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scale-colour. This animal Mr. Jones affirmed to be an admirable resemblance
of a great favourite of the epicures in that country, which bore the title of
lake-fish; and doubtless the assertion was true; for, although intended to
answer the purposes of a weathercock, the fish was observed invariably to
look, with a longing eye, in the direction of the beautiful sheet of water
that lay imbedded in the mountains of Templeton.
For a short time after the charter of the regents was received, the trustees
of this institution employed a graduate of one of the eastern colleges, to
instruct such youth as aspired to knowledge, within the walls of the edifice
which we have described. The upper part of the building was in one apartment,
and was intended for gala-days and exhibitions; and the lower contained two,
that were intended for the great divisions of education, viz. the Latin and
the English scholars. The former were never very numerous; though the sounds
of nominative,pennaa; genitive,penny, were soon heard to issue from the
windows of the room, to the great delight and manifest edification of the
passengers.
Only one labourer in this temple of Minerva, however, was known to get so far
as to attempt a translation of Virgil. He, indeed, appeared at the annual
exhibition, to the prodigious exultation of all his relatives, a farmer s
family in the vicinity, and repeated the whole of the first eclogue from
memory, observing the intonations of the dialogue with much judgment and
effect. The sounds, as they proceeded from his mouth, of
Titty-ree too patty-lee ree-coo-bans sub teg-mi-nee faa-gy
Syl-ves-trem ten-oo-i moo-sam med-i taa-ris aa-ve-ny --
were the last that had been heard in that building, as probably they were the
first that had ever been heard, in the same language, there or any where else.
For by this time the trustees had discovered, that they had anticipated the
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age, and theinstructor, orprincipal, was superseded by amaster, who went on to
teach the more humble lesson of the more haste the worse speed, in good,
plain English.
From this time, until the date of our incidents, the Academy was a common
country school; and the great room of the building was sometimes used as a
court-room, on extraordinary trials; sometimes for conferences of the
religious and the morally disposed in the evening; at others for a ball in the
afternoon, given under the auspices of Richard; and on Sundays, invariably, as
a place of public worship.
When an itinerant priest, of the persuasion of the Methodists, Baptists,
Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians, was
accidentally in the neighbourhood, he was ordinarily invited to officiate, and
was commonly rewarded for his services by a collection in a hat, before the
congregation separated. When no such regular minister offered, a kind of
colloquial prayer or two was made, by some of the more gifted members, and a
sermon was usually read, from Sterne, by Mr Richard Jones.
The consequence of this desultory kind of priesthood was, as we have already
intimated, a great diversity in opinion, on the more abstruse points of our
faith. Each sect had its adherents, though neither was regularly organized and
disciplined. Of the religious education of Marmaduke, we have already written,
nor was the doubtful character of his faith completely removed by his
marriage. The mother of Elizabeth was an Episcopalian, as, indeed, was the
mother of the Judge himself; and the good taste of Marmaduke revolted at the
familiar colloquies which the leaders of the conferences held with the Deity,
in their nightly meetings. In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though
not a sectary of that denomination. On the other hand, Richard was as rigid in
the observance of the canons of his church, as he was inflexible in his
opinions. Indeed, he had once or twice essayed to introduce the Episcopal form
of service, on the Sundays that their pulpit was vacant; but Richard was a
good deal addicted to carrying all things to an excess, and then there was
something so papal in his air, that the greater part of his hearers deserted
him on the second Sabbath--on the third, his only auditor was Ben Pump!
Before the war of the revolution, the English church was supported, in their
colonies, with much interest, by some of its adherents in the mother country,
and a few of the congregations were very amply endowed. But, for a season,
after the independence of the states was established, this sect of Christians
languished, for the want of the highest order of its priesthood. Pious and
suitable divines were at length selected, and sent to the mother country, to
receive that authority, which, it is understood, can only be transmitted
directly from one to the other, and thus obtain, in order to preserve, that
unity in their churches, which properly belonged to a people of the same
nation. But unexpected difficulties presented themselves, in the oaths with
which the policy of England had fettered their establishment; and much time
was spent, before a conscientious sense of duty would permit the prelates of
Britain to delegate the authority which was so earnestly sought. Time,
patience, and zeal, however, removed every impediment; and the venerable men,
who had been set apart by the American churches, at length returned to their
expecting diocesses, endowed with the most elevated functions of their earthly
church. Priests and deacons were ordained; and missionaries provided, to keep
alive the expiring flame of devotion in such members as were deprived of the
ordinary ministrations, by dwelling in new and unorganized districts.
Of this number was Mr. Grant. He had been sen into the county of which
Templeton was the capital, and had been kindly invited by Marmaduke, and
officiously pressed by Richard, to take up his abode in the village itself. A
small and humble dwelling was prepared for his family, and the divine had made
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his appearance in the place, but a few days previously to the time of his
introduction to the reader. As his forms were entirely new to most of the
inhabitants, and a clergyman of another denomination had previously occupied
the field, by engaging the academy, the first Sunday after his arrival was
suffered to pass in silence; but now that his rival had passed on, like a
meteor, filling the air with the light of his wisdom, Richard was empowered to
give notice, that Public worship, after the forms of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, would be held, on the night before Christmas, in the long-room of the
academy in Templeton, by the Rev. Mr. Grant.
This annunciation excited great commotion among the sectaries to whom it was
made. Some wondered as to the nature of the exhibition; others sneered; but a
far greater part, recollecting the essays of Richard in that way, and mindful
of the liberality, or rather laxity, of Marmaduke s notions on the subject of
sectarianism, thought it most prudent to be silent.
