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New edition, corrected ; 320 pp. ; 19 cm. ; full leather ; repair to front cover ; William Enfield "was born of poor parents at Sudbury, Suffolk, on 29 March 1741. His earliest instructor was the Rev. William Hextall, a dissenting minister, by whose advice he was prepared for the ministry, and sent, in his seventeenth year, to the Daventry Academy, then conducted by Dr. Caleb Ashworth. He was there educated as one of the alumni of the presbyterian fund. In November 1763 he was ordained minister of the congregation of protestant dissenters at Benn's Garden, Liverpool. In 1770 he succeeded the Rev. John Seddon as tutor in belles-lettres and rector of the academy at Warrington. That institution was from various causes in a declining condition, and it was dissolved in 1783. In the meantime he established a sound reputation as a divine and author, and the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by the university of Edinburgh on 8 March 1774.[H]e receiv[ed] an invitation (in 1785) to the Octagon Chapel at Norwich. For some time after taking up his residence near that city he received pupils at his house, as he had done at Warrington, and among them were Denman, afterwards lord chief justice, and Maltby, subsequent bishop of Durham. Enfield was an amiable and estimable man, an influential writer and persuasive preacher, and was a leading figure in the literary society of both Warrington and Norwich. He died at Norwich on 3 Nov. 1797, aged 56."--from Memoirs of John Aikin, 1823 ; cellophane taped repair to front endpaper ; POOR. Seller Inventory # 4819
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Title: The speaker, or, Miscellaneous pieces, ...
Publisher: New York : Published by Evert Duyckinck, 102 Pearl Street, 1814.
Publication Date: 1814
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Poor
Book Type: Book
