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No . 10 . Sir , Last Wensday I received a letter from Mr . Noltenius , which is dated at Berlin , Aug . 8 , 1755 . I communicate to you this article .
" Aiez la bont £ d ' assurer Mr . le Dr . Ward , des mes respects , et de lurdirev que dans le controverse de Mr . Clift et de Mr . Funccius sur les fables de Phedre , il n ' ait rien paru de cdt ^ et d ' autre , que ce qu'il peut avoir vu il y a long terns : mais que Mr . Clift prepare un noveau livre qui sera iinprime ' dans peu . En fin , que Mr . Stoeber , dont il souhaite avoir des nouvelles , est ^ Strashrtiiror rn aitrp . pn arts " a oiras ^ uui ui cuuc cu m la
g . Mr . Noltenius and Mr . Bamberr * send compliments to their friends , several of which are named , particularly Mr . Thomson . If you see him at the Coffee House or elsewhere , be pleased to let Mr . Thomson know this . My age and situation do not permit me to be in the " city in the evening * . Your sincere and affectionate friend and humble servant , Nath . Lardnbr . Hoxton Square , Oct . 18 , 1755 . For Dr . Ward , at Gresham Colleg-e , in Bishopggate Street .
. * " Mons . Bamberger , a Protestant Diviue at Berlin , " who had translated Dr . Benson ' s " Treatise upon the Resurrection of Jesus Christ , " and his ** Essay concerning the Belief of Things which are above Reason . " Also , " Bishop Hoadley ' s Plain Account . " See Mows . B . 's Letter to Dr . Benson , Biog . Brit , II . 204 .
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No . 11 . Rev . Sir , Hoxton Square , Dec . 10 , 1765 . I am favoured with your letter of the 6 th instant . 1 am glad you are undertaking Memoirs of the Life of Dr . Ward . f For they will be an honour to him M . y acquaintance with him began a short time before he laid down his school , which was in an alley or court in Little Moorfields without Moorgate . I know nothing of the former part of his life , nor of his parents , or t&e place of his nativity , or his education , nor of his family , } except that he had a sister , who died before him . Jf his and my good friend , Mr . Joseph Burrough , the Baptist Minister , § were living" , he could inform us concerning all these things .
T ihese Dr . Birch did not live to publish , or probably to avail himself of this or any further communication from Dr . Lardner . " His health declining , lie was ordered to ride for the recovery of it ; but being a bad horseman , and going out , contrary to advice , on a frosty day , he was thrown from his horse and killed on the spot , Jau . 9 , 1766 , in his 61 st year . " " His last performance was a short sketch of * the Life of Dr . John Ward , ' which appeared in 1766 . " Brit . Biog . X . 266 , 270 ; Biog . Brit . II . 318 . X "John Ward , LL . D ., was born in London about 1679 ; his father was a Dissenting minister . In the early part of his life , he was clerk in the Navy Office ; but , at his leisure hours , he prosecuted his studies by the assistance of one Dr . Ker , a Scotsman , who kept an academy . In 1710 , he resigned his employment in the Navy Office ; became a tutor to a certain number of the children of his friends ; and for this purpose opened a school in Tenter Alley in Moorfields , which he kept many years . In 1712 , he became a member of a private society of gentlemen , who entertained each other with discourses on the civil law ; and the society was existing till 1742 . In 1720 , Mr . Ward was become su eminent for his learning and knowledge of antiquity , that he was choscu Professor of Rhetoric in Gresham College . In 1723 , during the Presidency of Sir Isaac Newton , he was elected Fellow of the Royal 6 ociety ; and in 1752 , one of its Vice-Presidents , in which office he was continued till his death , Oct . 17 , 1758 , in his 80 ih year , at Gresham College , " the lives of whose Professors he had published in 1740 , Dr . Birch in Gen . Biog . Diet . ( 1784 ) , XII . 443 , 444 . § Dr . Ward was a Nonconformist of the Baptist persuasion , though probably not a preacher .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/29/
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