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Jknx . J « - *~ Ajiec . < i < yte& of the- Life of Micimrd Watson * Mishop of Landaff ; written hy , himself at different intervals * mid revised in 1814 . Pubr lishedlby hi § Son , Richard Watson , lii ^ B , PriebQudary of JLandaff ; and W ? ell * , 4 tQo p . p . 35 J . Caddl and Djay . ie s * ( portrait *) 181 . 7 « of
FTHHE lat ^ Bislipp Landaff * was ,, Jjt op . many accounts ^ an eminent m » il » , wd ' pLubli ? . attention has been , for some time , attracted to this pubr lieation * which was known to be prepared for the press before his decease . The interest which it has excited , and
the controversy which is . now carrying on witlr regard tcr it in the newspapers , are a tacit homage to the author ' s importance in society * In our last volume ( XII . 3 % \— $ 87 )
we inserted a memoir of the Bisjiop , which the preseat , vi&rk prpyes , to have been generally , correct ,, Weshaii refer to that article in the present review * as also to the other notices of him which are scattered
through the -Monthly Repository * Richaro W-A 4 TS 0 N was boria in August * 17 S ? , at Heversham ^ f in "VK&sttnoreland * in the neighbourhood ® £ t whiclt his ancestors had been for centuries tillers of their oww ground j in tft& idiom of fee country , states-&c
9 fteto % In l 6980 liis father * was appointed head-master ¦ of Heversbam School , wbich he-taught * with-great reputation for nearly forty . years ;'' his greatest honour'iS'proaQunced by the i > i « beop- ' - to have- been bis educating Mphrain&Chambers , author of the Dieof
tio ^ aFy Arts and ' Sciences , out of Twhicb has grown Dn Rees ' s-Gyclopsedifsi « < il $ Ttiere are two exhibitions ( now of ^ 5 Oa ^ year each ) belon ging to thfe school ^ on © to TVi nrity College , in C ' vainbridg , and the other to Queen ' s Goliege * Oxford / Richard Wat son succeeded biS'SchiooI-MIow ^ Mr& Pres *
ton , in the enjoyment-oftbat to Trinity Goltege ^ and wkn they were both of tlkmi bi « hop ^ iu > 17 ^ - ( Watson s of-liandaff ; : Pr © st ^> i % of ^ Ferns ^ ia Ife-# The Bishop uniformly spells the word && ab'bvej" with only one XI . + In ona * Memoir-written I $ ver $ ham * '
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Iandg ) th ^ y repaired tbe . school - ^ us ^ which was swweb dilapidated ^ at . their joint expense . A . Latin inscription by the former * r £ eord& thia instance of their , pious ., regard for the place of their educationo
After the senior Watsqn ' s . resignation of the school * which took place before Richard , Watson was horo ? its reputation declined Yet here the Bishop i ^ as educated ,, and he says * that he had cause through life to regret his not having had a better classical foundation .
66 ' It has fallen to my let * not only to be obliged to write , but to speak Latin , and having * never been taug-ht to make Latin os-Greek verses , it cost me more pains to remember whethev a . syllable was long Qt short , than , i t wouJd harve done to compre » head a . wholesectioaof Newtozi ' isi&rincipia *
My mind , indeed , recoiled from sucJb inquiries 5 what itnportsjt , I used to say to mystify wliethfir Cicero , tvould have said fprtmto or fbrtuito—Areoptikgus or Areopagus ? And yet I was forced- to attend to such . tilings : for a Westminster or Eton
schoolmaster would properly bave thion ^ fet meanly of a man wboc dwk n&t know them . Bfy hands have ; shaken : with impatience and iadjg-nation , when I ha ^ e been consiiUiog * A bus worth or Labbe ^ about a pointy which I was certain of forgetting in a , mouthV time . But as I never cftVuld remember the
lace or name of a man or woman whose character did not strike me , so Ifound it dii&U cult to impress on my memory , rnl ^ s of prosody which I had acquired a contempt f ^ a ^; nor did ; tha s contempt arise so mucb from my ig ^ iorancef of the ? subject ( foi ? I
had 9 aftei ^ leaving school ^ taken * great pains not ta be ignorant of it ) , asy from the undue importance which was given to it * I was confirmed ia this scalimejit by observing , that the g ^ reate&t adepts in syllables were not exempt froiu . rnisXafces . 1 jemeiraber two of the-best scholars in the
university , Rutherforth and Stunner , in the course of a few , weeks , pronouncing ju . thef ^ enaje * house , the , penult imam of [ jMtolfaOL gLTyg lon ^ aiid . shortt On . another occa&ian ^ my Friend ^ , Mr . Wilson , of Peterhouse , ( afterwards one of the bestbiaekrletteKJudgje ^ iBdEbgJaBd ^)
having kept under me a very good act in the difvinity sehtmls ^ was c > ce » au i'jedtb 5 r > two greaA clas ^ % Bifibop ? of P © terborow ^ uaii 4 BrA Syniojdds ^ M for h&ving i re&A aholtta m * stead ofy as they thought ^ aMita * ; Event the very learned Mr . Bryant , with ivlmm I was conversing in 1802 ^ on the subject of
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H Still pleased , to p raise , yet not afraid to blajne . "— -Popi ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 50, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/50/
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