8 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



change his sentiments, and put him into a better 

 way of thinking, which, in his riper years, he 

 constantly pursued, without any tincture or re- 

 mains of the first prejudices of education. 



Whilst he continued at Bradford school, his 

 father had him instructed in writing short-hand, 

 that he might take down in notes the preach- 

 ments of those times ; and he made him every 

 Sunday, in the evening, repeat to the family 

 from his short-hand copy, all that had been 

 delivered that day in the congregation. It may 

 readily be guessed what a tedious task this was. 

 However, it was attended with an advantage 

 which he valued ever after, viz. a perfect know- 

 ledge and command of the cypher, of which he 

 sufficiently experienced the benefit when he be- 

 came a preacher himself. 



He never was at any other school than Brad- 

 ford ; — either his natural genius, or his industry, 

 or both, made amends for all deficiencies of that 

 school, and supplied the place of a more advan- 

 tageous education. 



It is certain that he had made such a progress 

 in school learning, at fifteen years of age, that 

 his father was determined to complete his edu- 

 cation, and send him directly to the University, 

 and to maintain him there seven years, and 

 that not in a penurious way, which might cramp 

 his studies, but with as liberal a hand as he 



