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    510 Review . —Life of Mr . George Walker .

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    the 21 st of April he died . The last act of his life was an attempt to express himself in prayer ; but the power of articulation was gone , yet , with his hands folded on his breast , he remained absorbed in fervent devotion ; dying as he had lived , with a mind di ~ rected towards God ami another world . These few particulars may mark

    in some degree the stages of his useful and distinguished life , may faintly trace the course of this ^ xtraordinary man , and may recol some few dates of which memory had been forgetful * But who shall

    attempt to recal to the affectionate remembrance x > f his friends , the nameless graces of his artless and excellent character ! He was indeed a man : made to be be * lov ^ ed , and they who knew him best loved him most . Ifr all his

    public and private walks , he exhibited a form of wind of simple native dignity , a character devoid of guilt ? , a temper warm , yet free from ail enmity . He owed none of his greatness to contrivance or study ^ he was perfectly natu ml

    and uTtaffectiedj and though aU ways open &nd honest in the proi fe&sion of his sontiancnts , he air , * rogated ¦¦ no superiority , nor indeed se ^ ed conscious of any . He

    woul 4 pslss in a mofrieht from the fn ^ t ^ jfctere ^ of coiDi ^ Verseiioii , in which probably be hkjL ^ tt ^ aged with ail the Warmth of ftig ; xfeeKi 4 gsi itnd all the iiiijpie ^ tugaity of hi ^ elqq ^ ence , to Cares £ an in fell t , et t&mixJn the sports of thiiahood . *—That such a mati

    should have ever inet tvith estrafrgehient atld coldness from those , of whom better things might h&ve been expected 1 Yet he Was occasionally liable to prejudice

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    and misapprehension , for he had all the carelessness of a great and generotfs tniud . t Reputation , ap . plaiise , esteem , ? affection , and love foUqtveel jbim . unsolicited and of course ; but no consideration for any or nil of these jwouldrfagcve made him pursue them as fin end > or wo ^ ild fur a moment have

    turned him to the right or to the left ; from the high road of his dtity . Bat th ^ limits of this article * oblige us to 'conclude , and to forego tlie pleasure of attempting to give ^ ii estimate of hfe ch aracter as a diyiae , a mathematician ,

    a pdiitici ^ n , and a laaap . This 15 the less necessary from ? the highly characteristic § , fitl discriminating eulogy of Mr * V ^ akefi el d , the sketches by Ur » rRees j and Mr . Taylor ^ and tlje v ^ ry ^ able view given in the Mwaote ^ / Tke general etfecutipii of the Memoir is

    highly creditable to tii ^ literary talents and filial pi ^ ty pf its author ; O ^ ir opinion of its meri ts i » seen in the literal # ae > vhich We have made ctf u > Mo ^ t

    willingly ttOttltiL we eKtt ^ ct many parts of it , ; which ; haye struck us ^ s favou rable specimens of qorrect observation of Original thinking , of accurate discrimination , of impartial judgment , and of good composition . In particular th 0

    passages at pages > # 6—* Q 6 i 73—76 , 98—205 . 206—212 , aye deserving of the highest praise * But there an * some faults which w ^ shall be ^ lad t 6 see corrected in the next edition . The political speeches should have been p laOe 4 in the Appendix * They delay the interest of the narrative . We

    should have l > een glad also to havie found there some of the many Nottingham Petitions and Addresses drawi ! u |> by Mr . Walker .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1810, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2409/page/38/