JB/110/170/001

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I have been to day to see George Dyer - perhaps for
the last time. I like to talk about death with dying
men - & to talk of death with good men when dying, is
a great priviledge. It takes away the sting - & annihilates
the victory of the grave.

He was seated near the fire in his arm chair - his wife
near him (shedding bitter tears) and administering with
much kindness & gentleness to his little wants. I am glad to
see you (he said) before I go - for I am going -I feel it - &
it permits me now to set my house in order. I have kind
medical friends,- who do what they can - Mr Cullen Pills
Wakefield - but they can do nothing. I am not terrified, or
distressed - & if this be dying I am ready - I do not know
how I would bear severe pain - but I hope I shall shuffle through
it into death. Mine has been a remarkable life - & all things
in it seem to have ended well - & at its close (-& here
he looked towards his wife - & burst into tears - & his wife
began to weep anew) - I have had the best blessing of all -
I have had many, many doubts - I admire Christianity
as a moral code - but if I believe it has been greatly
polluted - If I could have thought that God had created men

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Identifier: | JB/110/170/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 110.
Date_1	1825-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	110	Main Headings
Folio number	170	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	journal	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	kingsford 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	36160
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