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BIOGRAPHY.
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BIOGRAPHY .
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IF mental powers and endowments , confessedly of the first order , have any claim to remembrance , certainly the subject of this memoir will not speedily descend into oblivion . It is but a very slight sketch which can here be offered ; but , such as it is , it will be interesting , if only for the dates and facts it furnishes to
those who either remember the extraordinary charms of his conversation , ( and who does not remember them that ever knew him ?) or have read and appreciated his eloquent writings . His writings indeed were not many or voluminous ; but his was the singular praise of establishing a splendid and durable reputation on publications , which , if the work of an ordinary mati ^ would not have survived the occasion that gave them birth . He was born at Sheffield , in Yorkshire , in January , 1732 and was the second son of William and
Hannah Radcliflfe of that place . At thv age of 12 years he had the misfortune to leap his father , a , man respectable' for hw property * nd situation in life * but mom
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distinguished for the universal esteem in which he was held for uprightness and moral worth . His mother , whom he always spoke of in terms of very peculiar respect
and affection , lived many years after this , and had the satisfi | £ > tion of seeing her son usefully and honourably settled in the world . He was initiated in classical learn
ing by the R % v . Mr . Cliffe , of Sheffield , and afterwards became a pupil of the Rev . Mr . Lowe , of Norton , in Derbyshire , with whom he read the Greek and Row man Classics , made himself master of Euclid , and studied Algebra and the ! Mathematics . At an early age he commenced his academical studies at Nortbamp . * ton , under Dr . Doddridge , with whom he continued till the
Doctor s death ^ in 17-51 , and iroin whom he derived advantages as a student in sacred literature , which it is the lot of few to enjoy . He had just gone through the whole
of his tujjp ' r ' s usyal course ftp students fn divinity , wh . fcir that excellent man wa £ eat off * in the midst of his pioxis lafcfonrs , to tli # t-ncitprct ^ iblc * gn « l of itl i the fri en ds
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MEMOIR OF EBKNK ^ ER RADCLIFFE , ESQ .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1707/page/1/
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