Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ed to-day. He had less occasion indeedto exert himself as his vigor decayed, for what he had planted was ripened allaround him into fruit. His word, too, had the force of law, for his characterforbade opposition ; his gray hairs were not merely a crown of glory, but thebadge of his patriarchal authority. But the time drew on when this
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . ed to-day. He had less occasion indeedto exert himself as his vigor decayed, for what he had planted was ripened allaround him into fruit. His word, too, had the force of law, for his characterforbade opposition ; his gray hairs were not merely a crown of glory, but thebadge of his patriarchal authority. But the time drew on when this good man should die. For five years beforehis death he suffered considerably from infirmity, and often wished, if it wasGods will, that he should receive his dismission. But at last death did come ,Oberlin died 1st of June, 1826, aged eighty-six, his end being tranquil andhappy. When he came to Waldbach, it was a place where Crabbe mighthave found ample scope for the exercise of his stern, literal, faithful pencil—heleft it a scene where Wordsworth might delight to meditate. His grave-stonein the churchyard among the mountains records the simply expressive fact,that he was for < fifty-nine years the Father of the Ban de la Roche 364 JOHN JOHN CARTWRIGHT. JOHN CARTWRIGHT, an English gentleman, celebrated for his t-xeitions inthe cause of political reform, was born in 1740, at Marnham, Nottinghamshire,of an ancient family. His early education was rather deficient; but he madesome progress in mechanics and practical mathematics. He entered the navy,and became a first lieutenant in 1766. In 1774, his attention was turned topolitics. In his Letters on American Independence, written in this year, headvocated a union between the colonies and the mother state, under separatelegislatures, and argued this great question on the foundation of natural, inherentright; maintaining that the liberty of man is not derived from charters, butfrom God, and that it is original in
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