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    S $ KW ^ a * Kfc tba fate Sydney Hollis Iio y ^ Esqm . ; aod ? tfitnee ~< rts remo . y $ aA | tp yprff ^ - feofti tfaw venerable Theaphili ^ s luindsey , and

    MartinaduJtei Goftstable , Esq . ); so that it is , now t > ecome a > very extensive and v ^ . 1 liable - li bra ry 2 it is stilly however , deficient in many important rete pec ts . it were to be wished that a correct catalogue of its contents were printed ™ and if the

    4 esiden € tnda r io the several classes , were . added in italics ^ it would $ < Brv £ . as- a , , guide , ras ~< well to the Committee of the institution in the application of their own ftrods , as tp ., th <^ e who < ^ Tiigkt be disposed to h $ ben

    ag ^ i f ^ it efactions .- Many p ^ rsp ^ s would then find v on a com . p ^ ipgon of sii ch a ca talogue wit h iJ > ei ) C ; Own ( bat ; several books were wanting in ^ ;< jf wJiich they had duplicates ^ ) bp --wiiicb they might

    no , tf particul ^ rly value : > " executors 2 ^ oi : ^ 1 ut hei representatives of d ££ ea $ eil persons , ¦ , might thus be fu ^ ft&h ed with an , easy method of qfK ) li | l ^ jthi $ library ^ without any , ox / * with , 4 t ^ e ? J easrt pgssible loss to

    £ ) fctbp # Qt , k o £ Octoter , 1757 , the trwtqe > held a general meeting , at w ^ ch ; he two tutors already electe 4 , rproduced their plan of tuition , and their regulations for the govpfnment ofitbe academy : and on

    tht ?> 23 ^ , rrii- wa » opened , for the iuift nionU » - with three ; students only , who were afterwards increased tpt ftve t ^ e wh ^ le number daring the first jrear ; the two tutors dividing between them , during this

    H ^ kt ses sion , the business intended fojvtjke third tutor * Dr . Taylor tak * iog the classics and moral philosopto yiWW& ^ r . Hol t , logic ; , metau ftlMto ^^^^ '< ' < ¦ ' «< - Perhaps the pFesen ^ may be sis eonvenient a place as any for at .

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    tempting ' to st ^ te the ^ nafihieif ^ wfeicfr Dr / Tayfbr ex&biffecT ' tK | duties of his offices ' n a ^ tUtor iti dll vinity , as far as it can be asce ^ tained at such a distrfnee ^ of tfnle :

    From the hfgh character which he justly bore , as a donsummate Hebrew scholar , it may be presumed that he would be very careful thoroughly to ground his piipib in the knowledge of this sacred tongue . This appears accordingly

    to have been the case : frtfm the papers with which the p resent writer has been favoured By'tUb Rev . Thomas Astley , of CJheWter ^ field , his only surviving pupil iti these branches of leatnitlg , it is

    evident that , in addition to the or * dinary modes of gramniati&aT instruction , he drew out for ikttofc and caused them to copy anrf get by heart , a sort of sabred vocabulary , containing copious arid elk * borate lists of the vaiibtis Hebrew

    denominations of persons , things , relations , qualities , &c . distinguishing the various syrionymsy ^ iin their different shades of in&tnhj £ and often suppiyhig the cfe ^ rref . pendent Greek tiataitf in tW ^ ^ p i tuagintand Nevr TeitihienU He

    afterwards ^ ve therh a ^ bWs fe oT lectures , on the idiomatic phfaseology of the Hebreur fefcriptares ; at the same titaie pointing out tKe

    influence which these idioms frequently have upon theGVeek of tbe New ^ Testament , and the necessity of bdrtg kc&u ( iiti t * & with and constantly ^ i tt ^ diti ^ b , tfreip , in order to i > btaifl ° i [ 'f&i iflea of t h ® exaet ^ ertsS iff n ttany ba ^ w ^ es in the New ^ es t ^ tne ^^« t # is : m

    rul ^ s atid obscrvaH 6 ^ conU } nea in chefo * temtte ] ^ M&e HfSstraild by a viit # 6 rtM > dt % t 6 ld& 6 m from b&insftttXsW ^ Victed vol uoae ^ as well as by many froiri th «

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    Historical Account of the Warrington Academy . 87

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1813, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2425/page/7/