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pecuniary affairs, (which with the assistance of kind friends I
trust I shall do with honor and credit) but his Works of
Genius or Art I cannot finish! He said he hoped and
thought he should be spared to complete his work on Religion,
but that and other works remain to show the uncertainty of human
Life, and hopes and plans for futurity!
"The bitterest portion, is mercifully diluted for us; if we attempt
to perform a Duty with cheerfulness; and He who tempers
the wind to the shorn Lamb "will sustain me through what-
ever trials may be in prospect" And "Instead of yielding
to passing evils, we must meet them, as becomes rational
Creatures, acting under higher impulses than mere temporary
contingencies."
He expected that a University would have been founded
in the City of Wash, as it was the wish of Geo. Washington
thus it should be, and he wrote a treatise on Education which
was much approved of by the General--and when the celebrated
{Saylerand?} visit this part of the world he left him (W.
being out of town) a copy of his work entitled
He had also commenced a Tragedy
founded on the murder of Miss McRae, but his mind