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    Should the period ever arrive when , as the Spectator ( No . 610 ) conjectured of superior beings , mankind shall esteem " the evening- walk of a

    wise man more illustrious than the march of a general at the head of a hundred thousand men , " the name of Robert Raikes cannot fail

    to receive public honours . But nations are 4 C slowly wise and meanly jusU" We expend pur marble on war-ministers and their military machines * , worthies , " according to the poet , Who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide , to ovfr-run Large countries , and in fields great battles win , Great cities by assault ;

    while we have little to bestow on renown acquired , Without ambition , war or violence , By deeds of peace , by wisdom eminent . Yet the narrie of Robert Raikes will not be soon forgotten among

    those who have diffused light over the dark places of the earthy full of the habitations of cruelty . Nor , comparing what he found with what he left , as to provisions for the education of the people , will

    it be deemed extravagant if we apply to the Inventor of the Sun . day Schooly the line inscribed , in the Cathedral of the Metropolis , to the memory of its great Architect ,

    oi monumentum quceris , circumspicc *

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    serves , I think , a further notice ^ especially on account of same of the pursuits to which he attached himself . I had a very slight acquaintance , with that gentleman ? having met him in 1 792 ^ when we were both young men , -among , the

    friends of civil and religious liberty ^ whom the events of that period brought together . Of hib personal history , however , I know nothing but what I have derived from the Obituary of the Gent .

    Mag , ( 1797 , vol . 67 pp . 252 and 345 , ) and of which the following is the substance . Thomas Christie was the son of a merchant of Montrose , and first employed in his fat her *» counting house . Preferring the

    medical profession , he became a pupil of Dr . Simons , of Westminster , and afterwards passed two winters at the University of Edinburgh- He was at this period a correspondent of Lord Buchan , Dr . Simons and Mr . John Nichols .

    Travelling to the Continent for improvement , 1 , apprehend , in the profession he had adopted , he passed some time at Paris , from which he returned on accepting an offer to become a partner in a mercantile house in London , and in consequence relinquished his medical pursuits .

    In 1785 , Mr . Christie published , without his name , in 1 vol . Hmo . C 4 Miscellanies ; Philosophical , Medical and Moral , vol . i" In 1790 , he printed a 4 C Sketch of the New Constitution of France , ' * in two

    large folio sheets , inscribed to the Duke of Rochefoucault , In Dec . 1792 he returned to Paris , having the same year married a lady who survived him . At Paris , he found the new constitution new-modelled , and was engaged by the Nau 4 . F

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    Brief Account nf Mr . Thomas Christie * 5 S 5

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    Tlrief Account of Mr . Thomas Christie . ' . _ Sir , May 2 , 1811 . The late Mr . Thomas Christie , Mentioned by his uncle in your M- Hep . for March , ( p . 129 ) de .

    i " If you would see his monument , took around / 3

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 585, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/9/