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imagined and accounted for , by those who have felt a similar pleasure in studying the theory and constitution of languages in general . And he was too much of a real student , to skim over any subject to which he turned his attention , in a superficial manner . In the Greek Testament , the writer of this can assert , from personal knowledge , that his powers of immediate reference and quotation were similar to those which he possessed in the English translation . It was a favourite entertainment to converse with him upon Greek criticisms ; for he could in a . moment produce every place in which the same word , in any of Us forms or affinities , occurred ; and could thus assist , in . the most advantageous manner , in throwing
light upon what was obscure , and of making easy what before was difficult . In the Hebrew , with its several dialects , he was equally , that is , most profoundly skilled . It is believed * that his talent of immediate reference was as great here as in the Greek , . or even the English . But this is not positively asserted . This language he wrote , as indeed he did every thing else , with remarkable neatness of penmanship . The writer lias occasionally received letters from bin ) , in which were passages in Hebrew , which were not less striking ; for the felicity
of their adaptation , than for the beautiful manner in which they were written . There was a setness , and perhaps a degree of formality , in his English writing , which suited admirably well for the learned languages ; and , for short hand ^ in which his sermons were written .
The early , and the very strong attachment which Mr . T . formed for the Welch language is well known to his friends , and has often astonished and amused them . The writer of this well remembers " the overflowing delight manifested by his friend Mr . T ., upon receiving through his hands , almost forty years
ago , a Welch bible , from a gentleman near Wrexham ^ to whom he mentioned a commission from Mr . T . to buy one for him . The gentleman said , Mr . T . ' s father was kind to my son , when an apprentice at Halifax : I feel myself happy in being able to make a small return for that kindness , to his son . Will you take this Bible , of the best edition
extant among us , and present it to him , with my respects ,, and tell him , that it is an acknowledgment of his father ' s goodness to ; my son /' When Dr . Priestley went , in the year 1762 , to be married to Miss Wilkinson , whose father was an iron master
near Wrcxham , Mr . T . accompanied him as his groom ' s man . It had been settled , that in the performance of the marriage service , he should personate the father of the bride , by eiying
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Memoirs of the Eev . T . Thrtlkeld . . 171
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/3/
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