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possessed with the highest and noblest sense of divine 

 tilings that ever I saw in any man. lie had no regard 

 to his person, unless it was to mortify it by a constant 

 low diet, that was like a perpetual fast. He had aeon- 

 tempt botli of wealth and reputation. He seemed to 

 have the lowest thoughts of himself possible, and to 

 desire that all other persons should think as meanly of 

 him as he did himself. He bore all sorts of ill usage. 

 and reproach like a man that took pleasure in it. He 

 had so subdued the natural heat of his temper, that in 

 a great variety of accidents, and in a course of twenty- 

 two years intimate conversation with him, I never ob- 

 served the least sign of passion but upon one single oc- 

 casion. He brought himself into so composed a gravi- 

 ty, that I never saw him laugh, and but seldom smile. 

 And he kept himself in such a constant recollection, 

 that I do not remember that ever I heard him say one 

 idle word. There was a visible'tendency in all he 

 said to raise his own mind, find those he conversed 

 with, to serious reflections : he seemed to be in a per- 

 petual meditation. And, though the whole course of 

 his life was strict and ascetical, yet he had nothing of 

 the sourness of temper that generally possesses men of 

 that sort. His thoughts were lively ; oft out of the 

 way and surprising, yet just and genuine. And he had 

 laid together in his memory the greatest treasure of the 

 best and wisest of all the ancient sayings of the heathens 

 as well as Christians, that I have ever known any man 

 master of; and he used them in the aptest manner pos- 

 sible." His sermons are full of sublime and Christian 

 sentiments ; his style combines, in a wonderful man- 

 ner, a majestic force with a beautiful simplicity ; and 

 his pronunciation as a preacher is said to have been at 

 once grave and graceful. His extreme modesty render- 

 ed him inexorable to all the intreaties of his friends to 

 publish any of his writings during his life; but he was 

 very careful in the preparation of his discourses ; and 

 .many of his works have been recovered since his death. 

 The chief of those which have been published are, a 

 volume of sermons, with an exposition of the Creed, 

 Lord's Prayer, and Decalogue ; an exposition of the 

 first epistle of Peter ; meditations on certain psalms, ori- 

 ginally in Latin ; theological prelections in the same 

 language ; a few lectures and letters. See Bishop Bur- 

 net's History of his own Times; life of Leighton pre- 

 fixed to his volume of Sermons ; and preface to his Ex- 

 position of Peter, by Dr. Doddridge. (9) 



LEIGHTON BUZZARD, or BEAUDESERT, is a con- 

 siderable market-town of England, in the county of 

 Bedford. It is situated on the river Lyssel, or Ouzel, 

 and consists of one large street, crossed at right angles 

 by two smaller ones. The principal piece of antiquity 

 in the town, is its beautiful pentangular cross. It is 

 38 feet high, and consists of two stories. It is built of 

 stone, and situated in an open area in the market-place, 

 'and is supposed to have been erected about the begin- 

 ning of the fourteenth century. The church is a large 

 structure, and has a square tower surmounted with a 

 spire 193 feet high. The Grand Junction Canal passes 

 on the west side of it, and within a furlong of the town, 

 and is capable of carrying vessels of 80 tons. About 

 half a mile from the town are the remains of a Roman 

 encampment. The population of the parish, in 1811, 

 was 408 houses, 509 families, 187 families employed in 

 trade and manufactures, and 2114 inhabitants. See 

 Britton's Architectural Anliqtiities of Great Britain, 

 vol. i. ; Lyson's Magna Britannia, vol. i. ; and Beau- 

 ties of England and Wales, vol i. p. 36. 



LEINSTER. See IHELAND, Vol. XII. p. 266, &c. 



LEIPSICK, or LEIPZIG, is a city of Misnia, in Up- 



per Saxony, and situated on the Pleissc, in the fertile 

 pi nin between the rivers Sa;ilp and Mulda. The town 

 is neat and regularly built, arid is about 89.54 paces in 

 circumference. The suburbs are extensive, and consist. 

 of good buildings and gardens, and is separated from 

 the town by a fine walk of lime trees, which runs round 

 the town. The Grand Place is large, and contains many 

 excellent houses. The citadel, called Pleissenbourg, 

 from its being situated on the Pleisse, is a place of great 

 strength. It is erected after the model of the ci-devant 

 citadel of Milan. It contains a moat, finished in 1 752 ; 

 and in its Roman Catholic chapel there is a monument 

 to Jablonowsky ; and on one of its towers is the obser- 

 vatory. Leipsick contains eight parisli churches for 

 Lutherans, and one for Calvinists. The church of St. 

 Thomas has a fine organ, and its tower is 200 feet high. 

 The exchange is a.good building, and the roof of its 

 hall is well finished. The other remarkable buildings 

 and objects of curiosity at Leipsick, are the Maison Du- 

 four, which is one of the finest edifices in Leipsick ; the 

 theatre ; the manege ; the Hotel de Ville, built in 1C56' ; 

 the house and the court of Auerbuch, built by the phy- 

 sician Strohmer ; the auditory of M. Plattner ; the con- 

 cert room at the old assembly ; the church of St. Ni- 

 cholas; the college of princes; the Paulinum, a vast 

 and ancient edifice, in the garden of which is a monu- 

 ment to Gellert ; the hospital of St. George ; the Laza- 

 retto, and the clinical institution ; the esplanade, with 

 a statue of the reigning king; the monument of Gellert 

 in the church of St. John, and his tomb in the public 

 cemetery. 



The principal literary and useful establishments in 

 Leipsick, are the university, which was founded in 

 1 109, and has always maintained its celebrity as a place 

 of learning, and which has six handsome colleges be- 

 longing to it; the two public schools ; the Academy of 

 Painting and Design ; the Economical Society ; the 

 Society of the Sciences of Belles Lettres, founded by 

 Princo, Jablonowski ; the Collegium Philo biblicum ; the 

 Institution for the Dumb and Deaf; the Intclligeiiz 

 Comploir, with its numerous collections'of machines and 

 models ; the Museum of Beygang, an excellent institu- 

 tion, which deserves the notice of travellers. 



The chief collections and cabinets, are the libraries 

 of the city, the university, and the churches and schools 

 of St. Nicholas and St. Thomas; the cabinets of paint- 

 ing of M. M. Richter and Stieglitz ; the cabinet of na- 

 tural history of Link ; the physical cabinet of M. Tau- 

 ber, and the mineralogical cabinet of M. Hansen and 

 M. Geissler. 



Leipsick is a place of considerable trade, and posses- 

 ses some important mercantile privileges. Three great 

 fairs are held annually ; at the beginning of the year, 

 Easter, and Michaelmas, which continue during a fort- 

 night each, and are frequented by foreigners from all 

 parts of Europe, and even from Asia. The Bohemians 

 bring all kinds of glass ware, linens, &c. ; the Silesiang 

 bring linens ; the Poles leather, wax, and wool ; the 

 Prussians and Pomeranians, woollen and silken stuffs ; 

 the Nurembergers toys ; the Swabians linens, and gold 

 and silver articles ; the Austrians and Hungarians lea- 

 ther, wines and dye stuffs ; the Swiss, woollen, silken, 

 and linen stuffs ; the Russians, leather, hemp, and flax ; 

 the Italians silk ; the French lace and milinery ; and 

 the English, Dutch, and Hamburgers, colonial produce 

 and British manufactured goods. 



The general amount of the trade carried on at these 

 fairs, has been estimated at twenty millions of rix-dol- 

 lars per annum. The almanac of Leipsick contains the 

 names and addresses of more than 800 foreign mer- 



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