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Excerpt from The Advantages of Early Piety Displayed in a Memoir of Mr. John Clement, Surgeon, Late of Weymouth; Who Died in the Twentieth Year of His Age: Compiled From His Letters and Diary, and Interspersed With Occasional Reflexions
The world'has already been favored with memoirs of eminent you ng men. 'and it may be asked what need of any addition? In reply to such a question, it is presumed that this work is not superseded by any of the kind already published. Seeing it occupies different ground, or rather fills up in the same department that which before was uh occupied. In the memoirs of Kirk White, We see an eminent and a pious youth secluded from the world, and devoted to literary pur suits. In the memoirs of Gilpin, we see an amiable youth nursed on the lap of parental affection, removed from every care, having every wish anticipated, every want supplied.
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