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of real f rieby , - great learning , and an agreeable temper ; one . who is very diligent in instructing all under his care , very well qualified to give instructions , and whose well-mandged familiarity will always make him respected . He
is very strict in keeping good orders , and will effectually preserve his pupifs from negligence and immorality . And , accordingly , I believe there are not many academies freer in general from those vices than we are . In particular , my bed fellow , Mr . Scott , is ohe of
unfeigned religion , and a diligent searcher after truth . Hrs genteel carriage , and agreeable disposition , gain him the esteem of every one . Mr . Griffith is more than ordinary serious and grave , and improves more in every th-ing than bne coviW expect from a man , who seems t& be not much under forty ; particularly in Greek and Hebrew he has made a
great progress . Mr . Francis and Mr . Watkiris are diligent in study , arid truly religious . The elder IVTr . Jones having had a better education than they , will in ail probability make a greater scholar ; and his brother is one of quick parts . O& < Fogic ,, > h ? c& we have read once
over , is so contrived as to comprehend all Heereboord 9 and the far greater part of Mr . Locke ' s Essay , " and the " Art of Thinking . " tviiat Mr . Tories dictated fo us WasTiut short ' , containing a clear and brieT account of die matter , references to tHe places wKere it was more fully treated of , and remarks on , or
explications of , the authors cited , when Heed required . At our m ± t lecture we gfeMSan account both - of what the au * thor quoted' , and our tutor said , who commonly then g ^ ve us a larger explication of it , and so , proceeded to the ttext thing in otticrl fte took care ; as far as possible , that we understood the
sense , as well-a $ remembered the words , of what we had read , and that we should not suffer ourselves to Be cheated with obscure '' terms , Which had riomgartirig Though he bfe no great admirer of the old logic , yet he has taken & gjxat deal pf pains both in explaining and corrects mg Heereboord , and has for the most
part made . hkn intellieiblfe , 6 f shewn wat he'is not so . _ T ^ e two i Mh Jones ' s , Mn Francis ^ w . W atkins , Mr . Sheldon , and two more gentlemen , are to begin Jewish Anti quities in a short time , I was denned for orre of their number , but rac chose to rcadlocric once more ; both
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became I was trtterly unacquainted with it when I came to this place , anti because the Others having all , except Mr . Francis , been at other academies , will be obliged to make more ha > te than
th 6 se in a lower class , and consequently cannot have so good or large accounts of any thing , nor so-much time to study every head . We shall have gone through our course in about four years time , which I believe nobody that once knows Mr . Jones will think too long ,
f began to learn Hebrew as soon as I came hither , and find myself able now to construey and give some grammatical account ; of about twenty verses in the easier parts of the Bible , after less than an hour ' s preparation . We read everyday two verses a-piece in the Hebrew Bible , which we turn into orreek , ( nb
one knowing" which his verses shall be , though at first it wasother wise . ) And this with logic is our morning ^ s work . Mr . Jones also began , about three months a ^ o sOme critical lectures , in order to the exposition you advised him to . The principal things contained in them * are about the antiquity of the Hebrew
lariguag'e , letters , vowels , the in corrupt ion of the Scriptures , ancient divisions of the Bible > an account of : the Talmud , Mai sora , and Cabala . , We are at present upon the Septuagin t , Idnd shall proceed after that to the Targitminv , and other
versions , Sec . Every jiaxt is managed with abundance of perspicuity , and sel * dom any material thing is omitted that other authors have said upon the point ; though ver ^ frequently we have useful additions of things which aie not to be found in therh . We have scarce been
upon any thing , yet , but Mr . Jories ha * had those writers which are most valued on that head , to which he always refers us . This : is ^ vhat ive first set abou t iii the , afternoon ; which being finished , we read a chapter in the Greek Testa * ment , arid after that mathematics . We have gone through all that is commonly
taughtrtrf algebra * and proportion , \ i ith the eiirfiTBt books of Euclid , which is all Mrs , Jones designs for the gentlernen I mentioned above , but he intends to read tdmething more to the class that comei after them . This is our daily *
employftfcht , which in the morning takes up about two hours , and something more in the afternoon . Only on Wednesdays , in the morning * we read Dionysius ' s PefiegeBis , « on which we have notes mostly geographical , but with some criti-
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• Some Account of Mr . Samuel Jones . 653
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 653, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/3/
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