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' v ,- it , j . - . ' * * . ' . : other studies . In history , for instance , he chose such porti co * of Herodotus , as might iUustmte thdse parts of the Old Testarfient which were connected with * fAssrffr
ria and Egypt ; the fine fanetfal orations of Thucydides , Plato and Lysias ; the contest between lie * mosthcnes and JEschines ; tl | e philosophical and tthjca ) treatise of Plato ^ Aristoti ^ Epictetu s , Marcus Antoninus and Max . Wyz * f
uiiis * with Amtotles Pt > etic and Rhetoric , and Longitiusi Inpo-< etry t the Odyssey in preference to the Iliad , sotrie parts of Hesiod , and the three Greek tragedians , of whom be was very fond * la Latin , Lucretius * Ltrca , n , Statius ,
Persius and Juvenal ^ among the poets r the philosophical and moral treatises of Cicero and Seneca , Taeitus , the two Plinys and Quiijw tilian , in prose . When tbere ^ w «| Ke several young men designedt ^ br the law . he , more thsn-Otice ^ tedH
fHith them Justinian ' s InstUutes . In reading the ancient poets ^ JiJs extensive acquaintance witb * £ anodern poetry enabled hiirttb * -eitUv « n his lectures with parallel passages , and his fine taste to ^ dw ^ ll with peculiar delight , and impress
upon the minds ofi : hjM * fmfalsj those passages of either anciem or modern poets , which ^ ppea t ^ d most striking for noble sentiments or just reflections . In reading the philosophical treatise ^ of the an * cients * be enlarged sd much ^ to
render his lectures al most ase ^ ond course , in a varied farray ; of [ natural religion and ethics * And / he all along , made it a-pripcip ^ l o bject ,- i incidentally itOi / illMStrftte scnpture ^ passages ^ by tlie heajtfecn writ ^ rs ^ cmd to | w > int ^ wt t ^^{ |^ riaTuyx aferiC ^ ri 5 ti »» &m $ i $ &ihpn 4 > btt ^ pfc # ^ orf 1 & * T- < 'V ^ . ^ . tffi / ^ t '» . U Ui I *** - - \ . ' - > ' tt * .. & * ' * y *
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sp $ 4 n 6 swf c < Hnposition , whether historical , oratorical or philoso-^ i © at / s aP proae ^ &tj if poetry , ^ p i < 5 ^ dram atic , iyric ^ satirical , Aei These preliiiiinaries dispatch-&d || 4 t& raad ^ the ^ tudents read sue ^ es&ivfelyy paragraph by paragraph , XM&eti bis correction , the author
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¦ Historical Account of the Warrington Academy * 165
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 165, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/17/
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