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      of the coiwn&e-pf matruction pursued , and oi tec ? p ^ t ia w hic h it is conducted , fe by ffiviag an extract or two from the account which has been drawn up by the pupils themselves . The fir » t extract is taken from a letter , addressed to Dr . Spencer , written by on « of the pupils of the first class , and ia dated Bristol , Nov . 14 , 1816 .

      dear Sir , As you have requested from me some account of what has been done by us in the prosecution of your excellent plan for the diffusion of sacred knowledge , I pre » sent you with the following , which is as complete as my data have enabled me to make it . J

      July , 1814 . Commenced with the English and Hebrew Grammar . Read Exercises in Reading . Soon after began the Hebrew Scriptures , commencing with Genesis . Read Paley ' s Natural Theology and Gibbon's Rhetoric .

      Jan . 1815 . Began the Greek Grammar , and goon after to read the Greek of the New Testament . Read also Watts ' s Logic : after finishing which , read the first volume of Blackstone's Commentaries , for the sake of the style and composition ; and afterwards Harris ' s Hermes , or Philosophical Grammar . In October , began to read Prideaux ' s Connexion of the History of the Old and New Testament . In November , commenced reading

      Abstract of the Business done by the Fourth Class , from 1 st of August to the 23 th of October , 1820 : Of Watts ' s Logic , "A / ^ lhe tJ | 5 r < * Part of fifth Section - Of Murray ' s English Grammar , I 1 Orthog . Etymol . and to Rule 9 f 1 of Syntax . Of English Scriptures , Vhas been read J ^ ° t * twenty-third ch apter of / * - ^ Exodus , Of Hebrew Grammar , I 1 Twice throughout . Of Hebrew Bible , 1 f Eight chapters parsed partially i I and translated entirely .

      It has been stated that there was one of the pupils of the second class who , in the year 1820 , had not taken any pupils . How that happened the writer of this paper does not know : but he has seen a letter from this gentleman , addressed to Dr Spencer , in which he speaks in the highest

      terms of the advantages he has received fram the institution . He states that at the period at which he is ad » dressing his instructor , the close of the six-and-twentfeth yfear cf bis life , he could say , whart he never before eouM B «* y , thiat regular hours of the day hod been spent in reading and cfr *

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      the Septuagint in connexion with the Hebrew * . < t Vp to this time we haw read the Old Testament , partly in English and partly in Hebrew , from the beginning of Genesis to the end of the second book of Samuel . And we have read the four Gospels and a part of the Acts of the Apostles in Greek ; also some of St . Paul's Epistles , Account of the Progress of the Second Class .

      One of Dr . Spencer ' s pupils commenced with four pupils at the beginning of the year 1818 , Up to the date of this paper , viz . October 31 st , 1820 , they have read nearly the whole of the book of Genesis , some of the Psalms of David , and a little in the Prophecies , in the Hebrew . Part of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke in the Greek , Murray ' s English Grammar , Watts ' s Logic , Gibbon ' s Rhetoric , part o € Paley ' s Theology and Kuckford ' s Connexion , with a considerable portion of the English Scriptures .

      On January 1 , 1820 , one of the pupils of the second class began with four pupils . Up to the date of this paper , October 23 rd of the same year , they have read the Hebrew Grammar , the four last chapters of Deuteronomy , and the thirtyfourth chapter of Genesis , Murray's English Grammar , Watts ' s Logic , one quarter of it In Greek to the sixth chapter of Luke , and in the English Scriptures to the tenth chapter of Joshua ,

      gestmg the JSacred Scriptures , and in gaining the knowledge of the language in which they were originally written : that this pursuit has aflfbrded him much profit and great pleasure ; that it has brought him peace and quiet r ness of mind ; that it has produced a thirst for investigation which can be satisfied only by the endeavour to

      acquire accurate knowledge , rind to arrive at a rational conviction of the truth : that , but for this course of relig ious instruction , he thihks it but too probable that he should never again have given himself any concern respecting the Scriptures , or the ^ ub-

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1822, page 423, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2514/page/31/