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nneoioff <* f a " School fiir Al |> " indebied chiefly for its e ; xmeriee to the Quakers , who formed a lar ^ e proportion of the meeting-, re ^ d long- extracts from the letters of a private soldier , setting forth how the said
soldier prayed ana fought by turns at the battle of Waterloo , and how " the Lord Jesus" strengthened his arm against the Frenchmen . The extracts were to shew , according to the worthy chairman , the blessings of universal education , in consequence of which the
Bible mil become a necessary item in a soldier ' s knapsack ; soldiers and sailors will then pray as well as fight ; and when they have done their duty , the art of writing will enable them to report their spiritual experience to
their fellow-christians . ] " Stonekouse , author of Universal Restitution . " P . 102 . We might have referred our correspondent for satisfaction to our XIHth volume , p p . 489 and 564 . He will there see that
" the author of Universal Restitution" was the Rev . ( afterwards Sir ) George Stonehouse . He was vicar of Islington from 1738 to 1741 . From the extracts given by T . C . A . from
his printed sermon , it would appear that in 1738 he believed the popular doetrine of future punishment . His " Universal Restitution' * appeared in 1761 . —The above author is
sometimes confounded with James Stonehouse , who was for twenty years a physician at Coventry and Northampton , but , entering into holy orders , became Lecturer of All Saints , Bristol , and obtained the livings of Great and Mtle Cheverel , in Wiltshire . James
might be the brother of George Stone house * he is said ( see Mon . Repos X 1 IL 666 ) to have inherited the ba ronetcy from him . . " Samuel Parkes % Esq . ' P . 120
Much more might have been said with propriety of the late Mr , Parkes . * he names of few scientific men are known through a larger circle than his . We are not aware that he TDnria «^ ~ v __ . i » ¦ t —^ discoveries in
any great cnemistry , the branch of philosophy to wl » ch he chiefly devoted himself 3 but to had the happy art of making his extensive
knowledge familiar to the Pubhc , and of adorning subjects not 111 themselves attractive by associating JWh them the elegancies of literature . iUai > y a reader has been drawn to the
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stud y of ' stfcQce ' . b y the gteasing ancl useful m ^ cell ^ 6 tr ^ to has incorporated with Iris cheWrical books . Be it observed , particularly , that he never lost an oppbrtunity of leading the student from nature to the Adorable Author of nature . Severe
critics may have blamed him for stepping aside occasionally from the path of philosophy into that of religion ; there are those , however , whom he has carried with him in his pleasing digressions , who look back to him on this account as a moral instructor and benefactor .
Mr . Parkes ' s mind was naturally acute , and it was never wearied with exercise . He was a stranger to few departments of knowledge . Wherever he was and in whatever society , he was anxious to learn something
which he might turn to the advantage of his profession / and ultimately to public good - His acquaintance with books was very extensive , and his library , which was arranged with care and kept in good order , contained many of the rarities of literature .
In early life , Mr . Parkes had known Dr . Priestley , and his admiration of this philosopher and divine was unbounded , A favourite object of his later years was the collection of a complete set of the Doctor ' s works , which at length he effected to his great satisfaction .
This collection is , we believe , for the arrangement and condition of the many volumes , unique . At one time he entertained the design , which his growing engagements chiefly induced him to abandon , of writing the life of
his favourite philosopher , and of publishing it in a form worthy of the subject . He also conceived the plan , which he had scarcely abandoned when he was overtaken by disease ^ of obtaining * a subscription for two handsome mural tablets , to be erected
in the new Gravel-Pit Chapel , to the memory of the two distinguished friends , successively ministers to the congregation assembling- there , Doctors Price and Priestley . His habits of industry and economy
caused him sometimes to appear in the eyes of strangers too attentive to trifles ; but those that knew him more iaUmutely witnessed some unsolicited acts of generous friendship . If it would not obtrude upon the sacre . dness of private life , the writer could
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Review of the preceding Numbers 0 / this Fofaime . Jt > 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/3/
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