The expected evening was, however, the wonder of the hour; nor was the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
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scale-colour. This animal Mr. Jones affirmed to be an admirable resemblance
of a great favourite of the epicures in that country, which bore the title of
lake-fish; and doubtless the assertion was true; for, although intended to
answer the purposes of a weathercock, the fish was observed invariably to
look, with a longing eye, in the direction of the beautiful sheet of water
that lay imbedded in the mountains of Templeton.
For a short time after the charter of the regents was received, the trustees
of this institution employed a graduate of one of the eastern colleges, to
instruct such youth as aspired to knowledge, within the walls of the edifice
which we have described. The upper part of the building was in one apartment,
and was intended for gala-days and exhibitions; and the lower contained two,
that were intended for the great divisions of education, viz. the Latin and
the English scholars. The former were never very numerous; though the sounds
of nominative,pennaa; genitive,penny, were soon heard to issue from the
windows of the room, to the great delight and manifest edification of the
passengers.
Only one labourer in this temple of Minerva, however, was known to get so far
as to attempt a translation of Virgil. He, indeed, appeared at the annual
exhibition, to the prodigious exultation of all his relatives, a farmer s
family in the vicinity, and repeated the whole of the first eclogue from
memory, observing the intonations of the dialogue with much judgment and
effect. The sounds, as they proceeded from his mouth, of
Titty-ree too patty-lee ree-coo-bans sub teg-mi-nee faa-gy
Syl-ves-trem ten-oo-i moo-sam med-i taa-ris aa-ve-ny --
were the last that had been heard in that building, as probably they were the
first that had ever been heard, in the same language, there or any where else.
For by this time the trustees had discovered, that they had anticipated the
Page 56
ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html
age, and theinstructor, orprincipal, was superseded by amaster, who went on to
teach the more humble lesson of the more haste the worse speed, in good,
plain English.
From this time, until the date of our incidents, the Academy was a common
country school; and the great room of the building was sometimes used as a
court-room, on extraordinary trials; sometimes for conferences of the
religious and the morally disposed in the evening; at others for a ball in the
afternoon, given under the auspices of Richard; and on Sundays, invariably, as
a place of public worship.
When an itinerant priest, of the persuasion of the Methodists, Baptists,
Universalists, or of the more numerous sect of the Presbyterians, was
accidentally in the neighbourhood, he was ordinarily invited to officiate, and
was commonly rewarded for his services by a collection in a hat, before the
congregation separated. When no such regular minister offered, a kind of
colloquial prayer or two was made, by some of the more gifted members, and a
sermon was usually read, from Sterne, by Mr Richard Jones.
The consequence of this desultory kind of priesthood was, as we have already
intimated, a great diversity in opinion, on the more abstruse points of our
faith. Each sect had its adherents, though neither was regularly organized and
disciplined. Of the religious education of Marmaduke, we have already written,
nor was the doubtful character of his faith completely removed by his
marriage. The mother of Elizabeth was an Episcopalian, as, indeed, was the
mother of the Judge himself; and the good taste of Marmaduke revolted at the
familiar colloquies which the leaders of the conferences held with the Deity,
in their nightly meetings. In form, he was certainly an Episcopalian, though
not a sectary of that denomination. On the other hand, Richard was as rigid in
the observance of the canons of his church, as he was inflexible in his
opinions. Indeed, he had once or twice essayed to introduce the Episcopal form
of service, on the Sundays that their pulpit was vacant; but Richard was a
good deal addicted to carrying all things to an excess, and then there was
something so papal in his air, that the greater part of his hearers deserted
him on the second Sabbath--on the third, his only auditor was Ben Pump!
Before the war of the revolution, the English church was supported, in their
colonies, with much interest, by some of its adherents in the mother country,
and a few of the congregations were very amply endowed. But, for a season,
after the independence of the states was established, this sect of Christians
languished, for the want of the highest order of its priesthood. Pious and
suitable divines were at length selected, and sent to the mother country, to
receive that authority, which, it is understood, can only be transmitted
directly from one to the other, and thus obtain, in order to preserve, that
unity in their churches, which properly belonged to a people of the same
nation. But unexpected difficulties presented themselves, in the oaths with
which the policy of England had fettered their establishment; and much time
was spent, before a conscientious sense of duty would permit the prelates of
Britain to delegate the authority which was so earnestly sought. Time,
patience, and zeal, however, removed every impediment; and the venerable men,
who had been set apart by the American churches, at length returned to their
expecting diocesses, endowed with the most elevated functions of their earthly
church. Priests and deacons were ordained; and missionaries provided, to keep
alive the expiring flame of devotion in such members as were deprived of the
ordinary ministrations, by dwelling in new and unorganized districts.
Of this number was Mr. Grant. He had been sen into the county of which
Templeton was the capital, and had been kindly invited by Marmaduke, and
officiously pressed by Richard, to take up his abode in the village itself. A
small and humble dwelling was prepared for his family, and the divine had made
Page 57
ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html
his appearance in the place, but a few days previously to the time of his
introduction to the reader. As his forms were entirely new to most of the
inhabitants, and a clergyman of another denomination had previously occupied
the field, by engaging the academy, the first Sunday after his arrival was
suffered to pass in silence; but now that his rival had passed on, like a
meteor, filling the air with the light of his wisdom, Richard was empowered to
give notice, that Public worship, after the forms of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, would be held, on the night before Christmas, in the long-room of the
academy in Templeton, by the Rev. Mr. Grant.
This annunciation excited great commotion among the sectaries to whom it was
made. Some wondered as to the nature of the exhibition; others sneered; but a
far greater part, recollecting the essays of Richard in that way, and mindful
of the liberality, or rather laxity, of Marmaduke s notions on the subject of
sectarianism, thought it most prudent to be silent.
The expected evening was, however, the wonder of the hour; nor was the [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]