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Memoirs of Himself> by Mr. John Fow. (Continued from p, 135.)
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npHOUGH I had been in Town JL before , yet it seemed quite strange and disagreeable to me at my first getting up . The way of living and conversing was new and seemingly disagreeable . I had scarce any one to speak to , and I was like one banished , though in . the hurry and noise of the world . What added to this , was my
falling afresh into ray father ' s displeasure about an affair I wrote him of , from Exeter , in my way up . However , in a few weeks that matter fell quite . I was recommended to good lodgings in Austin Friars , where lived four young ministers , who were all men of sense * and very agreeable companions .
We lived and conversed with much innocent freedom . But my favourite was one Mr . Jer . Burroughs , ( now Collector of the Customs in Bristol , ) whose taste and temper pleased me above the rest . He was assistant preacher to Mr ., since Dr ., Wright at Black Friars , who bore the character
of a man of sense and a polite preacher , and one who put a proper value on his abilities . I think Mr . Burroughs was the best preacher among all the Dissenters I heard in London . He
imitated the style and manner of Mr . Addison in all his compositions ; he had a very lively imagination , and a neat , unaffected delivery which pleased every body . He never read his sermons , but preached them , which were generall y on good subjects , aad free from all the grimace and cant of
party . He had a latitude in lus way of thinking far beyond the rest of his corps , and he did not in all points behave as was commonly expected from one of his character , though he never broke out into any indecency . He had a fine ear and taste for music ;
he sung Purcell's songs and played Corelli ' s sonatas very correctly . He loved diversions , and sometimes gained very well b y them ; for he understood chances and played well himself . He had a very great contempt for priests
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of all sorts , and was pretty much of Lord Halifax ' s opinion , that no man had the digestion of an ostrich , and that God did not expect him to digest iron . While I lived with him , he married a niece of Knight , Cashier to the S . Sea Company , by which means he got at last to the collection of Bristol , where he got money , and lives yet in character and content .
He was not the only person I was intimate with . I was brought to the knowledge of one Mr . Seeker , * in whom at first sight I perceived something extraordinary . We became intimately acquainted soon , and , during my stay in Town , I conversed with
him in the full extent of confidence and true friendship- We had a third man with us , Mr . Samuel Chandler , -f who was of a bold , lively temper , and truly generous in his way of thinking ; but he had not the depth and strength of Seeker . I got a great deal from them , and particularly that turn of mind which hath ever since enabled
me to reoeive truth wherever I see it , without any regard to interest or prejudice . And though this is certainly no principle to thrive by , . because it exposes a man to the disregard or sneer , and sometimes resentment , of most men , who all run into one party
or faction or another , yet it is a principle that affords a constant satisfaction , and which will secure the applauses of the virtuous few , and of your own conscience . When Mr . Seeker and I were intimate , he was intended for a
Dissenting Minister , but he did not like their principles and practices in a great many things . And as he was strong in Dr . Clarke ' s scheme about the Trinity , he was under great difficulty about subscribing the Articles .
* Afterwards Archbishop Seeker . Ed . t Afterwards Dr « Samuel Chandler * Ed ,
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No . CLXXXIV . l APRIL , 1821 . [ Vol . XVt-
Memoirs Of Himself≫ By Mr. John Fow. (Continued From P, 135.)
Memoirs of Himself > by Mr . John Fow . ( Continued from p , 135 . )
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1821, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2499/page/1/
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