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    states and kingdoms . She was fond of study , and devoted much of her time to reading , and to the improvement of her talents . Thus it appeared that she possessed 4 t wisdom ; not that kind of short-sigtited wisdom , which , when combined with an undue

    attachment to the things of time and sense , is "foolishnesswith God" but the true justifiable wisdom of this world ;—without being * proud of it , without glorying in it , but rendering Ihe glory to " the Giver of every good and perfect < nft . " That she did not rest here , but

    added to all u religious wisdom * is further evident , from her preferring a life of comparative solitude , with the chosen partner of her joys and sorrows , and a few select friends , to the bustle and parade of public life in courts and assemblies . Had she been a votary of

    vanity , or of a premature ambition , this would not have been the case . Pomp and publicity are necessary , in a certain degree , in high stations , but they were not immediately necessary to her , and therefore she wisely declined them . To her penetrating mind , ** the post of honour was a private station . " So the summer sun does not

    at once overtake the darkness of the night , but veils his bright beams in a radiant cloud , or sends before him as his harbinger , the lucid twilight , from which he gradually emerges on our

    astonished view , diffusing joy and gladness all around him . —But this bright sun is set , ere it was yet day , and shall appear again on our horizon no more for ever !

    But , that the amiable subject of our meditations was in the possession of religious wisdom * is still further manifest , from her punctual observance of the Ldrd s day * her regular attendance on religious duties , her promotion of religious and moral education among the poor , and her private studies of this kind . These facts are so well

    authenticated , that they require no further proof . Her example was good , and she promoted the cause of virtue by her example ; and wherever the outward expressions of religious wisdom are

    combined with virtuous practice , we necessarily conclude the character to be perfect , in its measure and degree , and render it all that homage and respect ,, which it so jttstly deserves at our hands .

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    Such a character , my friends , and in such circumstances , speaks to us all , in language the most clear and explicit . It animates us while living , and even from the confines of the tomb it hath

    power to charm ! It speaks to the yonng 9 to guard them from the snares of vice , and a false confidence in the things of earth aud time , and to encourage them in the paths of piety and virtue . It speaks to the aged * for , if

    so much has been done "in the green tree , what shall be done in the dry ?" It speaks to the rich * to warn them of the instability of their earthly possessions , and to stimulate them to the most active exertions in the cause

    of public virtue and prosperity , of humanity and benevolence ; and to the poor , to shew them the folly as well as the iniquity of the passions of envy and malignity , fretfulness and repining , by furnishing a striking and awful instance the natural equality

    of man , in all the leading circumstances of his being . It speaks emphatically to the august family with which she was more immediately connected , and especially to her royal parents , and to her deeply afflicted and affectionate consort , now in a situation of mind ,

    which 1 dare not touch upon 1 Their afflictions are peculiar and sacred 5 may the most sacred consolations be with them and abounding ! And it speaks emphatically to the nation at large ; to rulers and senators , and statesmen and politicians , as well as to

    the great body of the people ; for our loss may be regarded as a national calamity , and a national visitation * though we have no authority to pronounce it a national judgment . Be zealous and active , O ye governors of our Zioiviu cherishing and defending the genuine

    principles of that civil constitution , which ye have sworn to preserve and maintain ! " Mark ye well her bulwarksf consider her palaces * and repair her foundations , " that she may continue to be—I will not say , ' the arbiter of surrounding nations , ' for that is a

    groundless and unwarrantable assumption ;—but , that she may be a joy and a praise throughout the whole earth ; and a bright pattern for imitation , as well as a permanent source of consolation and happiness to her own people , unto the latest generations ! » " Jn this great work , it would have been my delightful employment to have

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    166 Close of a Sermon on a late Melancholy Occasion .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 166, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/14/