English Merchants Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce
English Merchants Memoirs in Illustration of the Progress of British Commerce
Bourne Henry Richard Fox
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245. § Ibid. , vol. Xxviii. , p. 337. His Private Life and Character. 427 of the body. You can look back on a life employed much to the good of mankind. " — " You mentioned Tully, sir, " was Barnard's rejoinder ; " he was, you know, a heathen. " — " I ^rant it, " answered the bishop ; " but he was a very wise man. " — " A very vain man, I have always thought, " said Barnard. " Though a life stained with crimes, or wasted in dissipation, must afford a terrifying retrospect indeed, yet, for my ow...n part, I never can think of looking back upon what I have been or done to find consolation from it in my old age. That must spring, I think, from another source. "* That anecdote fairly illustrates the religious austerity of Sir John Barnard. In spite of the opposing influences of Court and City during the worst period of Georgian depra- vity, he retained the simplicity of his youth. He spent an hour each day, we are told, in prayer and study of the Scrip- tures, and every Sunday he went twice to church, ' where he behaved with exemplary seriousness through every part of divine service, hearing the preacher, though his inferior in knowledge of divinity, no less than in strength of intellect, with evident signatures of meekness in his aspect.
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