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: £ plotter'in Lambeth House , then used as a state jaiJ , where through illusage he fell into a sickness which had nearly proved fatal . " F . 204 «> Soxmatiej ^ the king ^ s return , Mr . Allestree was male Canon of Christ - Church , Oxford t'' and—^' undertook oae
of the lectures in the city designed -o . sirengthoni the . Church of England , as ^ it -had before been -eakened , by * po pular pneasbing ^?* of ihis lecture whi ' h he upheld , for several years he would : » evejr receive the salary , but ordered it to be distributed amongst the poor .
; t "fir the yeat tt ? 6 & , the Provostship . of Eton College was conferred upon hittK " His health , and particularly his eyesight ailiiig , he resigned the divin . ty chair , in he year 16 , 9 , and h ^ d the ' aatisfrction to be succeeded by his friend
Dr . Jane . but nei « her 1 his step , nor the use of mineral waters , nor journeyings to . which he resorted , could restore his " constitution , . broken by hard study . pBts disoid * r growing upon him terminated in a drppsv , under which he cx-¦
-: fi red ' al ' 1 / bn'dbn , whither he had come to be hear his physicians , on the 23 th - % f Jan Vary , i 6 si ; be ** as attended in $ 5 te- sicknet s by several dignitaries of the church and other friends , and bade -adieii to them-and to the world with
* ^ reaf ^ equanimity and constancy of ^ fftihdT ?* Pp . 52 o 5 * 6 . art * •• Thfe ttiost striking peculiarity of - B # i AIte 8 i # ee * s character was indiffer-V'tud ' e , amounting almoHt to contempt , of ; " iicfi « t df when various instances are so dff-WCdrir . ••^ P < & ± & . — " The character
2 W his happy genius is thus summed up iby his biographer jBisttoj * Fell } -. me-H ¦ ' mdfy , farfcy , judgment , elocution ; ] Ite ^ t linodesry > nd no le ^ js assurance ; a Com ^ rehfcusidn of things and fluency of ^^ ards ^; « h aptness for the pleasant and 5 ^ m ^ it ^ i ^ for theliuggt d parts of lenowi & encounter and
^« qjBY * c «^ ib an industry t ^ rnaste r all things '" P . 207 . tfjfh e 3 er onsof Or Allestree , ** says ^ W ^ j prteen ^ fo ^ apher , may be charac---terizfidJCAtJietaa ^ iiot inconsistent with ^ 1 * * 8 repu tation tban aa fully sustaining «; though they are not without some ^ 'Jn fences and , passages of considerable Sfetofe ^^' L ^ i ^ P ^^^^^^^^^ HHHp ^ HHMA ^ Mi ^ AbM ^ iA ^^ l ^ bkA ^ J l ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ A ou _ ^ ^ rBig | rPrcf / " vw ""~"
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strength is , however , too often coarseness , and the public taste must have been much less refined in his day thaji in our ' s , for no p . lishf d or learned audience could no v bear the gross de « senptsons ( in reality , highly coloured pictures ) of vice , which abound in all his discourses He som times intro *
duces tales from historians and tfavelles for tbe sake of illustration f C ^ - Rerally , he may be recommended 4 br sirnplicity of subject and unity of plan ; excellencies of the rirst class in a preacher . " Pp . 207 , 208 . *
The sermon of 0 r . Aljestr ^ , which tbe editor has selegtecl ^ is The Christian ' s Light , from Matt , v . 16 . The following we thirik well worthy of quota ^ on : c ^ ^ " Light was the very first emanation
of God in the creation , he sa . id first ' Let there be light / t And : t f » the most spiritual and pure of ^ ll ^ vis ^ fllc corporeal beings , its motions seem instan ^ ieous , and by a kind of orapipresen' -e it fills the medium , a , nd ap pears entire in every part of it : yea farther , it is not liable to stain or
sulliage , sun shine is as bright -opota a cottage as a palace , a dung hill ai a bed of roses . you may extinguish lifijit but not defile it * No expression comes near the clearness of light , and trlis our holiness is to strive aftei / ' P . 2 i 6 : > t Benjamin CAlAM ^ thepr ^ ther next selected , wasreittarkablfeibr having c * conceived ari earlvlif-. ¦
^^^^ ^^ r ^ V ^ ^ ^^ ^^ H ^ K ^^^ ^ " ^ ^^ ^^^ ^^ ^ ™ ^ - —^ " 1 - ^ " ^^» - ^^^ - ^ m " ™ ^ m ^ mr ^ m - ^ m 0 ^ j ^^ fection for the Church of Ebgia ^ id , anJ continued , fhrbifghbulf "fhe whole of his life , its zealous advocate , although hei was fc&m among the Noncohftii ' mistis , ? Snd his family were distinguished in that class of peopfe . " ' vr
f * A story is told m the S £ v * £ ) thiSermon from the Fb ^ a ^ ^^ iB ^ t ^ ^ f ^ ito ^ the belief of which is thought tpiog . Britann . Kippis ^ I . I 4 g ( ] , fo cSiiwict t ) r . Allestree ^> f ignorance and < rcdtrfity , It is candidly urged by Dr \ Kippis ^ that the error was the fault of the times , and -it-may - also ~ -be- pleaded' that the story h pertiacjiily an 4 rhetpricaiiy
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jRt ^ € ^ .- ^ British - Eidpit Eloquence . 561
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/37/
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