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Memoirs Of William Perfect, M. D.
MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM PERFECT , M . D .
MEMBER OP THE LONDON MEDIflAL SOCIETY , AND PROVINC-IAlr GRAND-MASTER . OF MASONS FOR THE COUNTY O-F KENT .
[ WITH A PORTRAIT . ] THE Gentleman who is now the subject of our pen was borri at Oxford about the year . 1740 , but was not educated at that celebrated seat- of the muses : a circumstance which he laments in his epistolary correspondence to the late Rev . T . Austen , of Rochester , in the following couplet f " I foremost rate among my earliest woes , " That bom , not bred , where learned Isis flows . ; " & c . & c .
His father , the Rev . William Perfect , vicar of East Mailing in Kent , died about the year 175 8 , and was intened near the pulpit of the church of which he was minister , and is remembered by the surviving inhabitants with . a respect bordering on adoration . Such was the gracefulness of the person of this missionary , that he might trul y be called , " The Beauty of Holiness . " Indeed the graces of his form
were but tj'pes of his intellectual endowments ; the melody of his voice , the fire andauimation of his delivery , and , above all , his inspired choice . of argument and language , always engaged a crowded auditory , who never departed without improvement : tlie magic rhetoric of his man-, ner roused the guilty to a sense of their ' offences , and cheered the guiltless with trie . g lorious certainty of everlasting happiness . His
life was exemplary , pure , and simple ; his manners gentle , affable , and courteous ; his condescension evinced his good sense ; he admired great and loved good men of all persuasions ; his family ever experienced his affection , his friends his benevolence . His departure from this life was distinguished by that firmness of soul , that internal calmness , that conscious rectitude , wliich marks and characterises y 2
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Memoirs Of William Perfect, M. D.
MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM PERFECT , M . D .
MEMBER OP THE LONDON MEDIflAL SOCIETY , AND PROVINC-IAlr GRAND-MASTER . OF MASONS FOR THE COUNTY O-F KENT .
[ WITH A PORTRAIT . ] THE Gentleman who is now the subject of our pen was borri at Oxford about the year . 1740 , but was not educated at that celebrated seat- of the muses : a circumstance which he laments in his epistolary correspondence to the late Rev . T . Austen , of Rochester , in the following couplet f " I foremost rate among my earliest woes , " That bom , not bred , where learned Isis flows . ; " & c . & c .
His father , the Rev . William Perfect , vicar of East Mailing in Kent , died about the year 175 8 , and was intened near the pulpit of the church of which he was minister , and is remembered by the surviving inhabitants with . a respect bordering on adoration . Such was the gracefulness of the person of this missionary , that he might trul y be called , " The Beauty of Holiness . " Indeed the graces of his form
were but tj'pes of his intellectual endowments ; the melody of his voice , the fire andauimation of his delivery , and , above all , his inspired choice . of argument and language , always engaged a crowded auditory , who never departed without improvement : tlie magic rhetoric of his man-, ner roused the guilty to a sense of their ' offences , and cheered the guiltless with trie . g lorious certainty of everlasting happiness . His
life was exemplary , pure , and simple ; his manners gentle , affable , and courteous ; his condescension evinced his good sense ; he admired great and loved good men of all persuasions ; his family ever experienced his affection , his friends his benevolence . His departure from this life was distinguished by that firmness of soul , that internal calmness , that conscious rectitude , wliich marks and characterises y 2