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CHAPTER XXIX.
The Author and her mother fix at York....Their plan of
life....The Author engages with Mrs. Gray, in esta-
blishing a Spinning School,...In regulating the Grey-
Coat School....Attends the ministry of Mr. Cappe....
His very dangerous illness...The Author goes into
Craven....Forlorn situation of her brother there....
Visits a sick friend in Oxfordshire....Flourishing state
of the Schools....An unfounded report....A letter
written....Motives misinterpreted....
CHAPTER XXX.
Attacks of severe illness. ...Lesser perplexities....His-
tory of an interesting West-Indian friend....Her ex-
traordinary talents....Great eccentricities....Subsequent
derangement....A legacy left to the Author's mother.
....Her very severe illness....The Author's brother
obtains a curacy near Ferrybridge....His illness and
death....The Author again visits Craven....
CHAPTER XXXI.
Page.
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235
Investigation of pecuniary resources....Doubts respecting
a projected union...Objections whence arising....In
what way overcome. ...The Author's marriage....
Illness and death of Dr. Joseph Cappe....His suffer-
ings from an unfortunate attachment....His uncommon
talents ...His father's fortitude and resignation...... 243
CHAPTER XXXII.
Occupations of the Author....Anxieties respecting her
husband's health....His first severe paralytic attack.
....His life in extreme danger....Pecuniary and other
difficulties....Distress about the Chapel....Happy ar-
rival of Mr. Wellbeloved....Mr. Cappe's great attach-
ment to him..
249
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Alarming state of health of Mr. Cappe's youngest son....
Of his youngest daughter....Their father's second
seizure....Distressing symptoms....Their gradual
abatement....Former occupations in part renewed....
Sermons on Providence published....A medal adjudged
to Mr. Cappe's youngest son....Consolation from Mrs.
Lindsey's correspondence....Account of Dr. Priestley's
situation in America....Death of Maria Logan....
Dr. Robert Cappe graduates at Edinburgh....Comes
to fix in York...
....
CHAPTER XXXIV.
The Author patronizes a deserted young Irishwoman...
Outline of her history......
CHAPTER XXXV.
History continued....A curious dialogue....Various at-
tempts to do her justice....Their return to Ireland....
Subsequent exemplary conduct....Causes of failure in a
merited prosecution....
CHAPTER XXXVI.
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268
282
Sale of property....First introduction to the daughters of
the late eminent Dr. Cullen....Anecdotes of a distressed
Flemish family....Unseasonable weather....Various
perplexities....Death of Mrs. Lindsey's mother....
Mr. Cappe's third afflicting seizure....His imperfect
recovery....Last visit of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey....
Their sudden departure....Mr. Cappe's picture taken.
....His rapidly declining health....Dr. Cappe ap-
pointed a Physician to the Dispensary....The account
of Charity Schools published....Last sickness and death
of Mrs. Rayner....Her extraordinary character.. 295
.....
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Mr. Cappe's last illness, and tranquil death....The
Author's state of mind....The gospel an inestimable
privilege....The institutions of Brahma contrasted with
an apostolic command....Extracts from a letter of
Mrs. Lindsey's....The funeral....Reflections....Fe-
male Benefit Club....Disconsolate state of mind.....
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Mr. Cappe's Critical Dissertations prepared for the press.
....Mr. Lindsey's first debilitating attack....Bap-
tizes a child for the last time, in Spital-square....Dr.
Cappe appointed Physician to the Quakers' Retreat....
Mr. Lindsey's second attack....Dissertations published.
....Their reception....
CHAPTER XXXIX.
307
315
Dr. Cappe's increasing celebrity....His declining health.
.Marriage of his second sister....His voyage to
Italy, accompanied by his unmarried sisters....His
death in the Mediterranean, on board the Astrea....
Letter of his eldest sister....Hardships to which con-
sumptive patients are subjected in long sea-voyages.... 322
CHAPTER XL.
A winter's voyage from Leghorn to Liverpool....Extra-
ordinary talents and virtues of a black servant....His
great activity and singular fidelity....Sketch of his
history....His sickness and death....Reflections..... 332
CHAPTER XLI.
Return of the afflicted sisters....A visit to London....
Return by Cambridge....Reflections on visiting that
ancient university....Sermons selected for publication.
....Thoughts on Charity Schools and Benefit Clubs
published and dedicated to the Ladies' Committee....A
volume of Sermons published.....
338
CHAPTER XLII.
Death of the Author's mother....Her tranquil old age.
....Her picture....Second visit to London....Ex-
cursion into Kent....Reflections on the tomb of the
Black Prince at Canterbury....On the tremendous cliffs
of Dover....
CHAPTER XLIII.
345
Some account of A-e Rr....Her singular affliction.
....Her various talents....Extraordinary resignation
and piety........An unexampled instance of constancy... 350
CHAPTER XLIV.
Satisfactory visit to Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey....Introduc-
tion to some of the Ladies' Committee....Death of Mr.
Cappe's sister....Her character contrasted with that
of a late celebrated duchess, who died the same evening,
in their walk through life, and in their departure out of
it....Singular accident of the Author; the various
minute independent circumstances required for her pre-
servation....Lessons to be learnt from such deliv-
erances.
CHAPTER XLV.
Two more visits to London....Mr. Lindsey's rapidly
declining health....An account of his death....Im-
portance of gospel promises to the aged biographer....
The Life of Christ prepared for the press....The
Author's motives....The hopes of the closet compared
with the actual survey of customs, prejudices, society,
and manners........
CHAPTER XLVI.
Distressed state of the Berwick Female Benefit Club....
Efforts for its restoration....Ultimate success....
Attempt to establish a Female Benefit Club at Long
Preston....Imperfect success....A neglected parish.
....The Author visits the Lakes....Unable to witness
356
362
the beautiful scenery....A new edition of the Discourses
on Providence....An interesting visit to Green-Hill,
near Manchester....To Liverpool....Establishment of
an Auxiliary British and Foreign Bible Society....
Its great importance....Benefits arising from the habit
of reading the Bible....Death of Mrs. Lindsey....
Her Memoir.....
369
CHAPTER XLVII.
Proposal of removing the Dissenting College from Man-
chester, in 1802....Difficulties and discouragements.
....On the part of Mr. Wellbeloved's friends....On his
.Apathy of the dissenters....In some degree
overcome....Labours of Mr. Wellbeloved....His health
injured....Two additional tutors engaged....Princi-
ples of the Institution....Their value and importance. 380
CHAPTER XLVIII.
own....
The events of life not more afflictive than necessary..
The effects of great prosperity exemplified in the history
and fate of a celebrated beauty, the Author's contem-
porary....Striking coincidence between the dictates of
experience and the principles of the Gospel......
CHAPTER XLIX.
The Author's freedom of speaking justified....Her motives
for withdrawing from the Established Church....Objec
tions answered......
392
399
CHAPTER L.
General acknowledgement to friends....Old age not neces-
sarily cheerless and unhappy....To the Christian, how
soothing and tranquil....Favourable to the acquisition
of just views and sentiments....Safety and happiness
of departed Christian friends....Conclusion......
APPENDIX
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