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the Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language , and of several other works of acknowledged excellence on grammar and elocution ; as a professor of which he had , for nearly 40 years , deservedly held the highest reputation ,
and had amassed a competent fortune , by means equally honourable to himself , and beneficial to those in whose instruction he had been engaged ; but which would have been more ample , had not its accumulation been retarded by his repeated and extensive charitks . He had
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RELIGIOUS . UNITARIAN FUND . —The Annual Meeting of this Society will be held in l-ondon , on Wednesday , October the twenty Jtnt A . incre particular account of the time fend plate of meeting * dinner , &c . will
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be given in our next . The gentleman fir * t applied to , to preach the Sermon , ( the same alluded to in our Intelligence for April , p . % x % of the present vol . ) having declined the service on account of ill-health , Mr , Aspland has engaged to preach before the Society . N . B . Subscribers to the Unitarian
fund wrto have not paid their subscriptions for the present year are requested to pay them into the hands of Joseph Holden , Estj . No . j % > Lombard Street , Treasurer , or Rev . R . Aspland , Hackney , Secretary . Subscriptions will also be received ^ if more convenient to the members , by the gentlemen of tl * e
Committee , as under : — John Christie , Esq . Mark JLane ; Mr . JDavid Eaton , High Holborn ; Rev . John Evans , Islington ; Mr . Thomas Freeman , Dyer ' s Court , Aldermanbury ; Ebenezer Johnston , Esq . Bishopsgate Street ; Mr . John Sowerby , Catling Street ; Mr . W . Titford , Union Street , Spitalfields . Of whom also any information that is desired may fee had concerning the
Society . YORK INSTITUTION . —TheTrustees of the York Institution , h ^ i ve lately published their annual report , from Which it appears that , * at the balancing of the cash account ( on February the isd , the date of the original opening of the Manchester college ) the annual sub-Jcriptions amounted to zi \ l . congregati-
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been honoured with the patronage and friendship of Dr . Johnson , Mr . Edmund Burke and many oth ^ r of the most distinguished literary and professional characters of the age ; who respected and esteemed him , not more for the critical
and profound knowledge he displayed on the subjects to which he had devoted his enquiries , than for the conscientious adherence to principle , the manly avowal of opinion , and the undeviating rectitude of conduct , that marked every stage of his life . "
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onal collections to 96 / . 14 * . and the rents of the buildings in Manchester to 1417 . 1 5 * . The trustees propose , in the course of the present year to convert the rest of the buildings into dwelling houses , from which they expect a rent of 100 / , more . Since the above date there have been collections at Birmingham ,-Mansfield and Newcastle , a donation of 5 0 / . From an anonymous friend > of 10 / xox . from the Rev . T . Belsham , and of 5 / , from the Rev . B . Evans , and some very handsome annual subscriptions , from the 6 t
Rev . Dr . Disney , the Accidental Discoverer , '' and several friends to the institution at Liverpool , in all upwards of aoo / . as will be particularised in the next report . Several of these were sent witk a particular view to a third tutor , which is an addition desirable and even
necessary to carrying on the plan marked out for the education of the students , but the trustees do not think themselves warranted in the attempt to engage any gentleman in this capacity , till the permanent funds of the institution shall be adequate to the increased expense ; or till the annual subscribers become much more numerous
than thfcy now are . In the mean time if it should appear to any who coifsider the present number of students that such a » addition is superfluous , they wish it to be carefully observed , th at the labour of the tutors depends n 6 t on the number of stu * dents , hut upon the extent and variety of the subjects in which they are instructed , and the regularity with which the -appointed course ipursued .
^ In the present state of science and literature , it is justly efcpected that thef who are desij ^ ntd for the ministry in our religious societies ghotild be initiated *
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• 440 Intelligence . '—Unitarian Fund . — York Institution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/44/
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