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Elizabeth Simpson ^ respectable iffhat ^ aWts ^ of fhe town of Leie ^ k . # ^ i # ! fi > ref Ite v wai ? bbfil , 'M&rfch , jy 45 ^ 6-f He was descended ff 6 frT ancestors distinguished by their ldve of civil and religibus
liberty , bne of whom , the Rev . 5 <> hn Wobdhouse [ Noncon . Memor . 8 voi 2 nd . ed . iii . 107 ? &c ] surrendered ' his prospects in the religious establishment of his country , at the call < f conscience , being one of the memorable band of confessors who were ejected from the Church of England ( t € 6 % ) by the Bartholomew Act . Hte parents devoting him early to the'Work bfthe ministry , young Sfrnjfeort was placed , 1754 > under the cife of Mr . John Aikin , [ aftfer # irds t ) v l !> . } who kept a flourishing scfcobl * at Kibworth , in libice ^ t ^ rs h ire ;^ and on his removal to ; tafcfe charge of the Academy iirWarflrtgtoh , 1768 , was sent to Market Harborough . In 1760 ,
tne pupil followed his tutor , to Wkrrrfigtoiij and there entered Upon lac 6 ut ^ 6 of education fo r the ih'fhfstry attlotigst the Protestant tMssetatersi * under this most reirj ^ fettable divine , aided by Dr . j ? riestley , Mr . Seddon , and Mr . Hfrit . Of the great advantages <* f this academical institution , the
m Bath , on Sunday , August 29 , 1 S 13 , Bjr" Josepli Hratcr . Crutwell » Bath - , Johnson , London * is , 6 d . 8 vo 2 . u The Instructive Remembrance of Depart ^ iV&ri % : A , Sermon preached at Mill-HMl Chapel , in Leeds , on Sund ay , Sept . 5 , ^ Bt 3 j on occasion of the < 8 c * t # ofMie' Htv : John Sfnipson / Also , an Addrtse , delivered at the end of the Fiincral Service ^ on Tuesday , Aug 31 - aiwl a Memoir of his ^ Life , &c . &c . By tfitf ^ ife ^ v . Tliotna ^ J ervii . Johnson . ' tfvo . sg s . . ' f . , Mr . Huhtcr say » , •* on the 19 th of Mirch ^ Mr . J « rvk « o * the 3 otb . "
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reader may form an accurate juctgniBfil by consulting tire Historical AccOuM of \ t by an able , discriminating pen , in our last Volume *! £ No one knew better how to avail himseff of these advantages than our student t and bis attachment
to his tutors was in propoFti ^ n to the benefits he received from them ; of Dr . Arkin he always spoke in the warmest terms of admiration , !! and his regard for Dr . Priestley
continued to the last . ^ From Warriivgton , Mr . Simpson went in 1765 , tcr the University of Glasgow , where he spent two years : in this ancient seat ^ o £ learning he attended the lectures
of the able , pious r and candid Dr . Leechmaa , § principal of the
J May we presume to remind our valuable correspondent V . F . that his promised continuation of this subject is anxiously looked for by many of our readers , | j The J plan of Dr . Aikin ' s tuition , &b "described by Mr . Simpson , is given by V . F . Vol . VIILp .. 166 , 7 . ^ § The following character of Df . Leech man , by Dr Wo'drow , " in ' ille Life of him prefixed to his posthumous Sermons , in two Vofo . 8 vov 17 ^ 9 ,, v ^ ill gratify such as take an interest in theological history : —
" Dr . Leechnoan was qualified ^ beyond most men , to be a silccesstul teacher and defender of truth . ; Hit lave of it was pure and warm ^ ye | ^ jhi « generous warmth was strictly guarded by the modesty of his ownjonrnd , slhd never betrayed hirri into ^ ariy v harsh- ^ r indecent language towards those whose opinions he could not but consider , as
hostile lo truth and to the best interests of mankind . He was" as free aa aniPinpian I ever knew , from bigotry , 6 r / att Inn- * proper attachment to any sysjtierftir of Theology or Philosophy , that of Hutisheson his beloved friend not exempted . He israsi to att appearance / eqijally candid with the justly adhVlirdd LaraScr :
and though his reading or learning . was considerably inferior to that prod ^ a ^ of knowledge , yet It was « till very < xt < m-
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Brief Memoir of the late Rev . John Simpson * 9 f
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/9/
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