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    nirj { $ ( the able tutor and predecessor , of ^ oddridge , ) he removed tt > Kibw ^ Fth , where he raised a flourishing school by assiduities , which \ yere almost too much for

    his lender , health ; for , after his accMe ^ t afeove ^ ipentioned , much speaking was always a toil to Aim , and be soon came to suffer under asthmatic attacks , which he

    always believed to have a consumptive tendency * It , lias - been ? lamented by Mr . Wakefieldy mi his otherwise veiy jn $ t account of Dr . Aikin , that he was occasionally severe in his ; correction of his scholars . . But those who

    know any thing of the variety of tempers and dispositions which occur in a numerous school , will not allow the reports of individual dullness ami obstinacy , to stand against the warm attachment ] and

    even veneration of the general body . ;« TJw * t : Dr . Aikin ' s temper was capable of being moved , may well be expected by any one who considers his activity and energy of mind . Bot that he well knew

    how to support his authority and , ip cases of delinquency , toti commapd , submission , by dignified remonstrance , and sometimes severe , \>\ lk ^ waysj ^ rr ^ istible , < re *

    proof , ; a ^ H those who were his pu * pils ^ at a su bsequent period , must be sufficiently sensible : and that he was not . therefore , likely , ex-* gtot lhi . px . tteme , cssesu to tteqd the

    unpleasantu recourse to ( corporal punishment , may well be pre-^ n ^ . If to this >^ > c » d : the opposing teslimony which the writer jpos ^ essftsy we x ^ ay be satis-Aed that the discipiine . ¦ vvt ^ ' hh «< jhool ^ ' ^ i ^^^ ite ^ ixdbi ; xUMdmrtiS , C 6 fepar ^< l w it h tht ^ * nanner ^ qf tjbe time . That lie eocouTf ^ d ntes scholars , according to their capa-

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    city , as , be afterwards did his ptu pils of a higher class , to free fa * nailiar conversation , and even de » bate ^ we have a pleading speci - men in the interesting Memoirs oi Mr , Cappe , prefixed to his postbir ^ ibous works , by his excellent

    WiMJoW , * - : . - ¦; : : >< ; - i' ? ' . iK /' : ^; Wi tb regard ! tdftfo g ^ ietal faodf ci pupils at a country school , situated in the midst of a

    manufacturing district , it jnay be presumed that they were chiefly designed fora business ; nor is it easy at this distance of time , to recollect many who were afterwards known in the literary ^ ivbrML T 5 b Mr

    Cappe , however , may beftdrita&iit living and venerable character * © a ?* Cogan , of Clapton ; and yauiraJbi ^ ary of last monthty * ^ &miM& & ®® m ther to the list , in ifr ^ Hiross ^ f St . Albans . One of Ws ^ parlicutor

    friends , during his fiesidence at Kibwortb , was Dr . ( Aen Mr . ) Pulteney , of Leicester , wdb © afi ^ r * wards distinguished himself as an eminent naturalist and physician After many yeaarsiuhus

    lahwiously spent , he removed to War * riugton in the month m £ : * Amgastj 1768 , chiefly induced by the expectation of living : more > tahi& * self / ( for he determined tohavfiftto boarders , though oten niuch soli *

    cited ) , and 6 f > enjoying * « p « e » society suited to- * his h % Wy ^ ¥ « liSvated taste On his . arriv ^ l 5 the establishment i £ the ac ^ de ^ ny was considered as cornpl ^ te , as lar at

    leMtw a % ^ tKe fuft £$ Wt : ttlfe if ^ titatioti ; ^> ul ^ . $ Mjp tl lM 4 W ^ entered immediately Upon t ) b « classical depaTtrn € fGt ; 7 besides which , he hud two clttrtea ia tbe F ^^ % ^^ jr i ^ ^?*^ 5 ^ , ^ 11 ¦¦^^^^ MMuwnrfT ' . ¦ - - - ¦— - — *— —~^^—— - ^ - "'—*™^^^—^^^^^^¦^^^^^^^^ W ^^^^^ r ^ ' ^ P' ^ 'l <¦ ' -

    * See Devotional Sermon * , I *** - p . 14 .

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    164 Historical Account tf He Wbm * gt < m Acade&y .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 164, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/16/