Moriah, Mount, 457 Prisons, children of, 91 New year, a question for the, 32 RAMBLE, a country, 334 Ready to depart, 472 Rebukes, 400 Reconcilement, court of, 80 Reformation, the evangelical, 414 Redeemer, the, 192 Reproofs, gentlem The wagoner, 39 The cruel boys, 64 The tombstone, 230 The ride to Greenwich, 278 The basket of apples, 416 Rest for them that labour, 436 Riches, 375 Robbers in Judea, 241 Rock, the smitten, 258 of Ages, 440 Romanists, idolatry of, 161 Scape goat, 360 Scripture, undesigned coincidences of, 22, illustration, 308, 452 the, in past times, 441 Servant, the way to have a good, 320 Soldier become a Christian, 111 Sorrow, comfort in, 40 Souls, losers of, 192 Stones, white, 296 Sunday among the hills, 279 153, 237 Village characters- The old campaigner, 58 Colleyberry C-, 353 TALE, an Arabian, 47 The pneumatic telegraph, 304 The electrical telegraph, 305 its own witness, 360 Whale on the British shores, 41 expected, 205 works, 272 World, inordinate attachment to the, 433 Worldly spirit, on a, 463 VILLAGE characters-- The atheist, 12 YEZIDEES, the, 409 LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. ........ ..... Page Page Sir William Jones 1 Roman soldiers attacking the robbers in The medicinal leach, two engravings.. 9 their caves........ 241 Thebes 17 257 Medal struck in commemoration of the Latimer preaching before Edward vi... 281 massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day.. 20 The Birs Nemroud 297 A whale caught near Charmouth beach 41 The lime 313 Animalcules--diagrams, 50, 51, 118, 119, The papyrus swamp 321 120, 163, 164, 165 Modern synagogue of the Jews 337 Mount Hor 57 Antiochus Epiphanes stopped by the Chapel of Henry VII., Westminster Roman Ambassadors 361 Abbey 81 Section of the electrical eel 363 Profession of a Benedictine monk 97 | Hebron 377 Brush turkey of Australia ... 121 | The larch 393 Land Slip, near Lyme, Devon...... 137 The Mujelibe 401 Adoration of the cross 161 Adaptation of fishes to their mode of The alder 170 life-seven engravings .. 405, 407, 408, Mountain pheasant of Australia ...... 177 Pilgrimages ..., 417 Crosby hall 201 English Bibles placed in churches .... 441 Chinese harrowing 211 | Mount Moriah 457 Antioch 225 | Wool comb 467 .... ...a SIR WILLIAM JONES. birth of his son William only three The family with which the subject of years, and died in July, 1749. Mrs. the present sketch was connected on the Jones was, however, endowed with much maternal side, has been traced to the an- ability, which was improved by the concient princes and chieftains of North versation and instruction of her husband; Wales. His father, a skilful mathema- she, in consequence, became a considerticjan, numbered among his intimate able proficient in algebra, and made herfriends, Sir Isaac Newton, Halley, Mead, self perfect in trigonometry and the and Dr. Johnson ; but he survived the theory of navigation. To the incessant JANUARY, 1841 B entreaties of her child for information, cation of time and talents. It is also which she watchfully stimulated, she worthy of observation, that he was as constantly replied, “ Read, and you will much indebted to his great industry and know ;” and by this method his desire attention to method, for his attainments, to learn became as eager as her wish to as to his superior capacity. In his nineteach; and in his fourth year he was teenth year he was recommended as able to read distinctly and rapidly any private tutor to Lord Althorpe, then English work. His future eminence is seven years old, afterwards the late Earl to be partly ascribed to the advantages Spencer. While at Harrow, the rehe was thus permitted to enjoy, as it is sidence of his noble pupil, he was into the uncommon talents with which he duced to peruse Beveridge's “Private was gifted; and through life he cherished Thoughts on Religion” with considerable for his mother the tenderest affection and attention; and he was particularly struck most filial respect. by one passage, in which the writer In his fifth year, as William Jones argues, that a profession of Christianity was one morning turning over the leaves merely because our countrymen profess of a Bible in his mother's closet, his at- | it, without candid inquiry and sincere tention was forcibly arrested by the sub-conviction, would be no better reason lime description of the angel in the tenth for our faith, than the Mohammedans chapter of the Revelation ; and the im- have for theirs. He was thus, it appression he received from it was never pears, led to reflect with more seriouseffaced. In the full maturity of his ness than he had ever before on the subjudgment, he considered the passage as ject of religion, and to examine the equal in sublimity to any in the inspired grounds on which the Bible has been writings, and far superior to all merely received as the word of God. human compositions; and he was fond of Mr. Jones subsequently resigned his retracing and mentioning the rapture tutorship, and determined to devote himwith which he first read it. self to the study and practice of the law. About two years after, he was sent to He still, however, gave much attention Harrow school, where he was long under to literature; and his “ Commentary on the care of the amiable Dr. Thackeray. Asiatic Poetry” was received with admi.. One of his schoolfellows was Bennet, ration and applause by the learned of our afterwards Bishop of Cloyne, who said, own country, and by the oriental scholars “I knew him from the early age of of Europe in general. In March, 1783, eight or nine, and he was always an un- he was appointed a judge of the Supreme common boy. Great abilities ; great Court of Judicature at Fort William, in particularity of thinking; fondness for Bengal, and received the honour of writing verses of various kinds; and a knighthood. degree of integrity and manly courage, It is pleasing to find this eminent man of which I remember many instances, associating with those who expressed distinguished him even at that period. their detestation of slavery, with its inI loved and revered him, and though numerable horrors. His sentiments on one or two years older than he was, I that question are thus recorded :was always instructed by him from my “I pass with haste by the coast of earliest age. It was a singular trait in Africa, whence my mind turns with inthe character of Dr. Thackeray, that he dignation at the abominable traffic in the never applauded the best compositions of human species, from which a part of our his scholars, from a notion that praise countrymen dare to derive their most only tended to make them vain or idle. inauspicious wealth. Sugar, it has been But the opinion that he gave of Jones in said, would be dear if it were not worked private was, that he was a boy of so very by blacks in the western islands; as if active a mind, that if he were left naked the most laborious, the most dangerous and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he works were not carried on in every would, nevertheless, find the road to fame country, but chiefly in England, by free and riches. in fact, they are so carried on, He afterwards went to the university with infinitely more advantage, for there of Oxford, where his partiality for ori- is an alacrity in a consciousness of freeental literature began to display itself: dom, and a gloomy sullen indolence in a and if his acquisitions at this period be consciousness of slavery. But let sugar compared with his years, few instances be as dear as it may, it is better to cat will be found of a more successful appli- none-to eat honey, if sweetness only be men; |
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