| I. | Pedigree. | |
| II. | Latin Epitaphs, &c. | |
| III. | English Epitaphs. | |
| IV. | Inscription on the Monument of the Rev. Robert Parr. | |
| V. | Letter To Dr. Parr. | |
| VI. | Inscription On A Piece Of Plate Presented By Lord Chedworth. | |
| VII. | Humorous Letter of Mrs. Wynne. | |
| VIII. | A Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Dr. Parr. |
| APPENDIX. | 461 |
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Prestoniæ in Parvecia Harroviensi
Mortuo
Sext. Non. Octobr. anno Christi mdxiii.
Et in hac Ecclesia sepulto;
Fundi domino cultorique
Assiduo, frugi, probo,
Sapienti sine via et arte,
Et, quia bonis suis optime uti novit
Unice fortunato;
Scholæ impensis ejus extracts,
Et ad pueros Græcis ac Latinis
Literis
Erudiendos institute,
Gubernatores, magistri, atque alumni
Hoc monumentum, collata pecunia,
Ponendum curaverunt,
Anno sacro m.dcccxv.
In Harrow Church.
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Thomæ Thackeray, S.
T. P.
Coll. Regal, apud Cantabr. olim Socio,
Chisseliæ Parvæ atque Haydoniæ
In agro Essexiensi Rectori,
Frederico Principi Valliæ a Sacris,
Archidiacono-Southriensi,
Scholæ Harroviensis per xv. ann. Magistro,
Viro integerrimo, sanctissiiuo,
Et adjuventutem liberaliter erudiendam
Studio optimarum artium et suavitate morum
Egregie instructo;
Qui,
Conjuge sui amantissima
Liberisque xiv. superstitibus,
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Decessit Londini vn. Cal. Octobr.
Ann. Domini mdcclx. Ætatis lxvii.
Et in sepulcreto hujus Ecclesiæ
A latere Occidentali conditus est,
Nepotes ejus
Ll. M. hoc Monumentum posuerunt
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Α Χ Ω
Ricardus Farmer, S.
T. P.
Magister hujus Collegii,
Vir facetus et dulcis festivique sermonis,
Græce et Latiné doctus;
In explicandâ veterum Anglorum Poesi
Subtilis atque elegans;
Academiæ Cantabrigiensis stabiliendæ
Et amplificandæ studiosus,
Regis et Patriæ amantissimus,
Vixit ann. lxii. mens. iii. dies
xiiij;
Decessit sexto id. Septemb.
Anno Domini
mdcclxxxxvii;
Et conditus est juxta aram vicini sacelli,
In sepulchro, quod sibi vivus nuncupaverat.
In the Cloisters of Emanuel College.
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H. S. E.
Robertus Sumner, S.
T. P.
Coll. Regal, apud Cantab, olim Socius;
Scholæ Harroviensis haud ita pridem
Archididascalus.
Fuit huic prætantissimo viro
Ingenium naturâ peracre, optimarum
Disciplinis artium sedulo excultum,
Usu diuturno contirmatum, et quodam
Modo subactum.
Nemo enim
Aut in reconditis sapientiæ studiis illo
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Subtilior extitit,
Aut humanioribus literis limatior.
Egregiis cum dotibus naturæ, tum
Doctrinæ præditus.
Insuper accedebant,
In sententiis, vera ac perfecta eloquentia;
In sermone, facetiarum lepos, planè
Atticus,
Et gravitate insuper aspersa urbanitas;
In moribus, singularis quædam
Integritas et fides;
Vitæ denique ratio constans sibi, et ad
Virtutis normam diligenter
Severèque exacta.
Omnibus qui vel amico essent eo,
Vel magistro usi,
Doctrinæ, ingenii, virtutis justum
reliquit desiderium,
Subitâ, eheu! atque immatura morte
Correptus,
Prid. Id. Septemb.
Anno Domini m,dcc,lxxi.
Ætat. suæ xli.
In Harrow Church, Middlesex.
