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brought forth for her funeral. After this event, he walked about 
under the care of a couple of valuable relatives, for about five 
years, a monument of departed genius, but a picture of the most 
assiduous good manners, of perfect politeness of deportment, and 
of all the urbanities which adorn the gentleman and the scholar. 
Strange, very strange, that these manners and dispositions should 
so long survive the occasions and habits which gave them birth. 
_ But stranger still it was, that amidst the general wreck of all thought, 
and dissolution of every association of sensible ideas, a notion of 
_ religion should show itself to the last! Upon his own earnest 
_entreaty, he was allowed by his attendants to resort to the place of 
4 public worship. He was precise, collected, devout and fervent, 
~ compared with what, a few minutes before, he was without those 
"walls: he seemed as one of the just made perfect. And when he 
returned, he evinced a power of retaining somewhat of the com- 
forts, as well as the ideas, which God had bestowed from His holy 
place. 
-“Tndeed the religious sentiment was always uppermost with the 
; good doctor. And in his brightest days, though the classics of 
3 Greece, Rome, and Britain were present to his fancy, and enlivened 
and enriched his conversation, yet the sacred Scriptures were the 
4 topics of his delight, and the object of his veneration. And as his 
; quotations of his Virgil and Milton bore testimony to the elegance 
of his taste and the fervour of his genius, so, when Job and Isaiah 
were brought forward, he showed what his imagination would aspire 
at in the ranges of sublimity. In philosophical disquisitions, the 
fiat of God he pronounced to be the last link in the chain of effects 
‘and causes; and to the Word of God he bowed as to the first 
“moving power in the system of moral action. In the ordinary 
_ occurrence of good things, he never failed to give God the praise ; 
and in the more solemn dispensation, he closed his observations, 
‘or repressed his feelings, by a purpose of resignation to God’s will. 
Thus lived and thus died this great and good man.” 
When Crosthwaite Church was restored by the munificence of 
the late James Stanger, Esq., a very neat marble tablet was erected 
