patronage of the present: which however he anticipates with a considerable degree of confidence, founded on the reputation of the Author; and the many signal occasions on which his compositions have received the stamp of general approbation and applause. THE EDITOR. VII. 105 An Oration in memory of General Montgomery, and of the officers and soldiers, who fell with him, December 31, 1775, before Quebec; delivered, February 19, 1775, in the great Calvinist-Church, Philadelphia, by the ap- II. An Eulogium on Benjamin Franklin, L. L. D. deliver- ed, March 1, 1791, in the great Lutheran Church Phi- ladelphia; before, and by appointment of, the Ameri- ean Philosophical Society; the president and congress of the United States, and sundry other public bodies, ☐ also attending by invitation; with an appendix, con- taining some of Dr. Franklin's writings, not before pub- III. The Hermit, in eight numbers; first published at Phi- ladelphia, in the American Magazine; from October 1757 to October 1758, both inclusive. IV. A philosophical meditation, and religious Address to V. A General Idea of the College of Mirania, with an ac- 1 ON DEATH, A RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, A FUTURE JUDGMENT, AND AN ETERNAL WORLD TO COME. THE following verses, having been originally printed with the first of the following Sermons, ought not now to be separated from it. When the goodnatured reader is acquainted that they are a collection of the tears of a few young gentlemen, who were fellow students of the deceased, the author knows that he may depend on that candour in favour of them, which he can only hope for, in favour of himself. The truly promising youth, who is the subject of them, died at Philadelphia, August 28th, 1754, being a student in the senior Philosophy Class of the College there. He was the second son of the Hon. JOSIAH MARTIN, Esq. of Antigua, and cousin to SAMUEL MARTIN, Esq. member of Parliament for Camelford, Treasurer to the Princess Dowager of Wales, and Secretary of the Treasury, to whom the Sermon was most respectfully and gratefully inscribed. TO THE AUTHOR, ON HEARING HIS SERMON, UPON THE DEATH OF HIS HOPEFUL PUPIL, OUR DEAR FELLOW STUDENT, MR. WILLIAM THOMAS MARTIN, I CALL no aid, no muses to inspire, Or teach my breast to feel a poet's fire; And loftier thoughts within my bosom glow. } 2 For when, in all the charms of language drest, O! could I boast to move with equal art Some virtue lost be wept in every line; For virtues he had many....'Twas confest That native sense and sweetness fill'd his breast. But cooler reason checks the bold intent, And, to the task refusing her consent, This only truth permits me to disclose, That in your own, you represent my woes; And sweeter than my song, is your harmonious prose! } F. HOPKINSON College of Philadelphia, September 5, 1754. ON THE SAME, BY A FELLOW STUDENT. AND is your MARTIN gone? Is he no more, That living truth, that virtue seen before? Yet hark! soft-whispering reason seems to say, } S. MAGAW。 College of Philadelphia, September 6, 1754. ON THE SAME, BY A FELLOW STUDENT.. WHILE for a pupil lost, your sorrow flows, We too, in humble verse, would treat the theme, Ah! much lov'd friend! too soon thy beauties fade! But hark!....some voice celestial strikes mine ear, College of Philadelphia, September 7, 1754. J. DUCHE. ON THE SAME. CHECK, mournful preacher! check thy streaming woe, Pierce not our souls with grief too great to know; Thy pious sorrows, SMITH, to future days, Still, still I feel what thy Discourse imprest, } |