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    the dissipated and inflamed West Indian , whose pastime it had been from his youth to sport with human sufierings , *— by the profligate outcast of our great public schools ,

    who had learned all the evil , without any of the good , of those establishments , and was sent hither as a sort of dernier resort , —and by the pampered petling of large fortune , who , from the treatment he had seen given , and been allowed

    himself to give , to his private tutor afehome , had learned to conside / every tutor as a sort of upper servant , —he was sometimes treated with a degree of scornful insolence , which nothing but a forbearance like his- could tolerate .

    and which it required the occasional co-operation of the other tutors effectually to check . So much , however , did Ire feel his tranquillity hprt , by the scenes of this kind to which he was exposed that this was probably a principal cause of the violent dyspeptic

    complaints , under which he frequently laboured . He made several attempts to deliver him from this burden , and , alter the failure of repeated attempts , to obtain a successor in this department , he addressed a strong remonstrance to the Trustees , which put an end to the institution .

    Though the , life of Dr . Enfield was tojlsume and anxious through the whole period . of his residence at Warrington , it was one of rapid menial improvement ; for it was one of constant and vinremitted mental exertion .

    * < Jne of this class who was at Warrifigton with the present writer used to vayjthat the first request of the children of planters to t ^ eir parents was for * a young negtr , o kick /' Young negroes , il is hoped , are , since the abolition , grown too valuable to be thus sported with .

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    As a Lecturer on the subjects connected with his proper department , * Dr . E . had great merit . The subjects which composed his several courses , were arranged

    with great judgment , and each subject was treated with accuracy and distinctness . Though perhaps there might not be much original , yet whatever had been advanced of importance by others , was

    diligently collected , and luminousl y displayed , and expressed of course in elegant language . In one respect he was deficient ; he was a mere lecturer : no examination on

    the subject of the former lecture preceded the delivery of the next * nor were any sufficient pains taken to ascertain whether the studenthaxi attended to or understood the sub .

    ject . — On Saturdays , indeed , he had a regular practical exercise , to improve the students under his care in reading , speaking and composition ; the exercises for which latter purpose were often directed

    to be on subjects connected with their studies . —And , in order to encourage among the students at large , an alacrity to engage in voluntary exercises , he , m conjunction with his friend , Mr . ( now Dr . ) Aikin , who settled at

    Warrington as a surgeon , shortly after Dr . Knfield , promoted the formation of societies or clubs for improvement in elocution and composition : they both became themselves members of these clubs , and took their turns in submitting to

    * His course continued during three years , and consisted of Lectures on the Theoiy of Language , particularly the English ; on Composition , comprising the various subjects usually included under the term Belles Lett res ; on Elocuti on ; on History , including Geography and Chronology , and on Conomercc

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    Historical Acccount of the Warrington Academy . 429

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/5/