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Portsmouth , Sir , September 2 f 1818 . HAVE great satisfaction in as-I suring your Correspondent Mr . Lamb , [ p . 48 $ , ] that the Rev . Charles Toogood is still living , an ornament td his profession , a zealous friend to your valuable Repository , and an admirer and encourager of your excellent Miscellany , " The Christian Reformer . " Not having it in his power to extend the circulation and sale of
tile Repository , agreeably to the wish expressed by you at the close of the last Volume , and being very desirous of encouraging and supporting itf he gave me , when I left him about a fortnight since , ten pounds to send to you , to be applied to this purpose . I remit them to you by a friend . *
Mr . Lamb speaks of Mr- Toogood as Rector of Ashill : he was only Curate . He friever has been a beneficed clergyttiati , because he never could subscribe . RUSSELL SCOTT .
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sequence of his actual attainments ; and I can only say * that many of the statements in the Life of Porson are not founded in truth . With respect to Prosody , he knew but little ; and as to Greek , he had made but
comparatively little progress when he came to our school . The very ingenious and learned Editor of one account of him , has been misinformed in most particulars , and many of the incidents which he relates , I can venture , from
my own knowledge , to assert , are distorted or exaggerated . Even Porson ' s compositions , at an early period , though eminently correct , fell far short of excellence ; still we all looked up
to him , in consequence of his great abilities and variety of information , though much , of that information was cohfined to the knowledge of his school-fellows , and could not easily fall under the notice of his instructors .
He always undervalued school exer * cises , and generally wrote his exercises fair at once * without study . I should be sorry to detract from the merit of an individual whom I loved * esteemed and adriiired ; but I speak of him when he had only given the
promise of his future excellence ; and in point of school exercises , think that he was very inferior to more than one of his contemporaries ; I would name the present Marquis of Wellesley , as infinitely superior to him in composition .
Did he write the same beautiful hand as he did afterwards ?—He did ; nor was there any doubt of his general scholarship . Then did he make great progress during the time he was at Eton or after
he left ?—He was advanced as far as he could be with propriety , but there were certainly some there who would not have been afraid to challenge Porson as a schoolboy , though they would have shunned all idea of
competition with him at Cambridge . The first book that Porson ever studied , as he often told me , was Chambers ^ Encyclopedia ; he read the whole of that dictionary through , and in a great degree made himself master of the algebraic part of that work * entirely by the force of his understanding .
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513 The Rev . C , Toogood *— Professor Porsbtfs e&tfly Studies .
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The late Professor Porson . [ In the Minutes of Evidence of the Third Report of the Committee of the Hobse of Commons , on Education of the Lower Orders , is the following & £ cdunt of the early studies of the late Professor Porson , in the examination of the Rev . Joseph Goodall , D . D . ProVost of Eton College , p . 77- The outlines of the life of this celebrated
scholar are given in our Hlrd . Volume , pp . 573 , 574 , and in the same Volume , pp . 533—539 , is a Literary Memoir of him , drawn up by our lamented friend , Mr . Dew hurst . Ed . ] ARE you acquainted with what happened to the late Professor Porson , to prevent his election to
King ' s ?—I beg leave to say , that every account that I have read about him , in relation to this circumstance , is incorrect . When he came to the school , he was placed rather higher , by the reputation of his abilities , than , perliaps , he ought to have been , m
con-* We think it right to acknowledge the receipt of this contribution , and to present our thanks to Mr . Toogood , and also to Mr . Scott . Ed .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1818, page 572, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2480/page/36/
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