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veritas in vultu ! quantum pond us in verbis ! nuam nihil non consideratum exibat ex ore !* * A monument was erected to his
meteory in tbfe Dissenters ' chapel at Wafiihgton , at the expence of the trustees of the academy , which bears the following inscrip . tion , written bv Mr . Wakefield .
¦ ¦' . . ~ ~ M : S . Reverends Viri Joannis Aikin , D . D . In Academic WarringtonianA Primo Liteparum Humaniorum , Deinrfe Theologize Per Annosviginti tres Professoris .
^ Judlicio impnmis iimato , Candida , subtili , I ^ beralium p ^ nitiorumque doctrinarum disciptina InstructissimL Comis , Benevolus , Pius , Et Homiriis et Christian ! munera CumulatissimS explevit * Obiit die quarto decimo Decembris Ajqdo Saiutis 1780 . < £ tatis 67 . Academiae Curatores Honoris ergo Ponendum statuerunt .
After the beautiful passage from the most elegant of Roman writers which had been previously applied to this ' all-accomplished character , perhaps the classical readers of the Repository will pronounce it to have been a bold attempt , to delineate so much excellence in other
words of the same language . They * probably , will think that Mr . Wake field has been more success ful , and certainly the generality of your readers will be better pleased with the following
character of his friend and colleague , in his native tongue . * " Our Divinity Tutor , Dr . Aikin , was a gentleman whose endowments , as a man and as a scholar , according to my sincere ?
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judgment of him , it is not easy to exaggerate by panegyric . In his life he was rigorously virtuous , and , when I knew him , under as perfect a self-government as a participation of human weaknesses can well allow . He has
acknowledged to me his irascible propensities in early life , and the difficulties which he had encountered in this discipline of his temper .
Religion had brought every wayward idea and irregular passion into subjection to the laws of reason , and had erected her trophy in the citadel of his mind . —As
his whole conduct was strictly moral , so the influences of religion upon his mind were permanent and awful . He was benevolent and candid in all his judgments on the characters of others ; of great
hospitality , as I myself experienced ; quick to discern , and ready to acknowledge , true merit , wherever it resided £ not tenacious of his own opinions , hut patiently attentive , beyond almost any man
I ever knew , to the rea&pniugs . of an opponent ; perfectly open to conviction ; of an affability , softened by a modest opinion of him .. self , that endeared him to all ; and a politeness pf demeanour seldom found even in an elevated
station . " His intellectual attainments were of a very superior quality indeed . His acquaintance with all the evidences of revelation , with morals , politics , and metaphysics , was most accurate and extensive ;
Every path of polite literature had been traversed by him , and traversed with success . lie understood the Hebrew and French languages to perfection ; and' had . an intimacy with the best authors of Greece and Rome , superior to what
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Historical Account of the Warringion Academy . 171
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 171, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/23/
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