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Viro integro, innocenti, pio;
Scriptori Græcis et Hebraicis literis
Probe erudito;
Verbi divini gravissimo interpreti;
Religionis simplicis et incorruptæ
Acerrimo propugnatori;
Nepotes ejus atque pronepotes,
In hac capella,
Cujus ille fundamenta olim jecerat,
Monumentum hocce honorarium
Poni curaverunt.
In the Octagon Chapel, Norwich.
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Α Χ Ω
Samueli Johnson,
Grammatico et Critico,
Scriptorum et Anglicorum literate perito,
Poetæ luminibus verborum admirabili,
Magistro virtutis gravissimo,
Homini optimo et singularis exempli,
Qui vixit ann. lxxv. mens. ii.
dies xiiii.
Decessit Idib. Decembr. ann. Christ.
cIc. Iccc. lxxxiiiI.
Sepult. in Æd. sanct. Petr. Westmonasteriens.
xiii. Kal. Janvar. ann. Christ. cic.
iccc. lxxxv.
Amici et Sodales literarii
Pecunia conlata
H. M. faciund. curaver.
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Danieli Gaches, A.M.
Collegii Regalis in Academia Cantabrigiensi
Quondam Socius
Ecclesiæ hujusce per ann. xxxviii. mens. ix.
Ministro,
Irenarchæ, de comitatu Varvicensi
Optime merito;
Siquidem æqui et boni peritiasimus fuit,
Et ad nodos legum solvendos
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Quam maxime expeditus:
Non solum literis Græcis atque Latinis
Apprime docto,
Sed etiam vi quadam ingenii,
Quæ ad excogitandum acuta,
Et ad memoriam firma atque diuturna erat,
Egregie prædito:
Qui vixit Ann. lxxii. mens. vi.
Decessit iv. . id. Septembr. Anno Sacro mdcccv.
Maria Gaches, Conjux ejus superstes,
h. m. p. s. p. c.
In Wooten Wawen Church.
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Viro, tum ob doctrinam multiplicem et exquisitam,
Tum ob celeres illos ingenii motus,
Qui ad excogitandum acuti, et ad explicandum
ornandumque uberes sunt,
Eximio ac præclaro:
Optime de literis, quæ solas esse omnium
Temporum
Omniumque locorum expertus vidit;
Optime de senatu, cujus periclitantis
Ipse decus et columen fuit;
Optime de Patria, in Cives
Sui amantissimos, eheu! ingrata,
Nunquam non promerito,
Librum huncce ea, qua par est, observantia,
d. d. d.
a. e. a. o.
Dedication to Dr. Parr’s edition of
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Honoratissimo Viro
Qui in æquabili et temperato dicendi genere
Facile primas tenet:
Quem sciunt omnes, tum in sermone, tum moribus gravitatem
servare,
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Non tristem ilium ac tetricam,
Sed comitate quadam et lepore
Suavissime conditam:
Qui optimorum et avium et virorum
Amicitia dignissimus,
Novit simpliciter et candide ponere inimicitias:
Cujus nunquam in Clientium turbam infidelem
Ingratamque
Justa exarsit ira;
Nunquam in legibus institutisque majorum
Defendendis
Industria elanguit;
Nunquam perturbatis temporibus, sua cum
Res ageretur,
Fides virtusque contremuit:
Librum huncce in summæ obserrantiæ,
Admirationis, et pietatis
Testimonium,
d. d. d.
a. e. a. o.
Dedication to Dr. Parr’s edition of
Bellendenus. |
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Quòd veram illam et absolutam eloquentiam
Non modo coluerit, sed cultam, qua potuit,
Ad salutem Patriæ dignitatemque tuendam
Contulerit;
Quod in suscipiendis sive amicitiis, sive inimicitiis,
Has semper voluerit mortales
Habere, illas sempiternas;
Quod mente solida invictaque permanserit in
Proposito,
Atque improborum spreverit minus;
Quod in causa, quæ maxime popularis esse
Debuisset,
Non populariter illc quidem,
Ut alii fictè et fallaciter populares,
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Sed strenuè ac fortiter versatus sit;
Quòd, denique, in fœdissimo illo
Optimi prudentissimique Senatus naufragio,
Id demum, imò id solum
Quod turpe esset,
Miserum existimarit, atque adeò cum bonis
Libere πολιτευτέον statuerit,
Potius quam periculose et simulate et cupide
inter malos,
Librum huncce ea, qua par est, observantia,
d. d. d.
a. e. a. o.
