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domestics together on Sabbath morning , and read to . them one of my father ' s manuscript sermons , repeat the Lord ' s prayer , ^ nd sing a hymn ; and he performed the service with such solemnity that he was always heard
with attention . I have heard my dear father say , he never knew him tell an untruth , or prevaricate in the least . Indeed there was
always something about him which gained the love of all who knew him ; and never any thing which made them fear their expectations of his future excellence would be
disappointed * € i We lost our excellent mother when he was six years old . But he had received an impression of her character which time could
not efface ; and I believe through life he was anxious to be , in every respect , what he knew she would have wished him to be . After he went to Exeter , he passed but
little time at home . The year bejbre he entered college , his eyes were so weak , that my father thought it necessary to take his books from him . It was a deprivation he could not bear to submit
to ; and he found means to secrete some old folios in the garret , which he would spend some time each day in reading . This is the only act of disobedience of which I ever knew him guilty . 1 perfectly remember the great delight he used to take in listening to the conversation of men of literature and
science , and in works of taste and i mag ination . But the progress o hjs mind , and the developeme nt o (\{ iis powers , I was too young fo Q ^ serye or take an interest in . - ^ - ^ hpuld this letter contain any such iojor ^ ation , as you wish , I shall
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not regret the painful exertion it has cost me to write it . '* At the age of twelve , he was ready for college , but , fearing his extreme youth , his father detained him some time at
Exeterwhere he had received his preparatory education under the care of Dr . Benjamin Abbot—and he was entered as a student at Cambridge in 1797 , nearly a year in advance *
It may seem strange to those who take their ideas of a university from the ' establishments of England and Germany that one so young should be fully prepared for admission into the oldest of
the seminaries in America , where the preliminary knowledge demanded is greater , than at any other in that country . But it is the genius of all the institutions in America *—arising , perhaps , in
a considerable degree , from the thinness of the population , which creates a premature demand for every species of talents—to bring forward young men very early into life ; and , though such
proficiency as we find in Mr . Buckminster is , no doubt , rare , it is no uncommon thing to find them closing their professional studies at an age when Europeans are just going to their universities .
On the entrance of Mr . Buck , minster at college , the same decided designation for peculiar excellence , which had so strongly impressed those who knew him in his early youth was at once seen
and acknowledged . His career in this institution was equally honourable to his moral principles and to his mental powers . Amidst the temptations inseparable from the place , he gave an example of the possible connection of the most
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Memoir of the late Rev . J . S . Buckminster . 5 < H
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1814, page 591, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2445/page/3/
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