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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
( From the Chelmsford Chronicle . ) His powerful and well-trained mind , and his purse , albeit more scanty than his will , were judiciously , and without needless parade and , ostentation , applied to the real advancement of science and art . His presence was readily given , and his hand was open to every charitable
institution , whilst his personal benevolence and his practical example have clone much to mitigate the sufferings of the unfortunate ancl the lowly amongst his fellow-citizens . It is impossible that such a man , whose qualities of mind and whose goodness of heart would have achieved a name for himself even if he had not been born to royalty—it is impossible that he who is described " as the favourite uncle ofthe Sovereign , "
can pass from us for ever by death without calling forth an universal feeling of national regret . But he falls full of age and honor . He goes to the tomb—ancl even in the selection of his burial-place shows the purity of his social affections , ripened by years and the practice of public ancl private virtues ; and there seems not a breath of censure to dim the brightness of that memory which will long be treasured , if not in the stirring annals of our battle-fields and the fiery struggles of our statesmen , at least by those who value the quiet arts of benevolence and
peace . ( From the West Briton . ) But the highest praise that can be awarded to the Duke of Sussex is that he was a Christian , and that as such he drew his rules of conduct directly from the volume of inspiration . We remember that at some public meeting in London , a year or two since , the statement was very
simply ancl unostentatiously made by him , that it was his constant practice to devote two hours daily to the perusal of the scriptures . If thus . " the foundations of his mind were laid , " it is not to be wondered at that he reared upon them so massy and durable a fame . Burke used to say that he dreaded to meet in argument a man of one book—a person saturated with the thoughts and sentiments of some one illustrious
man . If the mind is thus to be strengthened and enlarged by receiving into itself the productions of a kindred intellect , how much more so by being nurtured by the pure emanations of divine wisdom ! We close this brief notice with the expression of our sorrowful feeling at the loss the country has sustained , but which is yet tempered by a sense of gratification that to the record of British princes there is added one whose virtues will shed a permanent lustre upon the annals of his times .
( From the Leeds Mercury ) The Duke of Sussex was a prince of liberal and constitutional principles , of highly cultivated mind , of most honorable , generous , and kindl y feelings , and of a steady and ardent patriotism .
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Character, Life, And Times Of His Late Royal. Highness , By The Public Press.
( From the Chelmsford Chronicle . ) His powerful and well-trained mind , and his purse , albeit more scanty than his will , were judiciously , and without needless parade and , ostentation , applied to the real advancement of science and art . His presence was readily given , and his hand was open to every charitable
institution , whilst his personal benevolence and his practical example have clone much to mitigate the sufferings of the unfortunate ancl the lowly amongst his fellow-citizens . It is impossible that such a man , whose qualities of mind and whose goodness of heart would have achieved a name for himself even if he had not been born to royalty—it is impossible that he who is described " as the favourite uncle ofthe Sovereign , "
can pass from us for ever by death without calling forth an universal feeling of national regret . But he falls full of age and honor . He goes to the tomb—ancl even in the selection of his burial-place shows the purity of his social affections , ripened by years and the practice of public ancl private virtues ; and there seems not a breath of censure to dim the brightness of that memory which will long be treasured , if not in the stirring annals of our battle-fields and the fiery struggles of our statesmen , at least by those who value the quiet arts of benevolence and
peace . ( From the West Briton . ) But the highest praise that can be awarded to the Duke of Sussex is that he was a Christian , and that as such he drew his rules of conduct directly from the volume of inspiration . We remember that at some public meeting in London , a year or two since , the statement was very
simply ancl unostentatiously made by him , that it was his constant practice to devote two hours daily to the perusal of the scriptures . If thus . " the foundations of his mind were laid , " it is not to be wondered at that he reared upon them so massy and durable a fame . Burke used to say that he dreaded to meet in argument a man of one book—a person saturated with the thoughts and sentiments of some one illustrious
man . If the mind is thus to be strengthened and enlarged by receiving into itself the productions of a kindred intellect , how much more so by being nurtured by the pure emanations of divine wisdom ! We close this brief notice with the expression of our sorrowful feeling at the loss the country has sustained , but which is yet tempered by a sense of gratification that to the record of British princes there is added one whose virtues will shed a permanent lustre upon the annals of his times .
( From the Leeds Mercury ) The Duke of Sussex was a prince of liberal and constitutional principles , of highly cultivated mind , of most honorable , generous , and kindl y feelings , and of a steady and ardent patriotism .