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coApletioe of a course of liberar Education - >* ¦¦ _ . _ . . ' ..- Between the ordinary close of a seheol education , and the commencement of studies strictly professional , or of the occupation * of civil and active life , an interval
occurs daring which it is of the utmost importance to the future character that the mind be cultivated with more enlarged and varied knowledge than is attainable at school , and be guarded by a superintending discipline , from the danger of having its moral principles corrupted . -
With this view the Trustees , in pursuing their primary object , the education of Dissenting Ministers , have eikdeavoured to fender their Institution at the same time subset vientto the liberal education of youth in general ^ without distinction ^ f partyor religious denomination , and exempt from every political test , and doctrinal subscription . The course of instruction for the Christian
Ministry comprehends Five Years ; but it is so arranged , that , with the single exception of the study of Hebrew , the whoi $ r course during the first Three Years is equally ap * plicable to Lay-Studeuts . - ' In the first year the Students are instructed in the Greek and Latiu Classics , in Ancient History , and" in Latin and English
Composition ; in the Clements of Plane Geometry , Algebra alid Trigonometry . In 4 : he second year thejpproceed in the Greek and Latin Classics , a « d . ia the practice of Composition , and read a course of Modern History , in pursuing which their attention is particularly directed to the
History and Principles of the' English Constitution . They are instructed in tjie Geometry of Solids ; in the Conic Sections ; the Doctrine of the Sphere , an 4 the higher parts of Algebra . Lecture ? are also given on the Philosophy of the Mind , and on Logic-. In the third year they are further instructed in the Greek and Latin Classics , and in the Belles Lettres ; in some of the higher departments of Mathematical ScU ence ^ particularly the method of Fluxions , and the Newtonian System of Physical As * troriomy . They are also introduced to an extensive course nof reading in Ethics , Jurisprudence , and Political Economy ; and Lectures are delivered on the Evidences of
Natural and Revealed Religion . An extensive course of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Chemistry forms a part of the . business both of the second and third Sessions : The Students are lodged and boarded in a set of buildings near the dwelling-house of Hie Rev . Charles Wellbeloved , the
Theological Tutor , arid Director of the Institution . The other two Tutors , the Rev . W . Turner , jun . M . A ., and the Rev . John Kttfriok , M * A ., reside in the buildings # 9 Mhe Students Il * 1 * m » f ^ l « te *« ttl < UtU * i * 140 Gui-
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neas per annum , which sum defrays ftfe board &n # lodging " , attd everj ^ other ex * pense connected with a residence in tifc College . ¦¦¦ ... '¦ ¦ Divinity-Students on the foundation havt every expense of board atid edne&tion defrayed .
In order to secure , as far as is possible , the respectability of the Students-who shall be educated for the Ministry fn this Seminary , with regard both to character and literary attainments , the Trustees have resolved , That , in future , no Candidate shall be admitted on its Foundation , but on the recommendation of three Protestant'
Dissenting Ministers , residing in the neighbourhood where he lives , who sharf certify , that at the commencement of his Cowrse , he will have attained the full age of sixteen ; that on their personal examination , his moral character , - natural endowments *
and classical proficiency , are such as to qualify him for becoming-a Student for the Ministry ; and that the profession is the object of his own voluntary choice . Hii ability to read Homer and Horace , will be considered as essential to his admission . "—
Ail applications must be addressed to The Rev . Charles ? Wellbeloved , York , " who wiliiay them before the Annual Meeting of Trustees , at York , oh the last : Wednesday in June ; at which Meeting they will he taken into consideration , and those Candidates preferred , who appear , froimvttie testimonials produced , to he most eligible .
Letters on the subject of this Institution , may also be addressed to George William Wood , Esq * Treasurer ^ Manchester , or the Rev . William Turner ^ Visitor , Newcastleupon-Tyne , by whom , or by any of the Deputy-Treasurers , Subscriptions and' Donations are received . SAMUEL SHORE , President . Manchester , August 2 , 1815 ' . ,
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Case of the Unitarian Society at Thome , Yorkshire . : Among" other circumstances which serve to shew the rapid progress of Uriharianism , may be reckoned the formation' of many new societies and the increased demand for
places adapted to the purposes of public worshipr ' To the cases of this khid which have of late occupied the public attention , that of an Unitarian coifgfregratton » t * Thorne , in Vorkshi re , may be considered as an in * teresting * addition . There have been several Unitarian Christians in this neighbourhood for about ten years . Thejx practice from th ** t » tt [ Hnningf has been to
assemble tog-etheV at ifie ^ house ofmw of their friends on the Lord ^ s day and other convenient opportunities ^ to perform reiig i ^ worship , as well as mfore futl y to investig-ate the truth and importance of their reVi g-ious sentiments ' . B ^ thesel irte ^ tfngr » , T the occasional services of Mr . Wright os his Missionary jonrneyay aud tbeiittsUta" ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1816, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2449/page/56/
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