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During the . whole course , one lecture was . given 1 weekl y ^ to all the divinity-students together , on the / Hebrew scriptures , and one on . the Greek Testament ; in which the students construed ,
successively , their respective portions © f the sacred text , and the Dr . entered into a minute critical doctrinal and practical explanation of each passage . > In this way some considerable portion , but very far short of the whole of either
Testament ^ was . got , through in the five years ^ cojuis ev What was done , however , it must be confessed , was very thoroughly and well done .
Every Saturday , the divinitystudents were expected to bring the exercises which had been prescribed to them , or which they had chosen for themselves . These
for the students of the first year , wer 6 generally essays on subjects connected with their course , or Latin translations , or short original essays in that language ; in
the second and third years , they were schemes or skeletons , . more ; or less clpthecl , of sermons ; in the fouTth and fifth , sermons at length and , sometimes , critical dissertations * These were read by the
students , and carefully criticized by the tutor ; the defects of com * position and method pointed out ; . and , often , -references made to preachers of reputation , French or English , who bad treated the
same text or subject . Sometimes , when the subject interested him , he , would | ay out a method of his own , and , in a happy strain of dignified eloquence , pursue -the subject , exttmppre , to a considerable extent . / . After the exercises
were exajmined , he wpuld generally turn to some of the finest passages of the English poets , Milton ,
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Pope , Thomson , Young and Akenside ; and , having first himself read a considerable portion , with singular propriety of tone and emphasis , he heard each of the
students read in order , and freely , but good-humpuredly , commented on their manner of reading , pointed out their defects , and the proper mode of remedying them . —This lecture was often the most
satisfactory and improving of any in the whole week . But the advantages which the students derived from their tutor , were not confined to the
lectureroom : he had frequent small par . ties to drink tea with him , when he was accustomed quite to unbend , and enter with them into the most free familiar
conversation . Then was the time when difficulties were most freely com * municated , and with the most unwearied patience , listened to and obviated ; his opinion of books , or of courses of residing on particular subjects , was asked and
frankly given : sometimes ( but this wa $ generally when youjiger students were of the party ) he took
the lead in the conversation , and himself pointed put books which might be read wit { i advantage ; and frequently he enlivened the social hour with anecdotes of his
own youthful years ; of the difficulties which had occurred in the course of his own studies , and how he had surmounted , or . suffered by them J of the varieties of
character among his fellow students , and ( by way , sometimes of encouragement , sometimes of warning ) the manner in which they had turned out in the subsequent periods of Jife . ; v This excellent man lived always in perfect harmony with his col-
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HisCorical Account of * the fVarrington Academy . 1 & 9
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 169, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/21/
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