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    they had left the academy , when they were occasionally passing through Warrington , and staying there only a few hours , joined the students in attending his lecture . And I particularly remember a

    young gentleman of fortune , who was repeatedly and strongly repri . manded by the Dr . for his misconduct , while he expressed to me the vexation he felt at these

    reproofs , and the deep impression which the Dr ' s mode of delivering them made upon him , continued , notwithstanding , to attend even the moral lectures , which , he said , were highly interesting to him . ' *

    In the present writer ' s time , the course pursued by the divinity-5 tudents was nearly as follows . From the first to the third year , besides pursuing their classical and mathematical studies , and at .

    tending the lectures on the belles lettres , history and natural philosophy , under the other tutors , they were immediately entered by Dr . Aikin , on the study of the

    Hebrew language , and conducted through a course of logic ; the second year they proceeded to pneumatology and ethics ; in the former of which he took"

    Doddridge for his text-book , but by oo means closely confined himself to that writer ' s method , and not at all to his particular views on the various subjects treated of in that multifarious work , the plan of which had been originally laid by

    M «\ John Jennings , Dod'dridge ' s tutor , and Dr . Aikin ' s father-inlaw ; but , having been continually receiving fresh additions , it bad lost that unity of scheme , and concatenation of subjects , which alone could render the mathematical form excusable . In ethics , he sometimes followed Doddridge ' s

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    method , but more frequently pur ^ Ued a sche me of his own , not *

    however , materially differing from that of David Fordyce , in the Preceptor . Whichever plan he pursued , he amplified upon his written notes , by copious extemporary enlargements , enlivened by

    quotations of the most spirited passages of the ancient poets and moralists ; nor was he sparing of illustrations from the scriptures , thereby rendering his ethical instructions not a mere course of

    lectures on natural religion , and social and personal virtue , but interweaving ( as Paley has since done ) the scheme of Jewish and Christian ethics , with able vindications of the superior wisdom , propriety and authority of both their rules and sanctions . In the

    division of ethics , usually denominated jurisprudence , he availed himself of his legal knowledge , to discuss a great variety of questions relating to the interests , duties .

    and rights of menl , both civil and religious , with the principles which ought to regulate both civil and commercial intercourse ; and be thus introduced to the

    knowledge of his pupils , the principal topics of the science now called political philosophy and economy , A course of this kind Would

    naturally prepare the youthful mind for entering with an attention suited to its importance on the investigation of the evidences of revealed religion * This composed the chief business of the third year .

    In this part of the course , Doddridge was taken as a texubook ; and there can scarcely be a better . He objected , indeed , to the presupposition of evidence , external and internal , which may be < lx-

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    Hutorical Account t > f the WurringtoH Academy . 16 ;

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/19/