Dedication to Dr. Parr’s edition of
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Criticus acri ingenio et multiplici doctrina
Ornatus,
Idemque historicorum qui fortunam
Imperii Romani
Vel labentis et inclinati, vel eversi et funditus
Deleti
Literis mandaverint,
Omnium facile princeps,
Cujus in moribus erat moderatio animi
Cum liberali quadam specie conjuncta,
In sermone
Multa gravitati comitas suaviter aspersa,
In scriptis
Copiosum, splendidum,
Concinnum orbe verborum,
Et summo artificio distinctum
Orationis genus,
Reconditæ exquisitaque sententiæ,
Et in monumentis rerum politicarum observandis
Acuta et perspicax prudentia,
Vixit aunos lvi. mens. vii. dies
xxviii.
Decessit xii. cal. Feb. Anno Sacro
mdcclxxxxiv.
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Et in hoc mausoleo sepultus est,
Ex voluntate Johannis Domini Sheffield,
Qui amico bene merenti et convictori humanissimo
h. tab. p. c.
At Fletching in Sussex.
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Α Χ Ω
Qui vix. ann. xv. mens. viii.
dies
Decessit viii. id. Mart. Anno Sacro
cic. Iccclxxxxiiii.
Joannes et Margareta
Smitheman,
Parentes infelicissimi,
Unico et charissimo filio
Contra votum posuerunt.
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H. S. E.
Allectus in equestrem ordinem Balnei
A Georgio Tertio Britanniarum Rege;
Ortu Scotus,
Imperator fortis idemque innocens,
Et rei militaris peritissimus
Scientia et usu:
Qui
In Batavia, Corsica, Ægypto, India Occidentali,
Hostes fugatos vidit;
Hispanorum tetra et detestabili tyrannide oppressorum
Jura, leges, aras et focos,
Summo quo potuit studio tutatus est;
Et post varios belli casus,
Cum ad Corunnam ægre accessisset,
Milites suos,
Longo itinere, fame, frigore, enectos,
Ad subeundam prælii dimicationem
Hortando erexit,
Audendo confirmavit;
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Et Gallis numero copiarum fretis,
Et felicitate ducis pæne perpetua superbientibus,
Victoriam e manibus eripuit;
Legioni quadragesimæ secundæ,
Societate periculomm diu secum conjunctissimæ,
Et memori rerum in Ægypto prospere gestarum,
De virtute digna commilitonibus suis
Gratulatus est;
Et vulnere pro patria sociisque ejus accepto,
Vitam, uti multum et sæpe optaverat,
Bene consummavit,
xvii kal. Februar. Anno Sacro mdcccviii.
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Georgius,
Georgii Tertii filius,
Britanniarum Regnum Unitum Regens,
et qui regiæ Majestati a sanctioribus consiliis sunt
hoc monumentum
ponendum curaverunt,
Anno Sacro
mdcccxiiii.
Erected on a Monument at Corunna.
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Matthæo Raine, S. T.
P.
Coll. Trin. in Academia Cantabrigiensi socio,
Scholæ Carthusianæ, cujus antea fuerat alumnus,
Per xx annos Archididascalo,
In capella societatis Anglice dictæ Gray’s Inn,
Ann. ii. mens. iii.
conscionatori,
Qui vixit ann. li. mens. iii.
dies xxix.
Decessit xv. cal. Octobr. Ann. Sacro mdcccxi.
