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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    been agitated by a variety of confli&ing feelings: the desire to give to a character fo exemplary, fuch a degree of publicity as might be inftru&ive to others, has been oppofed to the remembrance of that extreme delicacy, which either forbade him to form a juft eftimate of his own a&ions, or which occafioned him to retire and even to fhrink from thofe acknowledgments which were due to them. That he was perpetually doing good, or endeavoring to do good, publicly or privately, cannot be denied by any who knew him, and it will with equal readinefs be admitted, that he “ blujhed to find it fame. ” Happy indeed, and highly honored fliould I confider myfelf, fhould I fucceed in forming a corre£t judgment of what may be commu¬ nicated with ufefulnefs, concerning this mo ft amiable- man, without offending againft what might have been the wifh of one, whom to en¬ grave on my heart in every chara&er of tender* nefs and gratitude, will fever be my duty and I hope my delight. Happier ftill, and ftill more highly honored fhould I be, if in the faint but faithful delineation which I propofe, I fhould . fucceed in communicating one ray of his genius, which was brilliant ; one beam of his benevo¬ lence, which diverged in every direction; one fpark of his philanthrophy, which fhone on all;