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ample satisfaction to the Editor , and reflect honour upon themselves .
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Manchester New College ^ removed to York . On Wednesday and Thursday , the 54 th and 25 th of June , the Annual Examination was held in the presence of Samuel Shore , £ sq . Samuel Shore , jun . Esq . President , Robert Drimeld , George Struct , T- B . W . Sanderson , Samuel Philip * , Esqrs . Messrs . Robert Kay ,
George Hampson , G . W . Wood , 1 reasurer , and T . H , Robinson , Secretary , and the Rev . Messrs . Astley , Da vies , Dean , Hawkes , Higginson , Kentish , Lee , Roberds , Severn , Yates and Turner , Visitor ; who were , throughout the whole , highly gratified with the proficiency made by the students under the able direction of their tutors . The
examination commenced each day at nine , and continued , with a short intermission for refreshment , till ha If ~ past five : the several classes being carefully led through the subjects which had come before them , in the coucte of their studies , during the preceding session , by a series of questions
concerning the nature of which they had act the slightest previous information > and by the reading of passages , chosen at the moment , from the Greek and Roman classics , and from the originals of the several books composing the sacred Volumes : the whole interspersed with orations , critical discourses and aermons ,
by all the students , except those in their first year , on subjects chosen by them-Klves , and none of them corrected , or even seen , by any of their tutors , previous to their delivery * . —If it were lair
* Mr * Wallace , on the different Effects Of Arguments on the Judgment , as a Ground of Candour , and mutual For-Vearance ; W *« Howsc , on the Character © fRichlieu ; , Mr . Holland , an Examination of Hww ' * Ps » av on Miracles ; Mb . ita&teQ , «* the Divine Au&ority of Mose * iMf . ^ trutt , on thcAdvantagea of theStu ^ y of Natqral History ; Mr Cook , oaLibwyof CpnscienceiMr . Bake well , * P . * il * Causftt which tended ta iafyse a , Spirit of Freedom in the British Constitution , af ^ an ^ PI ^^^^ P ^^ * rt * ° f Vntq **; Mr ^ Ashtofc * on the EXcstruction of the Canaanitea ; Mr * Sanderson , tli thc ^ ts ^ tffttto World at the Gbm ing
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original language and contents of which they shewed themselves to have attained a degree of acquaintance , which could scarcely have l > een expected at so early a period ; but which afforded a pleasing earnest of their being well-prepared for entering on the study of the more perfect dispensation of the gospel in the ensuing session .
to specify , where the whole was so creditable , itjmight be said that the students of the fourth year afforded particular satisfaction , by the clear and uuembarrassed manner in which they went through their long examination on the sources and rules of Biblical Criticism , and the practical exemplifications which they gave of each , out of the several books of the Old Testament , with the
The examination closed , as usual * with an address from the Visitor , which , at the request of the gentlemen present , is sent for insertion in the Monthly Repository " , Gentlemen , I now come to discharge my part , which I am happy to say continues fto be to myself a highly * pleasing part of this day ' s business . In the name of this assembly 1 congratulate your tutors , as well as yourselves on the result elf this long and satisfactory examination . We , each of us , have it
now our power to , our several friends the excellent state of this institution ; for students who are able to give so good an account of the course of study in which they have been engaged , and to exhibit such pleasing specimens of their talents for composition , on subjects connected with it .
must have been very carefully instructed : and it is a high satisfaction that we can carry with us the further report , that its discipline continues to be no less commendable than its proficiency . —If this should have been promoted , in any degree , by the more collegiate form in which you have this year resided , it will be a gratifying circumstance to those of Christ ; Mr . Lewis , on the Evidences of the Resurrectidri of Christ - y Mr . Man ley , a Sermon on Christian Union , from John xvii > oo , ai . Mr . George Kenricfy on the Christian Sabbath , from Gen . & % y 3 , Mr , Henry Turner , on the Sane tions of i the Mosaic Law , from Exod . xix . igmiL and Mr . Hutton on the Duty and Benefit of Searching the Scripture ?* from John v . 39 , ' i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 467, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/59/
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