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    • THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Uterdture.
    • BIOGRAPHY.
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      MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF DR . JAMES FOSTER . MR . ( afterwards Dr , ) James Foster , a native of Exeter , the son of a fuller in that city , and a Dissenter , and the grandson of a clergyman at Kettering , in Northamptonshire , was born Sept , 16 ^ 1697 . His father received his religious principles from an uncle , by whom he was educated . His mother left the character of being one of the best of women .

      At the early age of five years , he was placed at the grammar-school in Exeter , under Mr . Thorpe , whose highest applause he secured by his rapid progress in classical learning . At this seminary he formed an intimacy with a school-fellow , afterwards Dr . Conybeare , whom he lived to see advanced to the See of Bristol . His academical studies were commenced and prosecuted

      under the Rev . Joseph Hallet , sen . in the same city , who generously patronised his youthful genius , by admitting him gratis to an attendance on his lectures , till he had finished his studies—a favour for which Mr . Foster ever expressed his gratitude . Several who afterwards made a distinguished figure

      received their academical learning under Mr . Hallet ; as his own son , theRev Joseph Hallet , eminent as a scriptural critic , and the cpr ^ tinuator of " the great" Mr . Pierce ' s < Paraphrase and Notes on the Epistles j" the Rev . Zechariah Mudge , who afterwards conforrned ; and the celebrated Dr . Huxham * , of Plymouth . His superior natural abilities , quick apprehension , solid

      • Dr . Huxhatn , the son of 3 butcher , wasa native ofTotness . He received liis grammar-learning under Mr . Gilling , a respectable and liberal Dissenting minister at Newton-Abbot- In 1 709 he became a pupil of Mr . Hallet , and went through the course *> f his seminary . He then studied a year and a half under J > r . Boerhaave , at I ^ eyden , where he applied to his medical pursuits with great diligence , and made the best improvement of his advantages and abilities . Whet he had gone through the course of lectures there , he removed to Rheims , in France , to take hi * decree , because it could be obtained on cheaper tcrmg there than atl ^ cyden .

      The Monthly Repository Of Theology And General Uterdture.

      THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Uterdture .

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      No . XIII . ] JANUARY . [ Vot . II-

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      VOL . II . B

      Biography.

      BIOGRAPHY .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2376/page/1/