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Though foon after reduced to the inability of moving, and 

 fuffering much, he continued to fhare the converfation of 

 his friends and relations, except during the extreme prelTure 

 of pain, or when opiates, employed to procure a difturbed 

 ileep, or relieve the body from a few pangs, produced their 

 powerful effect, and facrificed the reafoning powers and 

 the nobler faculties of the foul. On the i6th of December 

 1798, the powers of nature were exhaufted, and the vene- 

 rated author of my being expired without a groan ! 



The pen of a fon may not be calculated to record the 

 charader of an ailedionate and beloved parent ; the bias 

 of natural affection may operate too forcibly, yet the filence 

 of the perfon mofl intimately acquainted with the various 

 virtues of 'Thomas Penjia7it^ would juftly draw down the 

 reproach of ingratitude. 



His religious principles were pure and fervent, yet exempt 

 from bigotry; though firmly attached to the eftabliflied 

 church, he, by his writings and condudl, conciliated the 

 eReem of thofe of a different perfuaiion. A fteady 



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