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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    wh'ether our friends perfonal happinefs, or the fum of happinefs to his connexions in particu¬ lar, or to society at large, would have been in- creafed by his entering into that date, the hap¬ pinefs of which had been “ attefled by his father’s “experience. ” There could be no doubt of his securing the affeXion he fought, in propor¬ tion as the difpenfer of it was amiable and dis¬ criminating, nor could there be any doubt of the moll unqualified return on his part; it would indeed have been, cc thought meeting thought, 66 and will preventing will.” Still I very much doubt, to amind fufceptibk as his was of the tendered: compaflion, and ever aXive in contemplating the mod delicate and the mod effeXual means of exprefling it, whether the neceflity of controlling fuch feelings, might not have interfered with his perfonal happinefs, by contraXing the sphere of his benevolence, and tnus as it were arreding “ the genial current “ of his foul.” If the sphere of his benevolence had been contraXed, it is more than probable^ that the sum of happinefs to his fellow creatures at large would have been diminilhed : but his