Et in hoc sacello sepultus est:
Homini justo, integro, pio,
Civi in Patriam optime animato,
Interpreti sacræ Scripturæ
Veritatis cupidiori quam contentionis,
Et solito audientiam sibi facere
Naturali quadam auctoritate
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Et genere orationis gravi ac virili,
Magistro liberalium artium,
Græcis et Latinis literis apprime docto,
Et præceptori recte vivendi
Propter suavitatem sermonis atque morum
Dignissimo,
Qui in loco sancti parentis haberetur,
Discipuli ejus sua sponte suoque sumtu
H. M. P. C. C.
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Jacobo Jonstone, Jun.
Qui in hac urbe per ix annos
Artem medicam exercuit,
Et dum ægris in carcere inclusis
Opem ferebat,
Febris ibi sævientis contagione
Correptus,
Decessit xviii. kalend. Sept.
Anno Christi mdcclxxxiii.
Ætat. suæ xxx.
Jacobus Jonstone, M. D.
Fil. B. M. F. C.
In Worcester Cathedral.
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Carolo Burneio, LL.D. S.T.P. A.S. R.S. Sodali,
Graæarum literarum et Latinarum Professori
In Regia Academia Londinensi,
Georgio Tertio Britanniarum Regi a Sacris,
Ecclesiæ Lincolniensis Præbendario,
Cliffiæ, et Ecclesiæ D. Pavli Deptfordiensis
In Agro Cantiano Rectori,
Scholæ Grenovicensis per xviii Annos Magistro,
Qui vixit Annos lx. dies xxiv.
Decessit Quinto Cal. Januar. Anno Sacro cic ic ccc xviii.
Et Deptfordiæ sepultus est
Discipuli ejus hoc monumentum, pecunia collata, posuerunt.
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Inerant in hoc viro
Plurimæ et reconditae literæ,
Judicium artis critiæ præceptis
Stilique frequentissima exercitatione limatum,
Et in nodis rei metricæ solvendis,
Eximia quædam sollertia.
In libris, quos Latine ant. Anglice conscripsit,
Lucidus erat sententiarum ordo,
Et sine fuco nitor verborum.
Sermonem ejus ad magnam
Et ingenii et doctrinæ opinionem commendabant,
Motus animi ad excogitandum celeres,
Vox plena et canora,
Acies oculorum acerrima ilia quidem,
Sed hilaritate totius vultus suaviter temperata,
Et argutiæ jucundissimo lepore conditæ,
Quum. juvenes ad politiorem humanitatem informaret,
Accuratius quoddam et exquisitius docendi genus adhibebat;
Et in mentibus eorum ad omne officii munus instruendis,
Personam magistri summa fide et gravitate tuebatur.
Hasce ad laudes accesserunt
Singularis vitæ atque naturæ comitas,
Quæ optimi cujusque benevolentiam conciliabat;
Et discipulos ad amorem et reverentiam præceptoris sui
Mirifice alliciebat,
Assiduum et vehemens studium in promendis consiliis,
Quæ, ludimagistris indigentibus aut senio confectis
Solatium ac perfugium præbere possent,
Et digna homine perfecte erudito diligentia
In comparanda bibliotheca,
Quæ libris, aliis manu scriptis,
Aliis e prelo emissis,
Ita ornata fuit,
Ut, post mortem possessoris luctuosam
Emeretur sumtu publico,
Et jussu Anglici Parliamenti
In Britannico Museo collocaretur.
Maxime autem in Burneio elucebantur
Voluntas in Anglicam Ecclesiam propensissima,
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Spes æternae salutis pie in Christo posita,
Et consuetudo pure atque caste
Venerandi Deum.
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JOANNI BAYNES, A. M.
Collegii S. Trinitatis apud Cantabrigienses socio,
Juveni diserto et sine maledictis faceto,
Vi ingenii ad excogitandum acuta,
Et firma ad memoriam mirificè præito;
Græcis et Latinis literis penitus imbuto;
Legum Anglicarum interiore
Et recondita disciplina erudito;
Libertatis conservandæ perstudioso;
Patriæ bonorumque civium amantissimo;
Simplici justo et propositi
Animose et fortiter tenaci;
Qui vixit ann. xxviii. mens. iii.
dies xxviii.
