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    HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

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    » Memoir of the late Rev . J . S Bucfcminster , of Boston , in America * ; Dudley ^ Sept ^ S , 1 & 14 . ' ¦ SlR , ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ v ' . ¦ .

    Through the kindness of a friand , I have been favoured with # o op- ? portuhity of reading a volume of Sermons , by the late Rey . J , S , Buckminster , of Boston , in America . There is reason to believe

    that not more than four copies of the work—which was printed at Boston a few months ago—have at present fouiid their way , and that with considerable difficulty , to this country . The sermons are evidently the productions of an

    original and a finely accomplished mind : as specimens at once of powerful reasoning and splendid , affecting eloquence , I think they have seldom , if ever , been surpassed . ; Prefixed to the volume is a memoir of the amiable au-r

    thor , written , as I am informed , by Mr . Thatcher , a minister at Boston ; who , to use his own words , even now when time has interposed -to subdue all the more powerful emotions of grief * de-

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    lights to recal the hours he has passed with Mr . Buqkminster , and to dwell on those traits which he loved ^ while his lamented friend was living , and whic ^ deat h canrjot efface from his remembrance /'

    —I have great pleasure in transqribing the supatance pf the Memoir for insertion in the Monthly Repository . It will be read , I am persuaded ^ by all to whom the interests of truth and virtue

    are dear , with many feelings of tenderness and regret . Young persons who are preparing themselves for the Christian ministry may

    possibly learn from it to estimate their time at its proper value in early life , —it may serve to warm their hearts with the same generous ardour for the extension of know .

    ledge and happiness ;—and in the character of this exemplary Christian they may see the great ends to which all their intellectual attainments should be finally applied . Those " whose thread of life has run even" with that of Mr .

    Buckminster , and who are placed in nearly the same circumstances , while thev are astonished at the extent and the result of his la-

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    THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY . . . OF Theology and General Literature , « *

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    No . CVI . OCTOBER . [ Vol . IX .

    History And Biography.

    HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY .

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    VOi ^ ix . 4 G

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/1/