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 . bited dwellings, we saw nothing that told of the ruin which comes ofcarelessness or neglect. The church of Great Hampden is situated immediately behind the mansion,and contains various memorials of the Hampden family. During the periodthat Hampden spent in the privacy of his residence here, when disgusted withthe aspect of affairs he
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 . bited dwellings, we saw nothing that told of the ruin which comes ofcarelessness or neglect. The church of Great Hampden is situated immediately behind the mansion,and contains various memorials of the Hampden family. During the periodthat Hampden spent in the privacy of his residence here, when disgusted withthe aspect of affairs he withdrew a while from public life before the dissolutionof parliament in 1628-9, and while he was doubtless preparing himself forthe more arduous contest that was yet to be fought, his first wife died. Shelies in the chancel of the church; a beautiful epitaph on a plain black marblestone records her virtues and her husbands regret, in his own affectionate lan-guage. Here, too, his own ashes repose. By his will he directed a stone tobe laid over his grave, with the figures of himself, his wife, and his children,engraved upon it. Did we know nothing of the life of Hampden, we could not but revere and JOHN HAMPDEN. 181 mm /^ - W\ ; i1 Vh-k?;jlt4 Vi-»r^«s;^. 182 OLIVER CROMWELL. love the memory of the man whose dying words breathed forth so pure a can not better conclude this brief sketch of him than with these few andsimple but most noble and touching sentences : 0 Lord God of hosts, greatis thy mercy, just and holy are thy dealings unto we sinful men. Save me, OLord, if it be thy good will, from the jaws of death. Pardon my manifold trans-gressions. O Lord, save my bleeding country : have these reaJms in thy espe-cial keeping. Confound and level in the dust those who woulc* rob the peopleof their liberty and lawful prerogative. Let the king see his <?rror, and turnthe hearts of his wicked counsellors from the malice and wicl nUiess of theirdesigns. Lord Jesu, recei
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