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of his parish church , in an obscure part of the country , but who was a prodigy of memory . This faculty he too is said to have acquired in a groat degree by art .
lie seldom forgot any remarkable thing that he heard ; and generally entered it in his com * non-place book . He could repeat exactly whatever he had written after a
single perusal . During the ringing of the bell he got a sermon by heart , and delivered it at church without the least hesitation . His custom was to write only the heads of his discourses , the other part being so strongly imprinted on his
mind that he frequently said , * If ten thousand people were quarrelling or fighting all the while he was preaching , they could not put him out / ' To try his ability , his old tutor , Dr . Parkhurst , proposed some of tfae most difficult and barbarous words
in a calendar ; and John Hooper , bishop of Gloucester , forty Welsh , Irish and foreign words ; but after reading them only once and a short recollection , he repeated them all by heart , backward and forward . And in the year , 1563 ,
Sir Nicholas Bacon , Lord Keeper , having read to him the latter part only of each of ton lines out ot Erasmus ' s paraphrase , in a confused and imperfect manner , he
sat silent a little while , and covering his face with his hand , immediately rehearsed all those broken parcels of sentences , in ( he direct and contrary way , without
any hesitation . What is still more surprising ., he professed to teach this art to others , and he raught it his tutor , Dr . Parkhurst , at Zurich , who , in the space of twenty-eight days , applying him-* clf only one hour each dav ,
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learned alt the twenty-eight chapters of Matthew ' s gospel , so perfectly , that he could repeat any verse in it , if he knew what went before and what followed it .
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' No . X . Truth a Contraband . Father ] : nlgcntio preaching at Venice on Pilate ' s question , What is truth f told his hearers , that at
length , after many searches , he had found it out , and held out a New Testament , and said that there it was in his hand ; bat then he put it in his pocket , and coldly said . But the book is prohibited .
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No . XL A Bigot , This word is formed from the German , bey and Got , or the English by God * Camden relates that the Normans were first called
Bigots , on occasion of their duke Rollo , who receiving Gissa , daughter of king Charles , in marriage , and with her the investiture of the dukedom , refused to kiss the king ' s foot ! , in token of subjection , unless he would hold it out for that
purpose ; and being urged to it by those present , answered hastily . c No , by God ; "" whereupon the king , turning about , called him Bigot ; which name has passed
from him to his people * It should seem , then , viewing the subject etymologically , that a bigot is one who , in the strength of his pride , curses and swears in the name of God . There is a
great deal of this spiritual profaneness , or , in other words , bigotry y in the world .
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No . Xil liuriai Service ,. Many of the appeals to the Committee of Dt ^ utiesinLondoift ,
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B 2 Gleanings .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1809, page 82, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1733/page/26/
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