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Article THE SCIENTIFIC MAGAZINE, AND FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY, ← Page 2 of 2 Article ON THE MANNERS OF ANCIENT TIMES. Page 1 of 2 →
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
no medical assistance could resist . He died on the 31 st day of May , 1793 . On the morning of the 4 th of April , his remains were interred in a vault in the south east corner of St . Paul ' s church-yard , Covent-Garden . His remains were attended by his son , Mr . Justice Addington , Mr . Goodenough , Mr . Howard , and others , who had been his intimate friends . The patroles of the metropolis also
attended the funeral , and , by their concern , manifested their feelings for the loss of so good a master : for , as he planned this useful guard , so , according to their merits , he protected them . If we consider the character of Sir Sampson Wright with attention , we shall find in it very much to admire . 'His beginning life so humbly , the more fully approved his talents and rectitude of conduct ;
and the faithful discharge of bis duties as a magistrate , clearly evinced fhe integrity of his princi ples and the goodness of his heart . The improvements and regulations he made in the general police of the metropolis , deserve the hi ghest praise , and will be remembered with gratitude by its inhabitants , whose safety so much depends on the Vi gilance of the presiding istrate at Bow-street , peculation and "
mag avarice , which are too often the concomitants of those holding public situations , cannot be laid to his charge ; and the greatest proof of his being clear in his great office ^ , is , that though the emoluments of it were considerable , and he lived without splendour or extravagance , the property he left behind him was very small , in consideration of what it might have been , had he been less zealous in his good wishes
towards the community . He left behind him only one son , who was brought up at Westminster , and afterwards sent to Trinity-College , Cambridge , where he acquitted himself with great credit . Soon after he left College , this son went out fo Newfoundland in the department of the Judge-Advocate-General , from whence he returned in the year 1 793 ; since which period , satisfied with the patrimony left him by his father , he has not been in any public situation ,
On The Manners Of Ancient Times.
ON THE MANNERS OF ANCIENT TIMES .
A N ingenious writer of the present times says , that the accounts ¦ £ *• which have been given by some authors of the wealth and splendour of the seventh century , are as fabulous as all the other miraculous things we read of in the history of those times . Their whole cloathing was of skins , or coarse woollens . The conveniences of life were not known : buildings , indeed , were erected with strength and
solidity , but conveyed no idea of either the affluence' or taste of the age . Neither much money , nor much knowledge of the arts , is required to pick up heaps of stones by the hands of slaves . One incontestible proof of the indigence of the people was , that taxes were levied in kind ; and that even the contributions which the inferior Clergy paid to . their superiors , consisted of provisions . The superstition "Vyhich prevailed , increased the general darkness . '
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The Scientific Magazine, And Freemasons' Repository,
no medical assistance could resist . He died on the 31 st day of May , 1793 . On the morning of the 4 th of April , his remains were interred in a vault in the south east corner of St . Paul ' s church-yard , Covent-Garden . His remains were attended by his son , Mr . Justice Addington , Mr . Goodenough , Mr . Howard , and others , who had been his intimate friends . The patroles of the metropolis also
attended the funeral , and , by their concern , manifested their feelings for the loss of so good a master : for , as he planned this useful guard , so , according to their merits , he protected them . If we consider the character of Sir Sampson Wright with attention , we shall find in it very much to admire . 'His beginning life so humbly , the more fully approved his talents and rectitude of conduct ;
and the faithful discharge of bis duties as a magistrate , clearly evinced fhe integrity of his princi ples and the goodness of his heart . The improvements and regulations he made in the general police of the metropolis , deserve the hi ghest praise , and will be remembered with gratitude by its inhabitants , whose safety so much depends on the Vi gilance of the presiding istrate at Bow-street , peculation and "
mag avarice , which are too often the concomitants of those holding public situations , cannot be laid to his charge ; and the greatest proof of his being clear in his great office ^ , is , that though the emoluments of it were considerable , and he lived without splendour or extravagance , the property he left behind him was very small , in consideration of what it might have been , had he been less zealous in his good wishes
towards the community . He left behind him only one son , who was brought up at Westminster , and afterwards sent to Trinity-College , Cambridge , where he acquitted himself with great credit . Soon after he left College , this son went out fo Newfoundland in the department of the Judge-Advocate-General , from whence he returned in the year 1 793 ; since which period , satisfied with the patrimony left him by his father , he has not been in any public situation ,
On The Manners Of Ancient Times.
ON THE MANNERS OF ANCIENT TIMES .
A N ingenious writer of the present times says , that the accounts ¦ £ *• which have been given by some authors of the wealth and splendour of the seventh century , are as fabulous as all the other miraculous things we read of in the history of those times . Their whole cloathing was of skins , or coarse woollens . The conveniences of life were not known : buildings , indeed , were erected with strength and
solidity , but conveyed no idea of either the affluence' or taste of the age . Neither much money , nor much knowledge of the arts , is required to pick up heaps of stones by the hands of slaves . One incontestible proof of the indigence of the people was , that taxes were levied in kind ; and that even the contributions which the inferior Clergy paid to . their superiors , consisted of provisions . The superstition "Vyhich prevailed , increased the general darkness . '