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cism * intermixed ; and in the afternoon we have no lecture at all . So on Saturday , in the afternoon , we have only a thesis , -which none but they who have done with Jogic have any concern in . We are also just beginning to read Isocrates and Terence each twice a week .
On the latter , our tutor will give us some notes , which he received in a college from Perizoiiius . We are obliged to rise at five of ~ the dock every morning , and to speak Latin always , except when below stairs amongst the family . ' The people where we live
are very civil , and the greatest inconvenience we suffer is , that w £ fill the house rather too much , being sixteen in number besides Mr Jones . , But I suppose the increase of his academy will oblige him to remove next spring . We pass
our time very agreeably betwixt study , and conversation with our tutor , who is always ready to discourse freely of any thing that is useful , and allows us either then , or at lecture , all imaginable liberty of making objections against his opinion ,
and prosecuting them as far as we can . In this , and every thing else , he shows himself so much a gentleman , and manifests so great an affection and tenderness for his pupils , as cannot but command respect and love . I almost forgot to mention our tutor's library , which is composed for the most part of foreign books , which seem to be very well chosen , and are every day of great advantage to us .
Thus I have endeavoured , Sir , to give you an account of all that 1 thought material or observable amongst us . As for my own part , I apply myself with what diligence I can to . every thing which is the subject of our lectures , without preferring one subject before another ; because I see nothing we are engaged in ,
but what is either necessary , or extremely useful , for one who would thoroughly understand those things which most concern him , or be able to explain them well to others . I hope , I have not spent my time , since I came to this place , without some small improvement , both in
human knowledge , and that which is far better , and I earnestly desire the benefit of your prayers , that God would be pleased to fit me better for his service , both in this world , and the next . This if you please to afford me , and your advice with relation to study , or whatever else you think convenient , must needs fee extremely useful , a& well a * agreeable ,
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and shall be thankfully received By yonr most obliged humble servant , T . SECKER . Mr . Jones ' s situation at Gloucester being too confined for the number of his pupils , he removed about the spring of 1712 , to Tewkesbury , in the same county , In that town , an academical
institution had been supported for some time by the Rev . James Warner , a dissenting minister , who dying about this period , a good opening presented itself for Mr . Jones ' s removal . Of this Mr .
Warner , I have not hitherto met with any biographical information ; l ? ut , have a small mezzotihto portrait of him , which , I believe , is scarce . He was father to Dr , Ferdinando Warner , aathor of an
Ecclesiastical History , " and of a History of Ireland , " each in two volumes ; and grandfather to the late Dr . John Warner , author
of a learned tract on the Pronunciation of Greek . In some biographical work that I have seen , Mm Warner is said to have been the tutor of Seeker ; but this I
apprehendvto be a mistake . I have met with one sermon of his , entitled , " Salvation , and the necessary M ^ ans of . it considered / 1 with a preface by Mr . Benjamin Robinson .
At Tewkesbury , Mr . Jones continued to support his academy with increasing reputation . A short time previous to his decease , he entered into the matrimonial state with a Miss Judith Weaver , whose
name has occasioned some mistake jn Mr . Jones ' s history . In the last edition of the " Nonconformists' Memorial / ' under the article Radnorshire , South Wales , Mr . Jones is said to have married ths
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654 m Some Account of Mr . Samuel Jones .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1809, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1743/page/4/
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