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it
while
King
GEORGE
our deliverer
lies
asleep
in
the
dust and
silence.
4.
When
we
consider the
many
personal
excellencies
and
royal
virtues
that
'adorned
the
character
of our late
sovereign,
it
is
an
awful
and
afflictive
thing
to'
think
of
so
much excellency removed from the
earth. The
world
is
bereaved
of
one
of
the best
of
princes. Should
we
take a survey
of
his
excellent qualifications for go-
vernment, it
would
entertain
us
beyond
the measure
of
our present
time
;
but
in
gratitude
to the memory
of
such
a
prince,
and
to
awaken
a
due
sense
of
our
loss,
we
cannot
pass away to
the
next
head,
without
the
short
mention of
a
few
of
those royal
virtues.
1.
He
was a
prince
of
a
wise
heart,
and excellent
in
counsel;
sagacious
to
foresee
threatening dangers
at
a
distance, and
to
penetrate
into future
events,
as
far
as
human foresight
is
permitted
to
do
it.
Consummate
wisdom
makes an
approach
to a
prophetic
spirit.
How
just
and happy were
his
sentiments
of
the .tendency
of
things
in
the
former
reign
?
How
true
his
presages
?
And how.dreadful
had
the
final
event
been,
if
a merciful
providence
had
not
brought
him
to
the
throne,
to
prevent
the
,dangers- which he
foresaw
?
With
how
successful
a
penetration
did
he
enter
into the projects
of
foreign
princes, and
by
a
prudent precaution guard
us
from
the
mischievous influence of them
?
Great
Britain, and
the
nations
in
alliance therewith,
find
the present happy
effects
of
his wisdom in
this respect.
2.
He
was
a
prince
of great
firmness
of
soul
:
his
heart
was
all
courage
;
resolution
ánd
a
steady
conduct
ran:
through
the whole
of
his
affairs
:
And
in
many
instances
those
that
were
near
the
throne
have observed
a remarkable
constancy
of
.spirit
in
his
government, the
happy
effects
whereof
nave
been very
discernable
to those
at
a
greater
distance. We have
had
no weak, fickle
ma-
nagement, and changing
scenes
of
things since
he
wore the
crown
:
This made
him
the more
beloved
by his
friends,
and
his
enemies stood the
more in awe
of
him.
-3.
Mercy, goodness,
and
love were wrought
into
his
very
constitution
;
they 'discovered themsOves
even
to
the
eyes
of
strangers,
in
the
very
features of
his
counte-
nance
:
Every one
that
saw his face,
declared
they
saw
the
evident
traces.
and signatures
of
benignity and
good,.