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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    in the number but in the virtues of our fpecies ? My objects in what I have written, have been to exhibit however unworthily, the example of this good man to you my dear child, and to all who may read it; and to (hew that there ftill exifts veneration for fuperior worth, which I conceive to be fully proved, by the widely ex¬ tended respeQ:, regard, and confidence in which Mr. Paice was held, embracing a fpace com- menfurate with his virtues. I have alfo a high perfonal gratification, in thus declaring my own obligations to him and to his memory, for the numerous inftances of affe&ion and confidence I have experienced at his hands ; and I truft I fhall ever confider it among the valuable acquirements of my life, to have been thought worthy by fucb a man, to be in any de¬ gree the companion or confolation of his joys or forrows: to be admitted to the affe&ing in¬ timacies of his declining and dying hours; and, in the lateft, loweft, but moft touching accents, to feel as it were the breathings of his moft en¬ deared acknowledgments > and I am fure that others to whom I particularly rtjcr, being at leaft equally entitled to, will be at leaft equally