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gtaation as superior to those of Sense ; Me . Philipps on Materialism ; Mr . £ . Higginsou od the Argument for the Existence and Attributes of God ( from the Constitution of the Human Mind ; Mr . Squire on the English Puritans from the Reformation to the Reign of Charles I . ; and Mr . Gaskell on the Final Prevalence
of Truth . Sermons were delivered by Mr . Martiueau , on 1 Cor . iii . 21—23 ; by Mr . Talbot , on Mark ii . 27 $ and Mr . Ketley , on 1 Tim . ii . 5 . The College prizes for diligence , regularity and proficiency were awarded , the first to Mr . Bache ; the second to Mr . Alfred Paget ; the third to Mr . Nicholson . Mr . Rhilt £ s * s , for classical proficiency , to Mr , Alfred Paget in the second year , and to
Mr . Nicholson in the first . Mr . Wood ' s ^ for proficiency in English composition , to Mr . Robert Mitford Taylor ; for the -best Oration to Mr . Hort ;* for the best delivery , to Mr . Gaskell . The Examination was closed by the following Address from the Visitor : " Gentlemen , I have so often addressed you , or your predecessors , on occasions like the present , that it becomes somewhat difficult to
And a variety of topics : but the vacancies which appear among yourselves , and ihe bereaved state of several of our chuijches , seem to render it neither un-. reasonable nor inexpedient to caution you against the danger of overstrained -exertion , or , as my late excellent friend , Mrs . / Lindsey ,,-t * once expressed the
seata-? N . B . This gentleman , having been three years a Student in the Belfast Academical Institution , was not considered , according to former usage , entitled to compete for the College-prizes offered to Students in the first three years ; but this could not prevent a " Friend to the
College , " well acquainted with his uniform diligence , regularity , and consequent great proficiency , from making him ( through the hands of the visitor ) a public acknowledgment of his merit , by presenting him with Sohmidii Concerdantiae , in N . T .
* f * Since this Address was delivered , the author has laid his hand on another letter of his excellent old friend , ( dated June 19 , 1604 , ) from which the followlog is an extract : " May I be permitted , in consequence of what Mr . 'F . told us , to admonish you oat to rain ¦ ¦ »* s health by too great confinement and application to his studies ? I am a zealous advocate for exertion ; but all bodies are not equally capable of It : and a constitution broken
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meat to anyself , * of overply ^ ng the machine . ' Men in every situation , and students among the rest , should consider themselves as members of society , and placed in their various stations in it by the Great Disposer , that they may apply the powers with which they are endowed , and the opportunities afforded to each respectively of improving those powers , for the general benefit ; and that even the most honourable , and , in
moderation , the most useful , modes of applying their advantages , are wasted and lose their effect , when pushed beyond the prescribed limits . And if studies are ever thus immoderately pursued from motives of mere self gratification , or from a love of fame and distinction , and not for the public good , they sink to a level with other exhausting pleasures , and often yield to the jaded mind as little satisfaction'in the review .
4 i I am aware that this will be thought by many a strange sort of advice to offer to young students , who from the vivacity natural to their age are generally thought to need the spur rather than the bridle . But I am not proposing to encourage you , gentlemen , in any neglect of study ; nor have I any reason to think that the
moderate plan of study which I would recommend , if steadily and regularly pursued , would tend to diminish the quantity of knowledge acquired , or would lessen your own enjoyment in its acquisition ox possession , or your . capacity of applying it usefully for the benefit of others .
" I presume not to say that the studies of any of those , whether students or ministers , whose lamented indisposition has occasioned these remarks , have been conducted irregularly , or that * they aue chargeable with anything but ( some of
them ) having undertaken more than it was possible for the limited powers of the human mind to perform . But I do say that , with a regular distribution of the hours of study , recreation and rest , ¦ and a steady observance of it in the ordinary course of life , time enough may be found for the acquisition of as much
down at an early period shortens usefulness at a more advanced one . I have also a full persuasion that all will be able to do the work appointed to them 5 but as future time is not in our ken , we must use -the knowledge we liave * to preserve 'health and lengthen our span , short at beat , but long enough , if reasonably employed , to enable ub to be in eome degree ready to begin again . "
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636 Intelligence . " —Mmohester Cblh&re , Yori
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1827, page 626, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1799/page/74/
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