MEMOIR OF 
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“ and to visit the fatherless and widows in their 
affliction,” seems to have been his habitual practice 
throughout his long protracted existence. We 
have seen him born with a natural delicacy of 
constitution, which nothing, it is probable, but 
rigid temperance and self-denial could have sus- 
tained, yet cheerfully submitting to these restraints, 
while cultivating the abilities his Maker had bes- 
towed upon him ; we have seen him carry with 
him the good wishes and recommendations of his 
instructors, while pursuing his education in foreign 
countries ; and, finally, brought into active life 
at home, under the auspices of men of high talent 
and reputation, whose kindness and judgment 
the result fully justified. His middle age was 
passed in active benevolence, alleviating “ the 
evils that flesh is heir to, ” among all classes, from 
the sovereign on the throne, to the casual and 
dependant inmate of an hospital, receiving honours 
from the one, and blessings from the other; a 
generous promoter of every institution calculated 
to enlarge the mental powers of man or relieve 
his bodily infirmities; and, at length resigning 
his soul into the hands of the God who gave it 
with humility and resignation, and with admirable 
consistency so rarely practised, leaving directions 
that no sycophantic eulogy should be pronounced 
over his remains ; but that the occasion should be 
improved by those salutary reflections which such 
