On this page
-
Text (3)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
by no means so coin for table as the succeeding five , which were followed by the stormy session of 1797 , 1798 , after the close of which the Institution was . removed to Wymondley , The situation of superintendent Tutor of a Dissenting Academy is known , by those best capable of judging , to be one which requires a happy combination of
talents , temper , and habits , wliich are to be met with iu comparatively few men . In Mr . Horsey they existed iu a very respectable degree ; he was a good disciplinarian ; he had a happy method of communicating knowledge and exciting the youthful mind to useful inquiry . He was courteous in his behaviour , and
though he never lost sight of the respect due to his station , he did not , by overacting the part of the Tutor and Hector Academes , keep at unreasonable distance youths who possessed a tolerable share of good feeling and well-regulated affections . A young man under his superintendence must have been guilty of very censurable conduct if he did not find in
Mr . Horsey the judicious , discriminating , and affectionate friend and adviser , as well as the successful promoter of his pursuit of those branches of knowledge which were to prepare him for the proper discharge of the duties of a Christian minister . He had a judicious mode of directing the attention to the point on
which difficult subjects in Metaphysics and Divinity hinged ; and his plan of lecturing , on disputed points , in both those branches , was quite exemplary in one particular view ; he was so anxious not to give an undue bias to his youthful auditors , that it was very difficult to ascertain in the lecture-room his own precise views iu the more controverted
subjects . In the freer intercourse of the parlour and social circle , his conversational talents were of a superior order j he was cheerful without descending to censurable levity , he had a fund of amusing and instructing anecdotes , and he was very successful in a branch of entertainment in which so many clever men fail—A mean thai'of telling a story well .
A ** a Christian , his views of the paternal character of Jehovah produced in him habitual , cheerful piety , and his full conviction of the harmony of the Divine attributes inspired habitual acquiescence iu all the arrangements of Providence respecting him , aud exemplary resignation to the will of ' God in his afflictions .
In the relation of husband , father , and friend , he excelled . WJe nleaiory will continue to t > echfcri »| n : d by his remain-
Untitled Article
ing pupils with esteem and affection ; his children and more immediate connexions will fondly an 4 affectionately cherish the recollection of his varied excellencies , aud hie congregation , who enjoyed his public services for so long a period , will express their high sense of his ministerial faithfulness , by proving to the world that his labours were not in vain . tf .
Untitled Article
f ) iO Obituary . — ' Duke of Rwhffoucauld-ltiuncourt
Untitled Article
Mar . 28 , at Paris 9 at the advanced age of 81 , the Duke of La Rochefoucauld-Li an court , Peer of France , Member of the Institute ( the Academy of Sciences ) . In this great and good man the sacred cause of humanity has lost one of its best friends and defenders . His whole
life was employed in benevolent and patriotic exertion . Vaccination was introduced into France through his means , and for twenty years he never relaxed his efforts to render it universal . He was also the chief founder of schools upon the improved principle of mutual instruction , and helped to set on foot a society for the express object of advancing elementary education . He established the Schools of Arts and
Manufactures at Compiegne , at Chalons , and at Angers , and presided over the formation of the Conservatory of Arts and Manufactures at Paris . His active benevolence was employed in regulating and improving the management of prisons and hospitals ; and he attended likewise to many institutions set apart for the reception of deserted and friendless children . Weakness , poverty , old
age , and misfortune , found in him a constant and devoted friend . The powerful assistance he rendered to industry was felt in the legislative chambers , and in all councils whereof he was a member ; in the society for the encouragement of national industry , and more particularly in the commune of Liancourt , where his advice and example gave a great impulse to the whole district . A little work
called the Statistics of the Canton of Creil , proceeded from his pen , although his excessive modesty prevented him from publishing It with his name , it contains an account of all improvements in agriculture , in manufactures , in education and the arts of life , which took place in that part of France which he inhabited . There was also another
Society of great and good men to which he W ^ s warmly attached , and a field where virtuous aid benevolent feelings weie
Untitled Article
Duke of La Rochefoucauld-LiAncourt .
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/58/
-