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which is not surprising , considering he had nineteen children and only £ 200 a year . He was a voluminous author and a poet , and is said to have originally held a place in the " Dunciad , " though it is certain his name never appeared in any of the printed editions . He was a rigid disciplinarian , being a high church divine , and a severe and almost Chinese asserter of the paternal authority . He was a man of some humour , and
an anecdote is here related in proof of it : —It appears that he was distressed at pereeiving in his clerk a great degree of vanity and self-conceit , so great as to fancy himself only a degree below his master ; whereupon he determined to humble said clerk . It was his practice to invest this unlucky wight with his own cast-off wigs , of which , though much too large , John was extremely proud . One of these wigs was made the medium of mortification . Mr Wesley , on a particular Sunday , when John ' s
head appeared unusually lost in its canonical attire , gave out for singing the psalm which commences , " Like to an owl in ivy bush !"—and when the clerk proceeded to the following line in his usual twang , and sung " That rueful thing am I ! ' *—the congregation could not avoid perceiving the similitude , nor refrain from laughter . This gave unto our rector a full measure of satisfaction , " for John was mortified and his self-conceit lowered , "
The rector ought to have felt some compassion for poor John as a brother poet . It was he who , when King William returned to England after one of his expeditions , gave out in Epworth Church , " Let us sing to the praise and glory of God , a hymn of my own composing : "—
" King William is come home , come home , King William home is come ; Therefore let us together sing The hymn that ' s called " Te D ' um . "—Vol . i , p . 358 . We have said that Mr Wesley was a rigid disciplinarian ; Mrs Wesley however went beyond him . The details of her mode of educating her children are extremely curious . They slept , ate , played and prayed by rule . They were early taught " to fear the rod and cry softly , " and their
" wills were soon effectually broken . " It is chiefly in the observation of the results that these volumes will be found interesting . Most of the daughters were distinguished for their misfortunes . The unhappy and talented Mrs Wright was the principal " victim" among them , because she had the finest and most sensitive nature . Many specimens of her poetry , some of them exquisitely touching , are here preserved . The engravings from the portraits of John Wesley and his father are well executed and very characteristic .
• A Catechism of Elocution . Illustrated by various Exercises in Prose and Verse . By W . Roberts , Teacher of Elocution . We do not like this book at all . It is not without some mechanical ingenuity , and the author seems as convinced of the success of his plan , as a carpenter would be in " projecting " certain new * H 4 es lor a table . But we are equally satisfied that nothing at nil resembling real eloquence could be taurht by it ; and , more-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 582, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/58/
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