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BOYHOOD. [Chap. I. 



fled with putting out one hand to shake : his loving nature 

 made him put out both." This loving nature was characteristic 

 of him through life. His manner was warm, as well as his heart. 

 He showed twice as much affection as most men, and made 

 " friends " where others made " acquaintances." 



When his father resumed the ministry, prudence required 

 that he should relinquish the boys' school, and in 1829 Mrs. 

 Carpenter and her daughters commenced a school for girls. 

 Considerable alterations were made in the house, and Philip 

 and his brothers resided in " the wing." For some little time 

 he was taught by his father; but in January, 1833, he joined 

 his brother Russell at the Bristol College, a proprietary insti- 

 tution founded in 1831 to supply the want of a superior day- 

 school in Bristol. (The Grammar School, which is now so 

 efficient, had sunk to nothing, under the management of the 

 old corporation.) The college occupied a large house, since 

 taken down to give place to the Jews' Synagogue, opposite to 

 the Red Lodge in Park Row, then the residence of the eminent 

 Dr. Prichard, whose sons were among the first students. The 

 celebrated geologist, Dean Conybeare, was the Visitor ; the 

 Principal was Dr. Jerrard, subsequently a Fellow and Examiner 

 of the University of London, to which this college was one of 

 the first to be affiliated. Philip was a very painstaking scholar, 

 and was much liked both by his teachers and class-fellows. 

 It was an advantage to him to be associated with youths of 

 various Denominations, and to have the stimulus of numbers. 

 The lectures were chiefly confined to classics and mathematics ; 

 but these lessons formed only part of his education. 



In later life he described himself as a " born teacher, a 

 naturalist by chance." His father had shown an early love of 

 science, and the elements of it were part of the regular in- 

 struction of his school, which he illustrated with a large and 

 costly collection of apparatus ; but, unless the structure of the 

 human frame be an exception (to teach which he had a skeleton 

 and various anatomical preparations), he had paid compara- 

 tively little attention to natural history. In 1823, however, the 

 Bristol Institution was opened, in the management cf which 



