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    sensibility to all the domestic charities , which is seldom found in those who are early separated from them , and for the unsullied

    purity with which he passed through every period of life . His father , at length , though he intended him for the Church , placed

    him at the Dissenting Academy of Warrington ;; a seminary ihen very flourishing , and frequented by many of the establishment , whose parents wished to avoid both the

    expense and the hazard to morals of a university education . Here , with a mind previously imbued with a love of literature , and already well accustomed to argument and discussion , he entered with ardour into all the studies of

    the place , and found a new world of ideas opening upon him . His theological studies were conducted by the Rev . Dr . Aikin , then the Divinity Tutor , whose learning , candour , diligence and talents as an instructor of youth , have

    seldom been equalled ; but it was a natural consequence of such a course of instruction , that a spirit of inquiry should be raised in the young student , which might turn out unfavourably to his future destination . This , in fact , proved to be the case . —Mr . Barbauld did

    not however , relinquish his own prospects , and disappoint the expectations of his friends with the petulance of youth , or the bitterness of party . After finishing his

    course at Warrington , he carefully and candidly discussed with his father , every argument presented to him in favour of entering into the establishment ; but , fixed in what he believed to be the truth , and too ingenuous to accept of any of those subterfuges by

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    which not a few have been able to reconcile it to their , consciences to officiate in a churchy the tenets of which they disbelieved , he

    finally relinquished his expectations from that quarter , and entered into the ministry amongst the Dissenters . He first preached for about a year , to a small congregation at Highgate ^ and . then , upon his marriage with the daughter of Dr . Aikin , in 17 ^ 4 , removed

    to Palgrave , a village in Suffolk , and accepted the charge of the neighbouring congregation of Diss , in Norfolk . Here , be opened a school , which soon became a very flourishing one , and many now living can bear testimony to the care and fidelity with which he fulfilled the task of tuition , and

    the taste far beyond the common routine of a school , which was mingled with the grammatical studies . After continuing in this laborious employment for eleven years , he relinquished it for the congregation of Ilampstead , where

    he officiated , taking occasionally a few private pupils , till his-re ^ moval to Stoke Newington , where with an affectionate congregation , who v * ill long cherish his memory , he continued till a little before his death , when the

    connection was broken by one oi those awful visitations , to which human nature can only bow with helpless and silent resignation . The scenes of life Mr . Barbauld passed through were common dries ,, but- his

    character was not a common one . His reasoning powers were acute , and sharpened by exercise ; for he was early accustomed to discussion , and argued with great clearness ; with a degree of warmth indeed , but with the most perfect

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    Memoir of the Rev . R . Barbauld . 7 O 7

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/15/