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    the s ^ me . comity , refusing to hold both the benefices from noble and conscientious acrtfples . For more than half a century , he performed the duties of the mimaterial function with a truly Christian

    2 eal . His discourses from , the pulpit were plain , perspicuous , and energetic . To the accomplishments of a schol ar , he added qualities far more estimable , tanttity of life , purity of manners , iihaffected humility , apd roost diffusive beneficence . This monument was

    erectpd to the memory of their beloved fat her by his affectionate thiJdfen . " In the letter' from Bath , Mr . Watson is said to have been " the

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    A > ECD 6 TE . OF STERNE .

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    To the Editor of the Monthly Repository .

    SIB ^ IVcm , Shropshire . I was not so much surprised as probably rrjost of your readers at the mortifying account whjph has been published in your work , ( p . p . ) of the brutality pf Sterne to his mother . For , above forty

    years ago , as I was travelling in a coach from Bath to London , jny companion a Doctor Marriot , who was his near neighbour , gave \ XiC such a character of the man , as filled me with unfavourable

    impressions of him ever since . Being then ^ ypung man , and like most other young men being too forward to shew my opinion of men and books , 1 began to express my bigtv admiration of the

    waitings of Sterne , and fo pass unqualified eulogiurns upon him , as a man possessed of fhe finest feelings and philanthropy . As soon as I had ended my frothy

    declamation , the doctor very ilacidly told me , that I did not £ jnow the man as well as he did , Jjat he was his very near neigh-> our , ar * d that of all the men fte

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    friend of Lyttleton , of Bishop Law aud of Sterne , several of whose letters are in the possession of his family . " A person of his character might admire the talents of Sterne , but could scarcel y choose him fora friend . Indeed

    it appears from the extracts of his letters which jou have published , that Mr . W . could justl y appreciate the moral reputation of the author of tile " SentU mer ^ al Journey /*

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    ever knew , he was the most devoid of the feelings of humanity or of every thing that we call sympathy . As one proof of this

    the doctor told me that his daugh ' ter had sorne acquaintance with Miss Sterne , and therefore that she frequently passed an afternoon at his house , that Miss Sterne

    was subject to violent epileptic fjts , that she had been lately seizecj with one of these which was accompanied with such alarming symptoms as made him and his daughter apprehend that she was

    dying , that they therefore sent to Mr > Sterne to apprize him of the circumstance , and to come to them immediately . After waiting for some time in anxious expectation , the gentleman made his appearance , and seeing his daughter

    agonized upon the floor , and seemingly ' ready to qxpire , he cojdly observed , that she wpu . ld be well again presently , ajid that he could not stop a moment , being engaged to play the first fiddle at Xoik that night . Th y ^

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    3 T 6 ? Anecdote of Sternz .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1808, page 376, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2394/page/24/