Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . l, the same attachment to friends, and affection forthose dependent upon him : a lover of his country, and, of the very ne-cessity of his nature, a religious man, and therefore a Christian—long amember of the church in the principles of which he was educated, andsome time participating in its government—but liberal in his views, re-garding the spirit rather than the letter of his creed. Happy in hisdomestic relations, in the affections of an amiable and excellent wife, inthe love of
Portraits of eminent Americans now living: with biographical and historical memoirs of there lives and actions . l, the same attachment to friends, and affection forthose dependent upon him : a lover of his country, and, of the very ne-cessity of his nature, a religious man, and therefore a Christian—long amember of the church in the principles of which he was educated, andsome time participating in its government—but liberal in his views, re-garding the spirit rather than the letter of his creed. Happy in hisdomestic relations, in the affections of an amiable and excellent wife, inthe love of his children, in the attachment of his many friends, andhighly honored, as he is, by his country?—his life affords an example ofthe triumph of right principles, unshrinking integrity, persevering indus-try, and fidelity to truth and to himself, over difficulties of formidablecharacter, and from which a mind of less energy would have shrunk. Heaven does with us as we with torches do,Not light them for ourselves : for if our virtuesDid not po forth of us, twere all the sameAs if we had them not. 52 I. r-Tica
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