The Admission Register of the Manchester School: With Some Notices of the More Distinguished Scholars, Volume 69

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Jeremiah Finch Smith
Chetham society, 1866 - Manchester (England)
 

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Page 99 - 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 the suavity of his manners ; And to his numerous and respectable friends, By the ardour, the sincerity, And the steadiness of his attachments. In the application of his general knowledge To the characters of men and the...
Page 190 - Causa fuit pater his, qui macro pauper agello Noluit in Flavi ludum me mittere, magni Quo pueri magnis e centurionibus orti, Laevo suspensi loculos tabulamque lacerto, Ibant octonis referentes Idibus aera : Sed puerum est ausus Romam portare docendum Artes quas doceat quivis eques atque senator Semet prognatos.
Page 127 - The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Page 77 - When the dead is at rest, let his remembrance rest; and be comforted for him, when his spirit is departed from him.
Page 104 - For honourable age is not that which standeth in length of time, nor that is measured by number of years. But wisdom is the grey hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Page 100 - 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.
Page 20 - I once took the liberty of hinting my suspicions. But I did not think the poison had spread so universally through your frame. And I can only deplore the misfortune, and a very great one I consider it, to the highest and dearest interests of man among all your readers.
Page 229 - Enter not into judgment with thy servant, О Lord ; for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.