Excerpt from Discourses on Various Occasions I rise to perform a duty, of a kind new to me here, and as sad as it is new. I rise, in behalf of the Bar Of the County of Suffolk, to communicate to the Court its proceedings on a late mournful occurrence. The Oldest member of that Bar is now no more. William prescott has departed this life. He died suddenly, at his own house, and in the bosom Of his family, on Sunday morning, the 8th instant, without pain, and without loss of faculties, or mental aberration, at the age of eighty-two. The Objects, on which his eyes were fixed, for the last time, before they should be closed to open no more, were the Objects nearest and dearest to his affections and his heart. This must have been as he could have wished. He could not but have prayed, that, with a body unracked by pain, an unclouded mind, and a perfect consciousness, he might enjoy this, as his last earthly vision. Not unmindful Of the approach of that change, which was to call him to another state Of being, he met the moment, when at last it came, with serenity, and submitted himself to the will Of his Creator with cheerfulness and trust. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.