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not otherwise. From my mother I could depend on £1 5 

 or £20 a year, if she live, toward college expenses, and 

 I could spend the long vacation at home. The £20 per 

 annum from my brother would suffice for clothes, &c,, so 

 that if I could procure £20 a year more, as you seem to 

 think I may, by the kindness of Mr Martyn I conceive 

 I might, with economy, be supported at college ; of this, 

 however, you are the best judge. 



You m^ay conceive how much I feel obliged by Mr 

 Martyn on this head, as well as to you, for your unweary- 

 ing exertions. Truly, friends have risen up to me in 

 quarters where I could not have expected them, and they 

 have been raised, as it were, by the finger of God. I 

 have reason, above all men, to be grateful to the Father 

 of all mercies for his loving kindness towards me ; surely 

 no one can have had more experience of the fatherly 

 concern with which God watches over, protects, and 

 succours his chosen seed, than I have had ; and surely 

 none could have less expected such a manifestation of 

 his grace, and none could have less merited its continu- 

 ance. 



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Tn pursuance of your iji junction, I shall lay aside 

 Grotius, and take up Cicero and Livy, or Tacitus. In 

 Greek, I must rest contented for the ensuing fourteen 

 days with the Testament : I shall then have conquered 

 the Gospels, and, if things go on smoothly, the Acts. I 

 shall then read Homer, and perhaps Plato's Phaedon, 

 which I lately picked up at a stall. My classical know- 

 ledge is very superficial ; it has very little depth or 

 solidity ; but I have really so small a portion of leisure, 

 that I wonder at the progress I do make. I believe I 

 must copy the old divines, in rising at four o'clock ; for 

 my evenings are so much taken up with visiting the 

 sick, and with young men who come for religious con- 

 versation, that there is but little time for study. 



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