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history of Rome occurs , to which succeeds &ibbon ' s decline and fall abridged , by the author of the preceding . But this
abridge-? ne / it 9 which , in every view , js truly excellent , was made , if our recollection be accurate , by Mr . Hereford . The justness of
the biographer ' s encomium on Mekegan ' s history of modern Europe , and of his censure of the translation of it by Fox , we can attest from our perusal of both * p . 7 ^ m '' - We further concur with him
in opinion that Mr . Wood ? s method of teaching geography was peculiarly excellent ; nor can we suppress the wish of seeing * an elementary work , formed upon his principle :
" Geography—signifies a description f the earth , including its general form , and the divisions which have been made upon its surface , either by the hand of nature or by the institutions of men . His first object therefore , agreeably to this definition * was to make his pupils
accurately acquainted with the part which nature had performed . With a map of the world before him , he pointed out to them the four great receptacles of all the waters which diversify and fertilize the surface of the earthy \\ e then traced every smaller receptacle or
basin formed by the confluence of many streams , and falling generally through , one m , outh into the oceap ; and from the character and situation of these , he taught his pupils how to judge of the other natural features of the globe , such as the elevation of the land , an& the course which that elevation follows . "
PP- 75—79-As a member of society , Mr , Wood brought no discredit on the other important characters which he was called to sustain . He had
« arly imbibed the love , of civil and religious liberty , and was firml y attached by subsequent Conviction , to the genuine principles of the British constitution .
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Proofs of this attachment his bio - grapher has recorded '< n pp ^ 5 : *—* 65 , 129—131 . Feeing t alto ourselves , from experience of the
practical advantages of tl e form of government undev which it is . our happiness to live , we rejoice t h a t su c h a ma n was an en I i gh ten ~> ed and zealous and steady patrior ; and we should do some injusica to the state of our minds if we
did not embrace this occasion of declaring it to be our hope ^ -a& it was his , that the Protestant Dissenters will never again repeat their request for a repeal of the
test laws , nor quarrel with the great and substantial good which their native land offers to them , in common with all her other
children , because she adds to it a trifling inconvenience and has given them a slight affront . " Sufficient has been said to p ' ro v * that Mr . Wood was a well informed believer in divine revelation z
aiid in several parts of the memoirs , we meet with facts which illustrate the influence of his Christian faith upon his temper ^ manners and character . In the
bosom of bis famil y ^ and among his pupils , in the intercourses of personal friendship , and in bis connexion with the religious society of which he was pastor , in his patronage of every laudable undertaking which it was in his power to assist , but especially of institutions for the education of
ministers among that clj ^ ss thj £ non-conformists to which he be * longed , in his cheerful enj oyment of the blessings of life , and in his exemplary resignation under very heavy domestic afflictions , we find him at once highly estimable * and amiable . Testimonies to his distinguished excellence we ourselves
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Mevie& + —Menfoir $ of the late Retu W . Woo 3 . 2 £ 5 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1809, page 225, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1735/page/49/
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