. Self-made men. livedthe king for whom he had made so great a sacrifice. On the 20thof July, 1650, Prideaux departed this life, leaving to his offspringM 2 274 SELF-MADE MEN. a pious poverty, Gods blessing, and a fathers blessing. Theevent drew forth various eulogiums, and Cleveland, the poet, sanghis praises in exalted verse. Prideaux was twice married, andhad a large family. As a writer, he has left several works, prin-cipally in the Latin tongue, which evince great learning and clear-ness. In his habits he was devout, simple-minded, humble, andvirtuous. He had a horror of any thing like pr
. Self-made men. livedthe king for whom he had made so great a sacrifice. On the 20thof July, 1650, Prideaux departed this life, leaving to his offspringM 2 274 SELF-MADE MEN. a pious poverty, Gods blessing, and a fathers blessing. Theevent drew forth various eulogiums, and Cleveland, the poet, sanghis praises in exalted verse. Prideaux was twice married, andhad a large family. As a writer, he has left several works, prin-cipally in the Latin tongue, which evince great learning and clear-ness. In his habits he was devout, simple-minded, humble, andvirtuous. He had a horror of any thing like pride, and, as aperpetual remembrancer of his humble origin, the coarse attirein which he walked from Stowford to Oxford was hung up in hiswardrobe, by the side of his episcopal robes. He was emphatic-ally a good man, and a remarkable instance of that strength ofcharacter which is the peculiar blessing of self-made men, andwhich, wherever and whenever manifest, rises superior to ironfortune and cruel KOGEK WILLIAMS. The founder of religious toleration in the New World is just-ly esteemed a worthy of American history, and his name willendure so long as civilization shall have its records. Of theearly history of this illustrious individual we know nothing, ex-cept that, whatever his birth and education, he had to fight hisway in the world. In England, of which country he was a sub-ject (having been born in Wales in the year 1599), the independ-ence of his views, and the earnestness with which he inculcatedthem from the pulpit, soon raised him up an army of enemies anddetractors. To escape these, he emigrated on the 1st of Decem-ber, 1630, in the ship Lion, from the port of Bristol. After atempestuous voyage of sixty-six days, he arrived at Boston onthe 5th of Februaiy, 1631, where he was received by the Churchwith every manifestation of delight. Williamss reputation as apowerful and earnest preacher had preceded him, and the theoc-racy of Narraganset Bay looked to h
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