Decessit Londini pridie non. August.
Anno Sacro
mdcclxxxviii.
GULIELMUS BAYNES
Contra votum superstes
Filio bene merenti
H. M. P.
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Ricardo Lubbock,
Norvici nato;
Græcis Latinisque literis
Ibidem instituto;
Magnam postea in Academia Edinburgensi
Laudem adepto
Propter ingenii lumen, quod in thesi ejus
De Principio Sorbili conscripta eluxerat;
Viro
Ab omni doctrina liberali et maxime philosophia
Cumulate instructo;
Sermonis comitate et suavissimis moribus
Ex imie prædito;
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De amicis suis et propinquis
Optime merito;
Patriæ amantissimo;
Qui cum in urbe, qua natus fuerat,
Medicinam per xxiiii annos
Scienter et perite exercuisset,
Gravi diuturnoque morbo affectus,
Decessit, quarto non. Septembr.
A. D. mdcccviii. aet. xxxxviiii.
Brigitta Lubbock, Conjux ejus superstrs,
H. M. S. S. P. C.
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Aqua ex hoc puteo hausta
Sitim sedavit
Ricardus Tertius, Rex
Angliæ,
Cum Henrico Comite de Richmondia
Acerrime atque infensissime
Prælians,
Et vita pariter ac sceptro
Ante noctem cariturus,
ii. kal. Sept. A. D. mcccclxxxv.
Inscribed on King Richard’s Well, in Bosworth Field.
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This Tablet
Is consecrated to the Memory of the
Rev. Joseph
Priestley, LL. D.
By his affectionate Congregation,
In Testimony
Of their Gratitude for his faithful Attention
To their spiritual Improvement,
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And for his peculiar Diligence in training up their youth
To rational Piety and genuine Virtue:
Of their Respect for his great and various Talents,
Which were uniformly directed to the noblest Purposes;
And of their Veneration
For the pure, benevolent, and holy Principles,
Which through the trying Vicissitudes of Life,
And in the awful hour of Death,
Animated him with the hope of a blessed Immortality.
His Discoveries as a Philosopher
Will never cease to be remembered and admired
By the ablest Improvers of Science.
His Firmness as an Advocate of Liberty,
And his Sincerity as an Expounder of the Scriptures,
Endeared him to many
Of his enlightened and unprejudiced Contemporaries.
His Example as a Christian
Will be instructive to the Wise, and interesting to the Good,
Of every Country, and in every Age.
He was born at Fieldhead, near Leeds, in Yorkshire,
March 24, A. D. 1733.
Was chosen a Minister of this Chapel, Dec. 31, 1780.
Continued in that Office Ten Years and Six Months.
Embarked for America, April 7, 1794.
Died at Northumberland, in Pennsylvania, Feb. 6, 1804.
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Sacred to the Memory
Of George Loyd, Esq.,
late of Manchester,
Barrister,
Who died at Bath, October the 12th, 1804,
In the 55th year of his age.
This excellent man was long and justly endeared
To his family, by tenderness as a husband, and kindness as a
father;
To his acquaintance, by the gentleness of his temper, and
suavity of his manners,
And to his numerous and respectable friends,
By the ardour, the sincerity, and the steadiness of his attachments.
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In the application of his general knowledge
To the characters of men, and the events of life,
He preserved that rare and happy union
Of correctness and liberality,
Which is the surest criterion of a mind
Vigorous from nature,
Comprehensive from reflection,
And virtuous from principle.
In the discharge of his professional duties,
He was deservedly celebrated
For the soundest judgment and the strictest integrity.
His conversation was at once agreeable and instructive
From the quickness and variety of his conceptions,
The activeness and accuracy of his reasoning,
And the perspicuity, exactness, and elegance of his diction.
His patriotism was neither warped by prejudice,
Nor tainted by faction,
Nor staggered by real or imaginary danger.
His benevolence was enlarged without singularity,
And active without ostentation.
His fortitude was alike unshaken
By the pressure of a lingering and complicated disease,
The consciousness of progressive and incurable blindness,
And the expectation of approaching death.
