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this city, by their manners, their talents, or their accomplish- 
ments. These advantages were not lost upon Mr Tyrter; 
and in this domestic school he early acquired that taste in life, 
or that sensibility to whatever is graceful or becoming in con- 
duct or in manners, which ever afterwards distinguished him, 
and which forms, perhaps, the most important advantage that 
the young derive from an early acquaintance with good so- 
ciety. 
In the year 1755, he was sent by his father to the High 
School, then under the direction of Mr Marnerson. In that 
school he remained five years, distinguished to his school-fel- 
lows by the gaiety and playfulness of his manners, and to his. 
teachers, by his industry and ability ; and, when he left it, he 
left it with the highest honours which the school ean bestow, 
as Dux of the Rector’s, or highest class. 
The High School, however, although then a respectable se- 
minary of education, had not yet acquired the eminence which 
it has since attained, by the zealous activity of the late Dr 
Apam, and, more recently, by the enlightened improvements 
of the present Rector, Mr Prrrans. To complete the classical 
education of his son, Mr Tyrer, therefore, determined to 
send him to one of the academies of England; and for this 
purpose he chose the Academy at Kensington, then under the 
care of Mr Expuinston, a man of learning and of worth, and 
distinguished by the friendship of Dr Samvet Jounson. It 
was in the year 1763, when he was fifteen years of age, that 
Mr Tytier went to Kensington. He was himself at that time 
conscious of the imperfection of his classical knowledge ; he felt 
that he had yet much to learn, particularly in the articles of 
Prosody and of Composition, and he entered the academy with 
the ambition of returning an accomplished scholar. The pro- 
gress of youth, and the instructions of his father, had now 
awakened 
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