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registers was to be drawn up and sent once a quarter to the Committee , kwho were to cause such reports to be forwarded to the
parents or guardians of the students ; and if this should not be effectual , they were to proceed * in the next instance ^ to expulsion .
On the death of Mr . Sccldon , * the congregation of Protestant Dissenters #% t Warrington , and the Trustees of the academy , concurred in inviting the Rev . William
Enfield to be his successor , as pastor to the former , and as Tutor in the Belles Lett res , and Rector Acadefnice in the latter . The Life * of this amiable friend has
beg » already so well written by DjrafAikin , that the present writerwill best satisfy his readers , by ^ IP short abridgment of that excellent piece \) i biography , i * with the addition , as he proceeds , of a few remarks , particularly on academ ~ ical concerns . The Rev . William Enfield , LL . D . was born at Sudbury in Suffolk , March 29 th , 1741 , of parents in humble life , but respectable fortheii virtues . Mis amiable
dispositions and promising parts , recommended him to Mr . Hextal , the minister of the place , who directed his education , and greatly contributed to the purity of his style , and the general elegance of
• This , the author has since been informed , from the best authority , that of a relation and a friend , Mho was with him to the Ia 6 t , was not by a fever , But by an apoplectic stroke , which seized him while on horseback ; he survived
his fall only ei ght hours , shewing marks of his usual affectionate disposition to the last moment . He was born Dec 8 , 1 7 24 , ordained at Warrington Dec , 8 , 1747 , and died Jan . 22 , 1770 . f Ehftelds ' Posthumous Sermons * voL
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his turn of thought , by leading bi n * to an early acquaintance with our best poets , particularly Akenside . He passed through his academical course at Daventry , and
immediately after its conclusion , settled as Pastor to the congregation at Benn ' s Garden , Liverpool , where he was ordained , in Nov . 1763 ; a few years after he married a lady who still survives him . In 1768
and 1770 , he published two volumes of Sermons , the ^ ag ^ elegance arid pleasing moral §|| p | ri of which recommended them to the
adoption , it has been shrewdly suspected , of many other preachersbesides their author . In the latter year he also published a volume of Prayers for Families , which have been frequently reprinted . In this year , also , he removed , as has been
above-stated , to a situation in several respects flattering to a young man fond of literary society , and ambitious of a proper field for the display of his talents . For his qualifications as a lecturer on the Belles Lettres there could be no
question : butof his fitness for the office of Rector Academice , there might be some grounds for doubf . Whatever could be accomplished by amiable dispositions and p leasing manners , might well be expected ; but , in emergencies , where firmness , resolution and dignified
seventy were requisite , there was reason to apprehend a failure . Accordingly , though , amidst the heterogeneous mass of students in this seminary , he generally
engaged the esteem and warm affection of the orderly and sober part , he was not always treated with due respect by those , even among these classes , who had no particular interest in the credit and success of the institution ; while by
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4 ? s ^ ' Historical Account of the XVarrington Aca demy
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/4/
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