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Excerpt from The Works of the Reverend Thomas Townson, D. D., Late Archdeacon of Richmond; One of the Rectors of Malpas, Cheshire; And Sometime Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Author, With an Introduction to the Discourses on the Gospels, and a Sermon on the Quotations in the Old Testament

Having been instructed a while by his excellent father, he was placed under the Reverend Henry Nott, vicar Of the neighbouring parish Of Terling; where he was soon distinguished for quickness Of apa prehension and a most retentive memory'. From Terling he was removed to the free school at Fel~ sted, a seminaryof antient repute, where, besides other persons Of eminence, Dr. Wallis and Dr. Bar row were educated. It flourished at this time under the direction Of the Rev; Mr. Wyatt, studious alike to cultivate purity Of morals and accuracy Of learn ing in his young charge. Mr. Townson's father however, though he Confided his son to so worthy a master, did not neglect one precaution which was, to put into his hands such editions or such copies Of Horace and other classics, from which those passages that cannot enter the mind without contaminating it, had been carefully expunged; with an injunction religiously to avoid the danger Of perusing them. He remembered with gratitude this parental precept throughout life, and, as occasion served, gave simi lar advice to others; convinced that the absence Of temptation, and ignorance of vice, are among the best preservatives against its contagion.

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Excerpt from The Works of the Reverend Thomas Townson, D. D., Late Archdeacon of Richmond; One of the Rectors of Malpas, Cheshire; And Sometime Fellow of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford, Vol. 1 of 2: To Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Author, With an Introduction to the Discourses on the Gospels, and a Sermon on the Quotations in the Old Testament

Now, Jove, he said, Tarpeian towers oppose, And walls where Mars his habitation chose: To Tiber's stream if Adria must give way, The glories of each city well survey' On the authority of the late James Harris, Esq. Of Salisbury, one of whose ancestors married a daughter Of Bishop Townson. See Gent. Mag 1792, p. 817.

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