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    Historical Account of the Warrington Academy . ( Continued from p . 433 . ) The erection of the new range

    of lodging rooms had involved the institution in a debt of 17001 , to provide for which , a number of the Trustees , in the year 1770 , engaged to furnish 1001 . each ,

    and to take the premises in mortgage for their security . Of course , instead of being , in a pecuniary view an advantage , they were an additional burden upon the funds of the institution *—In other

    respects the affairs of the academy went on without much interruption , with the three tutors , Messrs . Aikin , Holt and Enfield , and Mr Rigby , the provider of the commons , till the death of Mr . Holt ,

    in the beginning of 1772 . Of this gentleman very little information has been obtained , in addition to what is given in p . 4 . He is said to have been a man of remarkably mild and gentle manners , and of

    ail equanimity almost unparallel , ed ; insomuch that he appears to have been scarcely capable of emotions , at least of any violent kind ; to have teen , in short , a sort of reasoning automaton . By what process of education he was formed

    to this , we have no account of his farly youth to enable us to judge . When he was at Glasgow , it is reported of him that he took a walk , during one of the vacations , along the ridge called the English Ape * nines , till , passing along that branth of it which terminates in

    Rivington Pike , he came to the keight which looks down upon the vale of Bolton . From hence he sent a boy to summon bis brother , with whom he held a conference , and then * without descending , turned about * and marched back

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    to Scotland . His equanimity ef mfnd , joined to his exact mathematical precision , gave him a great advantage in argument on metaphysical subjects , his

    acquaintance with which was very ex tensive , and of his judgment , con » cerning which hia colleague , Dr . Aikin had a very high opinion . He was particularly exact in

    requiring a precise previous definition of terms made use of by his adversary ; which frequently put an immediate end to the dispute It is said to have been a sentiment

    of bis , that he could live happy in perfect solitude , to . all eternity , meditating on the perfections of the Deity . A correspondent , to whom the writer is under great obligations ^

    and who was one of his early pupils , does not recollect his ever being under any difficulty for illustrations in his class . Probably 9 like many eminent mathematicians , he might not always make suffici *

    ent allowance for the slow appTe ~ hensions of beginner ^ , and without regarding the difficulties which he might not himself perceive , might be too apt to introduce

    them , prematurely 9 t ° the most abstruse parts o £ a science , of which it requires considerable comprehension of mind to relist even the elements . However thi «

    may be , his class was certainly not a popular one ; perhaps no naarfiematical tutor , who is wise , will expect to make tbe subjects of bis course as generally interesting as thoset of his colleagues in the business of

    education : in the present instance , as has been already observed , some rather impertinent hints and suggestions on tbe coftdwet of Jti » class * appear i » the Mintt * es ^< rf the Truitees : which it must taw

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    * £ « Historical Account of the WarringUn Academy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/16/