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MEMOIR OF ROBERT ROBINSON.
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[ A Correspondent suggests that it might gratify our readers to extract from the American " Christian Examiner" a memoir which has lately ap * peared of Robert Robinson . We adopt the suggestion , because it is always interesting to see how characters which we value are appreciated in foreign countries . ]
Robert Robinson was an extraordinary man . He was remarkable for the changes of his life ; for his genius ; for his native , vigorous , but somewhat undisciplined powers of mind ; for his unwearied activity in different occupations wholly unlike each other ; for his strong , benevolent , unrefined virtues , a little tinctured with vanity ; for his excellent , though imperfect views of true religion , and of what constitutes the character of a Christian ; for the real pleasure which it gave him to manifest his hearty contempt of all
the various classes of pretenders , who elect themselves to constitute the world ' s aristocracy of saints ; for the keen relish with which he Was disposed to pull off and pull to pieces sanctimonious affectation , hypocrisy , pretension , and parade ; and for a corresponding independence of character in all things , which often shot out into eccentricities , half natural , half a matter of ostentation . In his own day , we believe , he had no rival as an
eloquent extempore preacher , with power to command the attention , equally of the refined and the most uncultivated . In the society of Baptists at Cambridge , which he may almost be said to have formed , his successor has been the famous Robert Hall , a man apparently with reater advantages of education , and a more finished writer , but not his superior in native powers , and not his equal in liberality of feeling and just conceptions of religion . Robinson forced his way upward to distinction unaer very unfavourable circumstances . He was born in 1735 . His father , who held an office in the excise , was a worthless profligate . He ill treated his wife , who had been led to marry him against her father ' s consent , partly from the unkindness
which she experienced at home . He died when his son Robert , the youngest of three children , was about seven years old , leaving his family in distress through poverty . Of the two other children , one , a son , had been apprenticed to a painter , and the other , a daughter , to a mantuamaker . Robert was sent to a Latin school when six years old , where he recommended himself to the master by his abilities and good conduct , and made some profici-
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AUGUST , 1828 .
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XX .
Memoir Of Robert Robinson.
MEMOIR OF ROBERT ROBINSON .
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VOL . II . 2 O
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1828, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2563/page/1/
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