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employments are now separated ; and the occu- 

 piers may think themselves happy, if they can, 

 in their solitary succession, in some degree at- 

 tain the perfection which stamped his combined 

 career. The death of such a man, at such a period 

 of his labours, and at such a moment, scarcely 

 seems to come within the common routine of 

 mortality, but to have been the result of a spe- 

 cial and chastening mandate from Heaven. 



