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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    attack of fever, fo violent that his medical friends were in daily expectation of his death; this how- ever he furvived, and to our furprize and joy to ufe his own expreffion, he “fluttered again in the “ fpring y it was however but for a very fhort period; he relapfed again about May, and though the degrees of his diforder might be faid to fluctuate, he never recovered from that re¬ lap fe. If I conceived that any good could refult from my following my venerable friend, into all the privacies and particulars of a fcene at once fo mournful and fo triumphant as the dying hours of a good man, furrounded by thofe he tenderly loved, and who alfo tenderly loved him, I would not from the confideration of perfonal feelings hefitate a moment; it may however be fufficient to every ufeful purpofe, for me to exprefs more generally, that tendernefs and fortitude, and a humble and chearful refignation to the will of God, were the joy and fupport of his laft mo* ments. It was impoffible that he fhould be ig~ norant of the dillrefs of his furrounding friends, or inienfible to it, yet to judge from the conduCl of all who were present, “ it would be thought u it was they who momentarily expeCted that #