Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson].

  • Gibson, James.
Date:
[1810]
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Credit: Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    following lines from a letter he wrote to me about a year before his death, confidering it the faith¬ ful expreffion of his tendered: feeling to the lateft period of his life, a As I hope ere long to en~ “ ter the regions of peace, my duty and ambition u prompt me to endeavor to reftore it, (as far as €fi my limited fphere admits,) in the ftate I am “ leaving. Some circumftances gracioufly 66 whifper me, do speedily all you can and sit 6i quiet” That he attended to thefe “gracious whifpers,” that he did all he could, and that he did it as fpeedily as he could, I think is abun¬ dantly proved by the employment of his later years; that having done fo, he in the (ame fpirit “quietly” refigned himfelf to the will of God in death, can be fully teftified by thofe and by thofe only, who witneffed the lateft periods of his life. About the beginning of the prefent year, cir¬ cumftances dearly indicated that his phylica! ftrength and vigor were abating, his health was vifibly impaired. The laft time he was from home was at Guy’s Hofpital, either in January or February, and as that was one of his deareft connections, it was not without pleafure that he contemplated it to have been the fcene of his laft public duty. In March he fuffered a violent \