Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson].

  • Gibson, James.
Date:
[1810]
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Credit: Memoir of the late Joseph Paice Esq / [James Gibson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    band. “When the ear heard him then it blessed “ him ; and when the eye saw him it gave wit- “ nefs to him ; because he delivered the poor “ that cried, and the fatherlefs, and him that “ had none to help him. The blejfing of him “ that was ready to perijh came upon him9 and “ he caused the widow's heart to fng for joy. ” The above beautiful illuftration of this part of his chara&er, muft be accepted inftead of the minutiae of circumftances, which might in fome inftances be uninteresting, in others indelicate ; though I can fafely add, that the whole would difplay the nicest fenfibility; the tenderest com. paffion; the moft inflexible love of truth and juffice; and the unreferved expofure and facri- fice of his perfonal comforts and convenience. I am now embracing a long interval of our worthy friend^s life, a period of many years 5 during which he fucceeded to the refpeXable public fituations of governor of St. Thomases* and of Guy’s hofpitals ; of lay truftee of Mr Coward’s charities ; and direftor of the South Sea Company; of all which except St, Thomas's, I believe he lived to be the oldeft governor, direXor, or truftee. Thefe connexions necef. farily introduced him to the fociety of the ref-