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The privileges of the University of Cambridge: Together with additional observations on its history, antiquities, literature, and biography
The privileges of the University of Cambridge Together with additional observations on its history antiquities literature and biography Author:George Dyer Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Original Publisher: Printed for Longman Subjects: Art / Typography Education / Higher Study Aids / College Guides Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the... more » General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Edw. Pearson (Master), A. M. 1785, S. T. B. 1792, was an eminent Armiuiau divine, who published numerous Ser- oious, some addressed to academical youth, others delivered as Warburtonian Lectures. He also published Remarks on Dr. Paley, aud Observations on Morals, a volume on Family Prayer, and an Essfliy that obtained the Norrisian prize in 1786. Dr. Pearson was nearly of the same school with Djt. Hey, but was more zealous against some of those feelings and doctrines, which are sometimes denominated Methodism. Christopher Hunter, Fellow, S. T. B. 1776, Rector of Gayton, Northamptonshire, was editor of the poems of the celebrated Cliristopher Smart, A. M. of Pembroke Hall, and prefixed his Life; a tribute of respect to him as iiis near relation. I am not aware that Mr. Hunter published any thing else, except a Sermon, preached at Northampton. DOWNING COLLEGE. I know of nothing that can be said further of Downing College, at present, except that a few fossils, antiquities, and books, have been bequeathed to it, the first beginning of a Museum and Library. The books are principally topographical, and manuscript, or writings relating to the town of Cambridge. I should not have noticed them, being few, though valuable, but for circumstances connected with the person who bequeathed them: this was Mr. John Bowtell, an inhabitant of the town, who died December 1813. John Bowtell, though not a native of Cambridge, was an inhabitant of Trinity parish, in that town, where he followed ...« less