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Job Orion , was once his pupil , and held him , ever after , in great esteem . John Owen , who succeeded him at Warrington , was his sotij and attained to considerable eminence . Jeremy Owen , another learned and eminent Dissenting minister , was also of
the same family ; but I know not enough of him to descend to particulars , much as I wish it ; for the perusal of some of his works has long biassed iny mind , in no small degree , in his favour . Dr . Toulmin , I hope , in his intended publication will make us better acquainted with him and many others of our worthy predecessors , James Owen , after having spent some time at a country
school , was removed to a Mr . Picton , a quaker * , and an able scholar , who taught youth in Caermarthen Castle ; from whence he was sent to the Free-school of that town , ( a seminary of considerable note , ) then under the care of Mr . David Philips , who fitted him for university learning . Such was his proficiency
there , that he soon became the particular favourite of his excellent master , who looked upon him as a youth of uncommon hopes . He was always observed , even while at inferior schools , to be of a solid and studious temper . It was usual with him to sit up late at his book ; not only to prepare his task for the ensuing day , but to review and rivet more firmly in his mind the performances of the day past . This was looked upon by many as a sure presage of that eminence at which he afterward arrived ,
even in the opinion of his very enemies . From the early age of about 13 , play and childish diversions with him lost all their charms ; and he refrained from them altogether . His thirst after learning was so great that he applied to it with the most unwearied avidity ; knowing ( as his biogra ^ j ) hcr says , ) that there is no fruit in autumn where there has been no budding in the spring ; . It was about this time that he first
heard a Dissenting minister preach : the text was Mai . iv . ] . The sermon had an unusual effect upon his mind . It wrought hi hi sn uncommon seriousness , which never wore off as long as lie lived . The deep impressions which it made issued in his conversion , and he became a very remarkable instance of early piety , consecrating his youth to his honour who had inspired him with a just sense of the worth of his soul , and the importance of eternal things . —Having finished his classical studies , in which he was very well grounded , he went for instruction in
acadciliical learning to Mf , Samuel Jones , of Srynllywarch , in Glamorganshire , an accurate scholar , and a person of very strict piety : who was an ejected minister , and educated at
Ox" * It is rather a remaikable circumstance , that a Quaker was permitted to set up a c hool in the town of Caermarthen , in the persecuting reign of Charlc 6 II . ; however , worthy he might be , or well qualified for sfach an eniployme&t .
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1806, page 174, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1723/page/6/
