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general discussion essays of their own . These clubs , which continued for many years , were eminently useful , both in forming the young men to a just and natural elocution , and in training them to a habit of spontaneously expressing
their sentiments on any subject with ease and propriety . While their presence secured a due decorum among the younger members in the management of their debates , ii their easy manners checked no sober freedoms / ' but
allowed to every one the full exercise of that liberty of declaring his own sentiments on any side of a question , which is necessary to its fair investigation and decision . Dr . Enfield ' s power of turning his mind to any subject , and by dint of hard labour making
himself master of it , together with his earnest good-will to the prosperity of the academy , often without being much thanked for it , and always without being rewarded as he deserved , will appear from the following circumstance . On Mr . Walker ' s resignation of the mathe .
matical chair , it was found impracticable to give adequate encouragement to a separate tutor in that department ; Dr . Enfield had paid little attention to it , and it was by no means a favourite branch of science ; but by the hard study of one vacation , under the
direction oi his friend , Mr . ( afterwards Dr . ) Clayton , of Liverpool , he ¦ qualified himself to set out with one class , and advancing in the science in proportion to the
demand , he became a very respecr table te&cber in all the pans which trstially cofrte ? into rin academical boiivte . Hi 4 Institutes of Natural i ^ tiilosophy is a work o ( very ocnru kiderable reputation .
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But it was hot only as a tuWt that Dr . Enfield employed his talents during his residence at War * rington , he greatly extended his reputation as a writer . His ser- * rnon at the ordinationof Mr , Philip Taylor , of Liverpool , and of Mr . Robert Gore , of Manchester , 1 770 , gives a pleasing view of tne duties of Christian societies . His
Preachers Directory , ( 1771 ) is an elaborate and useful work , which must have been long in preparation , though published after-fcje hecame a tutor ; it contains a series
of subjects for public addresses from the pulpit , arranged under proper heads , —the Existence and Attributes of God— -Virtue and Vice in general ; the particular
Duties of Piety ; the Social and the Personal duties ;—Christianity ; its evidences ^ excellence , advantages , prospects , peculiar institutions , &c . Historical
subjects ; - — Particular Occasions . These general heads are branched out into almost every possible variety of particulars , each illustrated by a collection of texts from the Old and New Testaments ,
and from the Apocrypha . To the whole is prefixed a judicious Essay on Preaching , which has been much and deservedly commended . * It will be found , indeed , to be a very useful companion to every young preacher . His English Preacher . ( J 773 ) in 9 vols . is a
valuable selection of sermons , from various authors . His History ot Liverpool , ( 1774 ) , is a neat topographical sketch , compiled from papers collected by a deceased friehcL fifis Observations on Literary Property , ( 1 ? 74 >* is an ele-¦ \ " 2 . : " " « ¦ -r
* Robinson ' s Claude , vol . i . p . £ O 9 »
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430 Historical Account of the Warrzngtoil Academp *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 430, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/6/
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