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172 Memoirs of the Rev . T . Thrtlkdd .
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her away . Unfortunatel y ^ upon entering Wrexham chureft , Mr . T . delighted with the idea of being now able , for the first time , to gratify hi * passion for the Welch language at the fountain head , had buried himself in a large and lofty pew where he had found a bible , and was deeply engaged in studying it , when he was wanted at the altar . The service was at a stand : the father did not appear to give away the bride : a hue and cry was set up after him ; and at length he was discovered in his hiding place , ignorant of what was passing , and unconscious of any thing , but of the pleasure of reading his favourite language .
What ha& been thus far mentioned , forms but a very small part , as to number and extent , of the inventory of what was treasured , up in the rrfemory of Mr . T . That faculty of hi * mind which so readily combined words with ideas , still more remarkably united facts with dates ; and numbers with names and with incidents . In history , Mr . T \ , had , with aa accuracy , an extent , and a quickness equal to what W 6 have seen in the English bible , and in the languages ^ -joined so perfectly names , places , and events , with the year , the . month s and the day to which they severally belonged , that
they lay in his mind in regular order , and in inseparable connection , ready to be produced in a moment , in any cornpany , and upon any occasion * He was a chart of history ; ths bearings , the distances ^ and the parts of which , even im their minuter subdivisions , were laid down , with wonderful exactness * Of his accuracy in English History ,, the writer can best speak from personal knowledge : and he believes he can truly s &y * that he could at once assign the date to almost any person or fact recorded in it , with undeviating correctness .
Chronology isi a subject so necessary to be int-HTiatcly known by those who are much conversant with historical dates ^ especially relating to ancient times , that it might be presumed that one so well acquainted with these , could not be slightly versed in it . In all the methods of counting time , from the earliest antiquity , Mr . T . was critically skilled . Xhey came before him so frequently , that they were quite familiar to him-And he must have had , from hence , the art of adjusting the different epochas and periods cinploypd in ¦ aiitri . eHt and modem
computation , readily to each other : for he could with ease , / after a little recollection , give you aa ancient date , according to the years , months , anxl days of modern reckoning . But the most disting u ishing excellence of Mr . T . ' s memory lay in biograph y * It had been the business of a longv and uncommonly studious life , to collect the dates of the . births , marriages , and deaths , of all the persons mentioned in history *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1807, page 172, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2379/page/4/
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