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    leagues , and with the trustees , and on all occasions acted as a general friend and a bond of union . His influence over the students , "

    which was very great , arose not merely from the excellence of his instructions , but from the kind concern which he took in their welfare , and the affectionate interest with which he always tempered

    the authority which appeared in his private advices , or , where he saw it necessary , his reproofs and remonstrances , Being of course , constantly spoken 6 i in the language of warm attachment and

    reverence by the students who were his immediate pupils , he became the object of a veneration bordering upon awe among those who were not ; and though his delicate state of health prevented his frequent personal intercourse

    with the students at large , and absolutely precluded his taking part in the ordinary routine of academical discipline , yet this very circumstance gave additional weight to his authority when circumstances occurred that called for

    his interference ; which was always exercised after a previous cool , clear-sighted investigation , which put him in possession of tiie whole case : after which his

    decision was made with promptitude and firmness , and the measures dictated by it were declared and executed , with a dignity and propriety peculiar to himself , and always perfectly efficient *

    After Mr . Walker ' s departure from the academy , in 1773 , the Aands of the institution being not thought adequate to the maintain , arrce of a third tutor , Dr . Enfield undertook the mathematical department , and Dr , Aikiii exonerated him off * hfc classical part of

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    his former charge . . _ Though this unreasonable imposition on too willing and generous minds , mate - rially injured the health of both , yet for some time Dr . Aikin was

    kept in a tolerably comfortable state , by great care and regular gentle exercise on horse ^ backv But about the year 1778 , his attacks of asthma becoming snore frequent and violent , he obtained for a short time the assistance of his

    late pupil / Mr * Hojjghton , and in 1779 f Mr * Wakefield was chosen a regular third tutor . The asthmatic paroxysms , however , increasing , he grew gradually less able to discharge , without great

    difficulty , the dudes of hid proper province ; and on the 14 th of December , 1780 , he closed a life of honour and usefulness , in a manner becoming his Christian

    profession * His death was felt as a severe blow , by ail the friends of truth and learning ; but was an irreparable loss to those students who were under his immediate

    care . He was attended by the whole academical body to his grave , on the north side of the parish church , ( a spot that has often since been visited ); and . on

    the following Sunday , Dr . Enfield pronounced an elegant fetid welldrawn , but somewhat diffuse , ( yet not sufficiently particular ) eulogium , on his late venerable colleague , in the form of a funeral seraioru

    It was afterwards published ; the title-page bears the following strikingly characteristic motto , from Cicero * u Erant in eo plurimae liters ,

    nee ese vulgares , sed interiores quaedam et recondite * : sumttta verborum et gravitas et elegaiitia : atque hffec omnia vitse dexrorabat dignities et integritas * Quanta re-

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    170 Historical Account of tie IVarrington Academy .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1813, page 170, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2426/page/22/