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Catherine Jane Parr, youngest daughter of Samuel and Jane Parr, was born at Norwich, June 13th, 1782, died at East Teignmonth, Devon, November 22d, 1805, and on December 9th was buried in this Chancel, where the remains of her afflicted parents will hereafter be deposited, at the request of a most beloved child, whom they hope to meet again at the Resurrection of the Just to Life Everlasting.
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Quæ Templo Catharina in hoc sepulta est,
“Prudens, casta, decens, severa, dulcis,
“Discordantia quæ solent putari,
“Morum commoditate copulavit,
“Nam vitæ comites bonæ fuerunt
“Libertas gravis et pudor facetus,”
His est juuetus amor pius suorum,
Et cura ex animo Deum colendi.
In Hatton Church, Warwickshire.
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Mrs. Sarah Anne Wynne, the ingenious and beloved daughter of Samuel and Jane Parr, was born at Stanmore, in Middlesex, December 31st, 1772; died at Hatton, July 8, 1810, and was interred on the 18th in this Chancel between the remains of her sister Catherine Jane Parr, and her third daughter Madalina Wynne, who departed this life, May 26th, 1810, aged two years, eight months, and nine days.
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This Translation was dictated by Dr. Parr.
Here lieth interred Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore;
Created Knight of the Bath by George the Third,
King of the Britannic Isles.
A Scot by birth.
A commander heroic in valour,
Pure from rapacity and avarice,
And skilful in the whole range of military affairs
From science aided by experience.
In Holland, Corsica, Ægypt, and the West Indies
He saw his enemies put to flight.
While the Spaniards were oppressed by a fell and detestable
Tyranny, he, with the utmost possible ardour, endeavoured
To defend their rights, their laws, their altars, and
Their habitations; and, after the vicissitude of prosperous
And adverse events incident to war, when he with
Difficulty had made his way to Corunna,
And when his soldiers were debilitated and exhausted
By the length of their march, and by hunger, and by cold,
He roused them by the earnestness of his exhortations,
And he emboldened them by the courageousness of his example,
To encounter the perils of unequal conflict.
From the French, when they were confidently relying
On the number of their forces, and proudly exulting in the
Peculiar and almost uninterrupted good fortune of
Their leader, he suddenly snatched the palm of victory.
Upon the soldiers of the 42d Regiment,
Long endeared to him by the participation of common danger,
And awakened by one short and pithy admonition to
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The remembrance of their successful achievements in Egypt,
He bestowed his congratulations and his praise,
As upon followers, who by their prowess had approved
Themselves worthy of being called his fellow-warriors;
And having received a wound in the defence of his country
And her allies, according to the wish, which he had expressed
Frequently and fervently,
He closed his life gloriously in the field of honour
On the 16th of January, 1808.
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George,
The Son of George the Third,
Prince Regent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
And Ireland, and the Members of the Cabinet Council
Commanded this Monument to be erected
In the Year of our Lord 1814.
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Inscription on the Monument of the Rev. Robert
Parr.
Siste, Hospes;
Moræ pretium est scire
Cujus huc conduntur cineres.
Roberti Parr, A. M.
Collegii Regalis apud Cantab, haud ita pridem Socii
Ecclesiarium postea de Horsted et Coltishall
Rectoris quam dignissimi.
Si vitam spectas, vixit quod docuit;
Si fortunam, plura meruit quam tulit.
Obiit magno parochiarium et amicorum luctu,
Maximo conjugis et filiorum desiderio,
Die octavo Septembris, A. D. 1759.
Ætatis 56.
Hoc quicquid est monumentum
In memoriam tam cari capitis
Pia mœrensque conjux erexit
Maria Parr.
Vale!!
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This letter is here inserted merely to show the perfect freedom, with which the writer was allowed, and accustomed, to protest against whatever in the views or opinions of Dr. Parr appeared to him erroneous.
I find that I cannot yet get away from home, on Saturday next; otherwise I should have been proud and happy to make one of the party, to which you are so good as to invite me.
