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HISTORY & BIOGRAPHY.
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SOME ACCOUNT OF MORGAN ^ COMMONLY CALLE D PELA- * CIUS 2 WITH A SKETCH OF THE STATE OF CHBISTIANITY IN WALES FROM HIS TIME TO THAT OF WICKLIFFE ,
¦ * I HAT Pelagius was a Briton , is allowed on all hands * cc All X ancient writers" ( says Wall ) " style him a Briton ; and we understand by St . Austin , ( Ep . 106 adPaulinum ) that hewa $ commonly called Pelagius Brite Pelagius the Briton , to distinguish him from another Pelagius that was of TarentmnS * He is &aid to have been educated at the celebrated monastery o *
college of Bangor in Flintshire , of whose order or constitution many remarkable things have been related . The rqoi * k $ or students were said to be divided into twenty-four classes or com- * panies ^ consisting of so many hundred persons . Each class ojr company spent an hour daily in devotional exercises , which
was done in regular rotation , so that the whole twenty-rfour hours were employed in acts of devotion or divine worship ., by one part or other of the community . The rest of the time of each class was regularly spent or distributed between sleep , lite * - rary pursuits and agricultural , manual or mechanical labours
so that it might be said that they supported themselves or subsisted by their own industry and the sweat of their brqws . Iij . this seminary Pelagius ' s literary proficiency seems to have beei £ wry considerable ^ for he appears to have acquired a completes knowledge of the Latin and Greejk languages ^ and of all the
different branches of learning then deemed most necessary and reputable ; which is more than could be said of'mogt of the Fathers , as they are called , of that period ,, St , Austin himself not excepted : St- Jerome was perhaps almost \\ % e only excep ^ - tion . He was very learned > and at the same tune very uncour * teous , illib e ral and abusive to all who differed from hiiQ , or wft | whom he had any dispute j of which Pelagius and his friend ^
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Tftai MONTHLY REPOSITORY OP Theology and General Literature .
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Ko . XXII . ] OCTOBER . ( Vol . tf .
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VOL . II . 3 X
History & Biography.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/1/
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