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    INTELLIGENCE.

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    as his favourite jpirovihce . He resided for 'some time at EainMrgh , a « d became , intimately acquainted with the distinguished young men who set on foot the Edinburgh Review in 1802 . To "this publication he contributed several articles on Greek literature : the Critique on Heyne * s Homer in the 4 th No , on Schweigliauser ' s Athenaens in the 5 th , on Bloomneld * s

    Prometheus in the 35 th , and on Porson s Hecuba in the 37 th . In the Quarterly Review he wrote , among other articles , that on Markland's Supplices . The only instance ( it is believed ) of his taking up his pen for a political purpose , was in a Critique on Lord Clarendon ' s Religion and Policy in the 38 th Number of the Edinburgh Review . His more ostensible contributions to classical literature

    are well known : an edition of the Acharnanes in 1809 ; of the GSdipus Tyranuus in 1811 ; of the Heraclidae in 1815 ; of the Medea in 1818 ; of the Baechse in 1821 ; and lastly , of the CEdipus Coloneus in 1823 . For the sake of collating MSS . he visited France and Italy several times , and spent the entire winter of

    1818 , in the Laurentian Library of Florence . In 1819 he accepted of a sort of commission from our government jointly with Sir Humphrey Davy , to superintend the developement of the papyri found at Herculaneum . The experiment , as is well known , proved abortive , and Mr . Emlsley returned to England in 1820 , his constitution impaired by a fever with which he was seized at Turin . Henceforward he lived principally at Oxford : he took the degree of D . D ., became

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    . DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association . The half-yearly Meeting of this Association , was held at Honirou on Thursday , April Mfh , 1825 . The chapel of the

    Rev . Mr . Hughes was opened for divine service twice in the day . In the morning , the Revds . Acton and Wright performed the devotional parts , and Dr . Davies preached a very interesting discourse from John xvii . 3 * Its defence of Unitarian principles , and its truly Christian

    spirit , gratified all who heard it . In the evening the Rev . Mr . Smeihurst introduced the service , and the Rev . H . Clarke , of Frenchay , gave a sermon m his ' usua , ! extemporaneous manner , which possessed great me ' iit , and was heard with deep attention .

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    Principal of Atbafl Hall and Caiad ea Professor of History in 1823 , and was justly expected to succeed oil the next vacancy of a cantmry of Christ Church . His astonishing comprehensiveness and Exactitude of learning was nutted to a sound and clear judgment and an habitual impartiality . Averse to all that wore the

    appearance of passion , or even of as much zeal as men of less phlegmatic temperaments cannot but mingle with their opinions , he was generally inclined to a middle course in speculation as well as practice , and looked with philosophic tranquillity on the contending factions , religious or political , whom history

    displayed to him , or whom he witnessed in his own age . If he spoke with asperity or marked contempt of any , it was of hotheaded and bigoted partisans , whose presumptuous ignorance is so often united with disingenuous sophistry . These were frequently the objects of a vein of pleasantry , wherein he particularly

    excelled . In the quick perception of the ludicrous , and in fondness for comedies and other light reading , as well as in his erudition and sagacity , he bore a resemblance to Porson . His life was uniformly regular , and his conversation ^ though free from solemnity , was strictly correct .

    His last months called forth the qualities which support and dignify the hours of sorrow and suffering : a steady fortitude that uttered no complaint and betrayed no infirmity ; with a calm and pious resignation , in that spirit of Christian philosophy he had always cultivated , to the pleasure of his Creator . ( Gent , Mag )

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    The business of the day was more than usually interesting . Several members of the Society , and the committee in particular , have been anxious to extend its usefulness by the introduction of missionary preaching ; and an address

    was circulated in the month of March , with a view of obtaining the general assistance of the Society to the measure . [ See Christian Reformer for March , p . 107 . ] A copy of the report &c , may not be uuiutetesting .

    Report . The business of this Committee has , in former vears , been of a nature which did not require the presentation of a formal report of their proceedings . A change in this respect renders it expedient that , 5 n resigning the power entrusted to them , they should advert to the course of then' transactions during the past year . The circulation of cheap tracts has

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    31 © fnteiCe&ence . *— Somerset and Dorset Unitarian Association

    Intelligence.

    INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1825, page 310, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2536/page/54/