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MEMOIR OF THE REV . WILLIAM PALElf , D . D .
WE have in our last number given some account of the life of Dr . Paley by Mr . G . W . Meadley , which , notwithstanding the discouragement that he had to encounter , by persons who ought to have been forward in aiding him in so good a . design ^ we have pronounced an excellent work . We
shall now , according to our promise , Jay before the reader , a brief account of the principal incidents which occurred in the life of this great man ; for this we
shall be chiefly indebted to Mr . Meadley ' s volume , hoping that the selection that will be given in this publication , may induce a more general attention to the volume itself :
William Paley was born at Peterborough , probably in July 1743 , as his baptism is registered in the cathedral of that city , August 3 © th of the same year . His father being a schoolmaster he grew up and was educated under his
«* ye , and obtained the esteem and affection of his school-fellows by the liveliness of his disposition and the goodness of his heart . He frequently amused his young friends by niiinicking quack-doctors in vending their medicines ;
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and having been at the assizes at Lancaster , he was so much taken with the proceedings in the criminal court , that on his return to school , he used to delight in
presiding over other boys brought up before him as prisoners for trial ; and from this period he paid a marked attention to the practice of courts of justice and to criminal law . When he had
completed his fifteenth year he was admitted a sizar of Christ ' s college , Cambridge , but did not become a resident there till the latter end of the year 1759 , when being already very conversant
with mathematical subjects , he was excused from attending the lectures on algebra and geo - metry ; but he applied himself most assiduously to the other studies required by the university . On his first arrival from the
country , the uncouthness of his dress and manners excited the merriment of his fellow collegians , but the superiority of his genius and xhm solidity of bis attainments challenged their admiration and esteem . In the year 1762 , he was called on tm fix upon two questions to discuss and defend publicly : he
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VOL . IV . 2 A
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology an d General Literature .
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No . XL . ] APRIL . [ Vol . IV .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/1/
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