O my Dear Doctor!—how has your last letter on the subject of ——— cut me to the heart! To see so noble a mind as yours laid prostrate at the feet of so poor, dull-beaded, cold-hearted a creature as ——— does indeed fill me with grief, not wholly unmingled with shame. Well! your first opinion is still unalterably mine: and whilst I shall always remember that first opinion, and the generous warmth with which it was expressed, to your honour, I shall try to forget that you ever adopted an opposite opinion—which, indeed, is not properly your opinion—in deference to reasons, which appear to me so wretchedly frivolous, so pitifully flimsy, as to be worthy only of the person, from whom they proceeded.
Notwithstanding this unfortunate difference between your opinion and mine—or rather between your first and your second opinion—let me assure you that no one upon earth more highly venerates, or more ardently loves you, than
Within a few days after the date of the above letter Dr. Parr came uninvited to Leam, dined and spent the day there; and if he saw not his error, as the writer has reason to think he did, at least he showed, by the marked attention, and friendliness of his behaviour, that he was not displeased with the frankness, which endeavoured to convince him of it.
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Samueli Parr, L.L.D.
Viro, ob ingenium peracre et perelegans,
Eruditionem multiplicem et reconditam,
Singularem Libertatis amorem,
Et mentem simultationis omnino nesciam, eximio,
Hocce summæ suæ observantiae
Et constantissimae erga eum benevolentiæ monumentum
Anno Sacro mdccciii.
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To Samuel Parr, L.L.D.
A man celebrated for an extraordinary acute and elegant genius,
Universal and profound erudition,
A distinguished love of Liberty,
A mind unconscious of deception,
Has dedicated this memorial,
In testimony of his high opinion
And uninterrupted regard.
a.d. 1803.
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My Dear Sir,—Every well-constituted mind—and yours, I have
abundant reason to esteem well-constituted—is stored with principles equally
important to society, and efficacious in procuring its own happiness. Among
these principles, fidelity is constantly affirmed to hold the highest place;
and so loudly and unanimously have mankind applauded the exercise of this
virtue, that the idea of deceit is at least outwardly spurned by the very
basest of mankind, and to quote a trite though striking adage, there is honour
even among thieves. Perhaps there is no situation in life more painful, than to
contain within one’s bosom either joys or sorrows, without the power of
participating them with some person, upon whose truth and sympathy the heart
may safely rely. Such is the lot of many. But I trust such misery will never be
mine. Your prudence, your wisdom, your unstained fidelity, your unassailable
secresy, are my pledges; and I hasten to relieve my oppressed soul from a
secret of the very highest possible importance; a secret, which my intimate
acquaintance with men of the highest celebrity has alone enabled me to
penetrate; a secret, upon which the fate of empires, if not of the whole human
race, depends; a secret, of magnitude sufficient to convulse the mind of a
stoic, however hardened by apathy; a secret, in short, too overwhelming in its
effects, to be confided to a man less rigid in his moral principles, less
blameless in the tenour of his conduct, less fortified against the power of
temptation, or less proved by repeated and unfailing trials, than yourself.
But, my friend, beware; and if you feel unequal to the trust I am about to
repose in you, destroy immediately this paper, before you lead yourself into a
snare, which will blast your own peace of mind for ever, and hurl the
thunderbolt of destruction upon unoffending millions. Above all, keep the
secret from all women. Mrs. John is a very worthy woman; I
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To the views which I have set before you (on the evils of sectarian
animosity), my own mind has been led by the feelings of solemn and affectionate reverence
for the character of that distinguished minister of religion in the Church of England,
whose life diffused instruction and amusement amongst us, and whose death has occasioned a
general regret throughout this neighbourhood. I need not apologise for introducing into a
dissenting
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It becomes us to be grateful to God for raising up so great and good men, as our late venerated neighbour; and, according to our humble powers and limited opportunities, to endeavour like him to assuage among Christians the violence of sectarian animosity, and to practise ourselves and inculcate in others the same spirit of universal benevolence.
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