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( kirti History , Ethics , the higher Latin and Greek Classic * , the Evidences of Natural and Revealed fteliglon , in Algebra , Geometry > and Plane Trigonometry ; and Orations were read , in Latin by Mr . Payne , de Tiberii Ingenio et Moribus , and
by Mr . Richard Martineau , on the question Juventutis an Senectutis Voluptates pot fares habendcs sunt ? In English , by Mr * Cheethani , on the Sacrifice of Isaac ; by Mr . Wilson , on the question whether Mental Sensibility be consistent with Happiness , and by Mr . Wawne , on the Origin , Nature and Effects of the Institution of
Prophets among the Hebrews . The examination was closed with the following short address from the Visitor : " Gentlemen , * I cannot close this highly satisfactory examination without congratulating you and the company present on the very
superior accommodations , ( so creditable to the taste of those who nave planned them , ) which the Committee have this year provided for our reception ; and for your future use as a Common Hall and Lecture Room . I hope that you and all future Students will consider this place as in some sort consecrated to religion ,
virtue , and sound learning , and that many succeeding classes may be carried in it through their course of academical studies with such success as that they may afterWards prove themselves well qualified for usefulness in the world as able and faithful ministers of the Gospel , or as virtuous and honourable members
of society in whatever other stations it may please Divine Providence to place them . In cherishing this hope for you , my young friends , and your successors , we , indeed , are awfully reminded b y the events of the past year , that we ought to indulge a humble , nay , a trembling hope ; that the most excellent natural talents ,
however highly cultivated by learning and adorned with elegance of taste , and how * ever excellence of conduct and amiableness of manners may have excited expectations of eminent usefulness , are no security against severe disappointment . But it becomes us not to tear open afresh thdse wounds which have scarcely ceased to bleed . The heart knoweth its own
bitterness , and heedeth not the inter * meddling of the stranger to improve it Into ultimate ; joy * Such events are indeed amdng the most mysterious dispensations of Providence ; but Mnce ftiey are providential , they must bjeiirise ahd benevolent upon the whole , although f 6 r the ? present tney * ate ^ ildt joyous but ^ ievous . > tiet us hope that a time will come when we shall be permitted to see more SJeatJy their connexion with the general course and dife ^ of evejftt sl -anl Be sawffwf Iftflf /^ wU ^ weHw ^ * : *• - ' - " * ' * * '' " iiKt ' x - ' ^• -
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** To returns I hope that you , gentlemen , and your successors , will be stimu lated , by this more spacious apartment in which your public meetings are , in future to be held , and your public exercises to be delivered , as well as your more
private and familiar discussions are , probably , to be carried on , to improve in the distinctness and propriety of your enunciation , and in general to throw more force and energy into your manner of expressing yourselves . Indeed , I think I can observe a
considerable improvement in these respects during the late examination , which can only have arisen from the mechanical necessity of accommodating the voice to the dimensions of the place we speak in , and the distance of . our audience . The
distinctness and propriety of your answers to the questions proposed , and the freedom from embarrassment with which they have been delivered , afford us a good presage of the advantage in this respect to be hoped for from the constant use of this room . —No doubt these
circumstances are also a proof of your general diligence and attention ; and we are happy to have received in this respect a favourable report of you . For your further assistance in the pursuit of your studies you have this year enjoyed the advantage of a considerable addition of valuable books . ¦ k % ii
w ^^^ . y — ^ p ^^^ h ^^ m *^ wwiy ^ i ^^^ «< v ^« . ^^ A w * -v ^ * ^¦ F * *^* ^>^^»^ wl ^^^^^ M . m K . m the bequest to the Library of the late learned Mr . Bretland , of Exeter , an advantage which I hope you will improve in future sessions by a more steady and regular pursuit of a course of private reading , connected with the method of study
which is here pointed out to you ; allowing of course , in a certain proportion , preference to such studies as may happen to be most agreeable to your respective tastes , and to the pla # of life to which you may have devoted yonr » eMe % J But
with this allowance , it is of great importance that you should accustom yourselves as early as possible to some methodical distribution of your leisure time . It is highly desirable that you should not now continue , like children at school , to waste the whole of that time in mere
amusement . Bodily recreation , indeed , is necessary , and will , no doubt , continue to be necessary as long us you live . And I am sure that those of you who recollect the general strain of my addresses to you on former occasions , will not charge me totyli wishing to tie you down to ' uninterrupted severe study £ Only * le $ youSr ^ distribution of time be regular ; and let the time devoted to private " study be steadily devoted to that objecd l ^ ^ " Wire is 4 fttfw $ » distinction betiyeen thtt jbtoce' aria- a school , concerning # hWlH ^ irly < &&tfam ' ? Voti Xt ; piil ^ ™ * . ¦ <> & ¦ - *
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r 432 fntelVtgence . --Afanche 8 tef College , York .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 432, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/52/
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