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of Elphin . Mr . Paley gave lectures' on metaphysics , morals and the Greek Testament , and , after he had been tutor some years , on divinity : Mr , Law on mathematics and natural philosophy .
Mr . Paley was an able and very popular lecturer , adapting himself to the understanding of his pupils , and elucidating the most abstruse points by a frequent and happy reference to the images of common life . His delivery was
fluent ; his language strong and perspicuous ; his similitudes and illustrations were apt and familiar , and his general manner was also strikingly impressive . He
endeavoured always to excite the doubts and solicitude of his ptfpil % well knowing that it was more difficult to make young minds perceive the difficulty than understand the solution , and that unless some
curiosity were raised before be attempted to satisfy itj his labour would be lost . 'He usualiy commenced his lecture by questioning one of his pupils on some point m
that of the preceding d 6 y tha < £ he might &ave ftn opportunity of rera ovmg arty m isap ^ ehensian of what he ha $ already inculcat-i ed , and to fix the whole r * K > re firmly on their minds . His •
lectures on Locke wtfrfc delivered feo his pupils in their first year ; those * on liberals in their second and third years ; and his lectures on the Grefek Testament were given every Sunday and Wednesday evening , which were attended by
all tfoe under graduates , who in turn read and translated as many verses as the lecturer thought fit . He then gave the general seme of the whole , pointed out those passages which deserved peculiar attention , and explaining scripture
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by scripture , r accompanied thg whole with suitable moral exhortations * He avoided- disputed points ^ treated the thirty-nine
articles , as-mere articles of peace , and frequently urged his pupils to listen to the dictates of God , and not to those of men 9 and to call no one masted in religion , but Jesus
Christ-In the controversy on the pro- * priety of . requiring a subscription to articles of faith , Mri Paley * though attached to the reforming party ,. did oat sign the clerical petition for rtdief which was presented to the Mouseof , Commons
in 1772 , aifedgiiig , it * is said y >~ cuJarl y * as an apology , that ? he could not afford to keep a con - science , " No one cans suppose Mr . Paley meant by thisy $ liEase * that he acted comrtrary to , his enn ^ science ^ hut that lie did not feel
sufficiently ihe importance of the measure toifiaJke any sacrifice ioj ^ fct « Hie ; had been in the habit of explaining thpj articles in , a lax sense , he feit no uneasiness at laaving subscribed , and did not think himself .. called ^ idn < fcr a more exu
plkrit line ; of conduct . We ' . mity deploy tfee circumstance and ton ment that such a * man as < Mr . Paley bad not felt differently , yet we oahntot attach to , him any
blame ; lie isi not to be accused of any dereliction of p ^ inci pi ^ or want of integri ty * Mr . Paley was not however- a silent specta ^ tor in the controversy : axmms
others vvbo asserted th ^ ir * clai ms to relief was the late * veqerable and excellent bishop . ol < > Carlisl
who published without * Ji « B nUma a pamphlet , entitled . ** Consid ^ e * rations on the piM ^ trety of reqt * it > ing a subscripticw > to articles of faith * '' This was am ^ eredl by
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Memoirs of the Rev . Willifrm Paleyf I > . . & + l $ §>
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/3/
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