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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
there under Mr . Twells , whose son , afterwards , married his sister Elizabeth : but he had the chief part of his education at Chesham , in Rutlandshire , under Mr . Wright . Here he continued fill the beginning of the year 1714 ; when ' his cousin , Mr . Warburton , who also bore the name of William , being made head-master of the school of Newark , he returned to his native place ; and was for a short time ,
under the care of that learned and respe & ablc person , of whom more will be said hereafter . We will now only add , that he was father to the Reverend Mr . Thomas Warbuiton , the present very worlhy Archdeacon of Norfolk , to whom we are ' indebted for the particulars concerning his family . We cannotit must be confessedentertain the reader of flu ' s
nar-, , rative with those encomiums which are so commonly lavished on the puerile years of eminent men . On the best enquiry we have been able to make , we do not find , that during his stay at school , he distinguished himself b y any extraordinary efforts of genius or application . Our information authorizes us to go no further than to say , that he loved his book ancl his play , just as other boys dick And
upon reflection , we are not displeased with this modest testimony to his merit . It will be remembered what the best judges have thought of premature wits . And . we all know that the mountain-oak , which is one day to make the strength of our fleets , is of a slower growth than the saplings which adorn our gardens . Butalthough no prodi of parts or industry in those earl 3 'ears
, gy y , with a moderate share of each , he could not fail of acquiring , by the age of sixteen , the time when he left school , a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin , under such masters as those of Okeham arid Newark .
It had been his misfortune to lose his father very early . He died in 1706 ; and the care of his family devolved , of course , upon his widow ; who , as we have seen , gave her son the best school-education ; and , in all respects , approved herself so good a woman , as well as parent , that her children paid her all possible respecl :: her son , in particular , all whose affeftions were naturally warm , gave
her every proof of duty and observance , while she lived , and , after her death , retained so tender a regard to her memory , that he seldom spoke of her but with tears . The circumstances of the family could be , but moderate , and when Mr . Warburton had now finished his education at school , he was destined by his friends to that profession , which is thought to qualify
men best for the management of their own affairs , and which his father had followed with so much credit in that nei ghbourhood . He was-accordinglyput out clerk to Mr . Kirke , an eminent attorney of Great Markham , in Nottinghamshire , in April , ' 1714 , and continued with that gentleman five years , i . e . til ! the spring ' of the year 1719 . Tradition does not acquaint us how he acquitted himself in his clerkship : probably with no signal assiduitv . For now it was that
.tue bent of his genius appeared in a passionate love of reading , which was not lessened , we may believe , but increased , by his want of time and opportunity to indulge it
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
there under Mr . Twells , whose son , afterwards , married his sister Elizabeth : but he had the chief part of his education at Chesham , in Rutlandshire , under Mr . Wright . Here he continued fill the beginning of the year 1714 ; when ' his cousin , Mr . Warburton , who also bore the name of William , being made head-master of the school of Newark , he returned to his native place ; and was for a short time ,
under the care of that learned and respe & ablc person , of whom more will be said hereafter . We will now only add , that he was father to the Reverend Mr . Thomas Warbuiton , the present very worlhy Archdeacon of Norfolk , to whom we are ' indebted for the particulars concerning his family . We cannotit must be confessedentertain the reader of flu ' s
nar-, , rative with those encomiums which are so commonly lavished on the puerile years of eminent men . On the best enquiry we have been able to make , we do not find , that during his stay at school , he distinguished himself b y any extraordinary efforts of genius or application . Our information authorizes us to go no further than to say , that he loved his book ancl his play , just as other boys dick And
upon reflection , we are not displeased with this modest testimony to his merit . It will be remembered what the best judges have thought of premature wits . And . we all know that the mountain-oak , which is one day to make the strength of our fleets , is of a slower growth than the saplings which adorn our gardens . Butalthough no prodi of parts or industry in those earl 3 'ears
, gy y , with a moderate share of each , he could not fail of acquiring , by the age of sixteen , the time when he left school , a competent knowledge of Greek and Latin , under such masters as those of Okeham arid Newark .
It had been his misfortune to lose his father very early . He died in 1706 ; and the care of his family devolved , of course , upon his widow ; who , as we have seen , gave her son the best school-education ; and , in all respects , approved herself so good a woman , as well as parent , that her children paid her all possible respecl :: her son , in particular , all whose affeftions were naturally warm , gave
her every proof of duty and observance , while she lived , and , after her death , retained so tender a regard to her memory , that he seldom spoke of her but with tears . The circumstances of the family could be , but moderate , and when Mr . Warburton had now finished his education at school , he was destined by his friends to that profession , which is thought to qualify
men best for the management of their own affairs , and which his father had followed with so much credit in that nei ghbourhood . He was-accordinglyput out clerk to Mr . Kirke , an eminent attorney of Great Markham , in Nottinghamshire , in April , ' 1714 , and continued with that gentleman five years , i . e . til ! the spring ' of the year 1719 . Tradition does not acquaint us how he acquitted himself in his clerkship : probably with no signal assiduitv . For now it was that
.tue bent of his genius appeared in a passionate love of reading , which was not lessened , we may believe , but increased , by his want of time and opportunity to indulge it