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K& £$ n jftlftfeUS , born " ¦^ $$ $ *!* W § h was tte son of an ^ ci ^ ailfe ^ Me tradesman reside " if ^ ef&unty ^ .. Yo ^ whose family JkatL reifcov £ eP > from Scotland . After an education at the grammar school of Rippon he
was entered at Christ ' s college , Cambridge , where , We have understood that he commenced as a servitor , ' or poor scholar . In 1752 heobtained the cjegree ^ f bachelor of arts , and in the same year ' was a successful candidate for one of
the gcrfd medals granted by the chancellor of the university for the best classical essays . The other candidate who gained a
medal was Jfclr , IVfcuseres , P ^ ow df the Cursistor ^ irpns and F « R . S . la 1754 , Mi ^ |^> jrteus was eject , fcdone of the esquire beadles of the university , kn pffew . ^ J Mch he
. ' ' The feev . ThoiiiasSeaton born at Stamford in Lincolnshire , " and who died » out ; tffatifSfo * ri $ \ &t ah tmtitU . " the ^ inivfersity of Caiabrid ^ e for ever ; the Ih ^** * ^ jp ^ ff d of yearly , as the vice-chancellor , the master of Clarc-haH , and ^! l £ t teck Pf ^ ' ^ W thp M tune being , o ^ any two of them shall agrfce . " T ? hc fit » t * Jffl ** M ^ % ' ^ flote Of ^^ A * > crfec tiot ? 8 or attributes of the Supreme Being-, ¦^ rwafcit the subiect shall be eiCl ^ errdeath ) judgment , heaVen , hell , purity of hc ^ rt , '';* fflb * mwg ^ moat conducive to the honour of thciu-Thc rent oJT the subject approved
* Wm ^^ estate to be disp o sctfof to ' ^^ Vm ^^ w ^ whose poem ^ m the given ^ shaU be be « t by them # Poem to be always in EngU 8 hrand td bepriotcd /* : " Mus P » Sea ^ nkiiai / - ^ ^ wyictc coUcction of the Cambridgcprizc pociws . ~ Ad . , 5 . 7 .
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resigned thq following year oslbecoming master x > £ arts and fellow of his college . He tic ^ &lso ad * y ^ ftced an important - step ijQi the rhad " of cKrieal preferaiei ^ t by
beinrg appointed * a preacher Jfct Whitehall , where he was onfe d ^ jf to be consecBated a " Right Reverend Father in Goi , ^ and m virtue of the alliance beLweeif . church and state , to become ^
lord of parliament . Whether h , Q might not even now , see in 3 . bright vision " jaxitre and crosier dancing i ^ his eyes > " we are unable to determine * .
In 1759 , » jTr . )? . was again a successful candidate ^ The Sear too « m prize * was Adjudged to him for his ^ Poem on- death which has been frequently reprinted ,, and is still deservedly popular . The following passage in this poem ha *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1809, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1741/page/1/
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