hour , is a pleasing " , but , at the same time , a delicate and responsible task ; and yet , to pass wholly in silence so much that was truly good , so much that must awaken our love , and may provoke imitation , to be denied the gratification of paying * a slight tribute to the memory of departed worth , would be a privation at once painful and

    improper . Perhaps no one ever had a more tho-Ytrughly warm , benevolent , and guileless heart , than the friend whose untimelj death it is the sad office of these pages to

    record 5 had move of that universal rectitude and purity of feeling , which guided him aright , even in his gayest and most thoughtless hours , when imagination was on the wing- , and reason had least direct influence on his actions . For an

    occasional warmth of temper , tlie result of a sanguine temperament and enthusiastic ardour of mind , and which his cooler judgment would have taught him to repress , he more than atoned by the toial absence of every tincture of malevolence and selfishness , and by a generous and uniform readiness to acknowledge himself

    » n error , when convinced , in his calmer woods , that he was so . Of his intellectual character , if a friend m { * y be permitted to speak , perhaps eletfancc of taste and quickness of perception x vore the distinguishing * features . More disposed and better suited to the lively a »< cWaut illustration of the meaning of

    others than to striking out new and original combinations of Ins own , or engaging tn patient and laborious research , his mind was perhaps rather acute than comprehensive ; bis faste rather literary than Pjulosop hicai . But he was young- ; " and ! " 8 mind , elegant and well-informed , as certainl y was , migrht have contained AVI Ml I * Ml UgerniSj yet undeveloped and unk «« vr n , which , had bis life been spared , migt » t ha . v © ripened , by the g-entl «* dews

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    Oct . 23 , after . a few days' illness , aged 65 , Jane , the wife of Mr . Richard Manlby , Sen . of Chowbent , Lancashire . She wag tlie mother of a numerous family of

    children , twelve of whom arrived at years of maturity , and all , excepting * the eldest daughter , who died about twelve months before her mother , now survive her . She was followed to the g * rave by the afflicted and bereaved partner of her joys and cares in life , accompanied by hi $ eleven children , ten sons and daughters-in-law , and several of his grand-children , altogether

    forming' a large group of family mourners , rarely witnessed . The sight was awfully impressive to those who viewed it . To the last week of her life , " she looked well to the ways of her household . Her children

    rise up and call her blessed ; her husband also , and he praiseth . her . " As an industrious and affectionate wife and mother , a kind and generous neighbour , she has left an example worthy the imitation of her numerous family and of all who knew her . B . It . D .

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    Obituary *—Mr . Jm Wellbeloved . —Mrs . Mauley . —Mrs . Cannon . 705

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    and mild suii-shiue of letters and philosophy , into still nobler fruits , and given the promise of even a fairer harvest . But these , alas ( will never blossom for us } transplanted , we believe , and religion

    is our glorious pledge , to more ' genial skies and a happier clime . Delightful , hawever , as are the anticipations of faith , and animating" the hope of a final and indissoluble union , yet still it is a sweet and mournful satisfaction to remember what

    once he was , to recall those mild engaging' manners , that gentle and benevolent spirit , those pure and pious dispositions , which once charmed and made happy the wide circle of mourners , who now deplore his loss 3 it is soothing to have offered these last dues to a friendship which mow lives only in remembrance $ . Accipe fraterno multtim manantia fletu , Attiue in perpetuum , frater ave atque vale— J . J . T . ¦¦¦

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    Nov . 3 , in the 41 st year of her age , Mary , the eldest daughter of Mr . Cannon , of CIjLowbent , Lancashire . Of a delicate habit of body from childhood , she bore the sufferings , generally attendant on such

    a . constitution , with a degree of fortitude and patience truly Christian . During * the last spring- and summer , while disease was evidently hastening- on her dissolution , and her sufferings , at times , must have been very acute , she neither murmured nor complained , but was always placid , and

    resigned to the will of God . Educated in the principles of Unitarianism , they became the choice or * her maturer age , and the foundations qf her faith and hope . Rarely was she absent from her place of worship . Those * unfavourable changes of the seasons , and those trifling bodily ailments

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/53/