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|> ant declamatory pleading in favour of the rigjhts of auth o rs . His Speaker , ( 1774 »\ compiled for the immediate use of his pupijs , has proved one of the most popular and profitable books in the
language : its sequel , the Exercises in Elocution , is an equally elegant apd pleasing , but not so successful , compilation . To the first was prefived an Essay on Elocutiop , and in subsequent edkions an Essay on reading Works of Taste ; and to the later editions of the
secon . 4 were added , Counsels for Young Men . His Biographical Sermons , ( 1777 ) , are pleasing sketches of the most eminent sjcripture-characters , but have noj ; been thought in general to display the talent which might have been expected from their author . His
Funeral Sermon for Mr , Gal way , a student of great promise , who died the same year in the academy , is a powerful and impressive address to his fellow . students , under the immediate impression of so g , wful an event , which could hardly fail of being attended with a beneficial effect . His Sermon at the
Ordination of Mr . Estlin , of Bristol , ( 1778 ) is an able appeal to Protestant Dissenters , on the necessity of a manly and spirited attention to their common interests * There are some circumstances connected with this discourse , which , if the
writer were at Jjberty to mention them , would shew its author ' s spint and temper in a particularly amiable point of view . The first -pf Three Discourses , by Enfield , Godwin and Holland , ( 1780 ) ,
fi&a furnished your last volume ( p . 293 - —226 ) with a very interesting article . AH the three , indeed , are very interesting discourses , ^ nd deserved much raore atteaUpnfrom
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the public than they met with . * His Sermon on tfie Death of Pr . Aikin has already been mentioned , p . 170 . For his mathematical class , besides his Institutes , he translated Rossignol ' s Elements of Geometry .
After the dissolution of the academy , he continued at Warrington two years , taking the
charge of p . few pupils , and devoting his attention more closely than he h ^ d before done , to the service of his congregation : for whose use he novy drew up a series of dis- *
courses , on the principal incidents and moral precepts of the gospel , in which he shewed considerable
talent as a commentator , as well as skill in expanding into general lessons of cpnduct , those incidental hints and observations which occur in the sacred narrative . As a preacher his delivery was grave and iinpressive , affecting rather a tenor of uniform dignity , than anygreat variety of expression ; though
not highly animated , it was by no means dull , and never careless or indifferent . Of the usual tenor
of his discourses , we have a good opportunity of judging , in his three volumes of Posjthumous Sermons ; though his general character is that of a moral preacher , it is that of a Christian moralist ; and though his religion was rather that of principle than of sentiment , and he was more solicitous to deduce from
it a rule of life , tb&n to elevate it into a source of sublime and
rap-* The second , indeed , by Mr . Godwin , containing a comparative view pi the Dissenters of the last and present age , has been noticed by Wendeborn , in his ** View of England , " vol . ii . p . 359 . Mr , Holland ' s is reprinted in his
Fo 9 thumpu » Sermons ; find can scarcely be too much commended .
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Hi storical Account qf the Warrington Academy * 4 $ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 431, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/7/
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