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    t'o .. Add as _ many quarters of an hotii * as tliere are individuals pte * sent , and you will find that many hours are to be redeemed . " Often

    when protracted repose was demanded by the debilitating and exhausting exertions of the preceding day , he would not admit of the gratification . Gratification at the expense of time he banished { torn the circle of his pleasures . The entertainment of the tabJp durirg the dinner hour he enjoyed ,

    but avoided farther interruption . To the love of order he was a sla ? ve , if there can be excess in that Hftbit . His hours , his moments were regularly appropriated . A train was laid in the morning * and ( here was no deviation in the course of the daj 7 , if unforeseen avocations did not occur . The

    arrangements of the fan&ily were so clear and intelligible , that every ohe could easily pronounce how the rest were employed ; the subject which they were studying , Qitid almost the degree of attention they severally bestowed . All were mutually known ; who excelled anil who were defective , and whether the distinction arose from taletat or from application . Books were recommended , separately

    from the instituted lectures , for each succeeding year , as best adapted to the degree of religious kaowledge and experience * which inight in general be supposed to have been attained at that period . flvery thing had its own place . He would rattier erase than retain a just idea , if it cftd not belong to

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    12 Additions to the Mtrrioir pf Dr . Ashworth .

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    the series which he was pursui ng * Entering upon a journey M Safcy weeks , he fi ^ ed not only the hours of its commencement and

    termination , but the hours to be allotted tq the road , the hours to ? he allotted ; to each town , ^ nd the , specific time which could be spared for his respective acquaintance in that tqwn . With him -every . thiug was reduced to systeip « Hi £ prayers as well as his sermons Jayi

    in a scheme ^ Hence his * devotions were copious and comprehensive , in a degree almost unexampled . His prayers on same interesting Occasions have been remembered and spokeh qf with pleasure for years , by young and old . A sentiment or eXpre ^ sioti , in his addresses to the Almighty " could seldom be anticipated * . ' u They were almost hew every morning . " That stucly was neygr to be discovered , cannot be ^ rnai u *

    tained . But why should the ifi ^ doleht say , that prayer shotil f i be only the spontaneous and i flRrt mediate feeling of the soul ! Are not externporary pvayer $ | ^ o use a common term , degraded bjf ^ neglecting previous preparation \ Should absorption of sOUl elevation of thought , and intfensene ^ s of feeling , be confidenlfy relied

    on , when there is so much in man to distract ! Particularly m social exercises , ought not the general improvement to be consulted in our addresses to Gqcl as well , as to man ! 6 C But wisdom is pro ( liable to direct /' ( Ifo be cb&ludied in our next ) I

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1814, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2436/page/12/