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In the language of Bishop Burnet , a pleasure in doing what Pro ~ te&tants cannot hear to / tear . " He would probably look back upon this discourse with emotions of concern and regret : it should , however , be observed that the zeal manifested by Mr . Worthington , on this occnsion , was not at all peculiar to him , it was almost the
general characteristic of the age . In the year 1780 , Mr . Wor . thington published " An Essay on the Resolution of Plane Triangles , by common Arithmetic ; with a iiew and concise Table adapted to the Purpose ; " which as it must
necessarily be of very limited application in mathematical pursuits , was not , it is presumed , much inquired after . As , however , this little tract is not generally known , it may be right to mention , that it is divided into three sections : the
first contains an enumeration of the principal rules for the resolution of plane triangles , without recurring to tables of sines , tangents or secants : in the second ,
the author shews the grounds on which these rules are built ; and the third is principally devoted to the explanation of the nature of the table mentioned in the
titlepage . An appendix contains some equations intended as / ormw / cc for the solution of triangles . About this time , or , perhaps , a year or two before , he
announced , as preparing for publication , * A # plain Account of Fluxions , in which the Doctrine of Conic Sections , and the Problems of Natural Philosophy are omitted ; for the Use of
Learn-€ r » - This work , which was afterwards mentioned .- , by the au . thor among jhis actually exist *
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ing publications , * was never given to the world , and probably never printed . The Rev * Francis Spilsbury , whom Mr . W . denominates his * ' father in the gospel , " died , after a short illness , on the third of March , 1782 . On this occasion Mr . Worthington delivered an
Oration at his interment , in Bunhill Fields , and he likewise preached a Sermon , on the following Sunday , both of which were published . Of these the former is the most striking , pathetic and impressive . In both he speaks with the utmost respect and affection of his deceased frit nd ; but it ought
not to be passed over without notice , that though he had been an assistant preacher with him more than eight years , and on terms of such intimate friendship , that h « exclaims , in the discourse just
mentioned , — "I have lost the guide of my youth , to whose counsel I had always access , and beneath whose fostering wing I have reposed for years ; " } et he could not tell the congregation what
were his sentiments on disputed and important doctrinal points . Notwithstanding the respect duo to the character of Mr , SpiUbury , as * a practical preacher , and a pious and exemplary character , still it cannot redound to his . praise , that he preached to , and
lived among a people forty years , as this divine did , and yet leave his hearers , and most intimate
friends , ignorant « f opinions on interesting theological topics . At the age of seventy . six , it should seem , according to Mr ,
* See the last leaf of the Oxdittatiox Services , printed m 17 * 9 *
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Metnair to / the late Rev . HughWorthington . 56 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 565, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/5/
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