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already mentioned, upon ‘the Works of 
Ariftuphanes, ‘Reriophen Ephefius, He- 
fychius, and “Fhomas “Atticifta. “He 
wrote many obfervstions on the Works of 
the different Athenian oraters,' of ‘Theo- 
cvitus, \Apojlosius Riodius, Harpocra- 
tion, Properrias, Manijius, Valerius Flac- 
cus, andcthers» “‘Indeéd, meft of tite co 
pies of thevGr ek and Latin clafiies ‘in His | 
libiary were; at’ his death; full of ‘emen- 
datory-and in terpretative marginal hates, 
written with his own’ hand. 
His manners were modeft dnd fentle.— 
He avoided literdi'y difputes send never 
made an ofteritatious difplay of his learn* 
ing. His common converfation was fas 
tural, eafy, unfudied, ‘and yet of furh re- 
maikable ’corresifefs “and propriety in 
both fenfe and language, that ev: ry word 
of vir mighr have appéared to advantage in 
print “Vhere ran‘throvgh it a vein of 
unaffe&ted “and inoffenhve wit and plea- 
fantry.| “His fociety was much ccurted 
by the Bestincks, and other eminent per- 
fons of the firft tami'ies in’ Holland.— 
He was'a lover of @neat’ fimplicity. in his 
drefs, hes hove; and his’ whole habits of 
living He*was' mall his words and 2e- 
tions a perfon cf fingular prudence and 
Gilcrerions | He was not fanguine in hope, 
haftyot faith, ‘or unevarded j in {peech.— 
He ‘was flow‘ arid "cautious ‘in’ re! falving, 
‘ut eady “in adherence to! thole  folu- 
tions which He had upon mature delibe era. 
fio taken. | He was capablé cf ex'raor: 
dinary fortinide.” At Franeker,’ juft as 
two perfors of tank had come'to his houfe 
on'a cheartul, friendly’ vifit for ‘a couple 
6f ‘days, id a néws, that his. fon 
James, whem he tenderly Idved, had pe» 
yithed ‘at fea; he’ ‘had the fi: mhefs ‘to hide 
this forrow ' from his farnily, and entertain 
his ¢guetis, with his accuitonied chear sity eae 
‘nefs, til ‘their’ vifif'was at’ an end. He | 
‘then gave a lodfe to the tendérnefs of bis 
heart, aed ‘his affeQion as a faiher.— 
‘He éiid on the 7th’ of Apu, 
the eighty- Hivend year of | his age, “ 
A bricf, MEMOIR of ihe REV. 
“MOLE. 
PE OMES 
7 HE tre spe e charadter whoreihme | 
ftands above, is one that defrrvesito - 
Abe prdferved in the /alticle of neg Ged 
biography ;. theugh .prebably’ it-weuld 
shave foon funk inte total oblivion, had 
it mot. been. brought’ foiwards in’ Dr, ‘ 
Kivpis’s Life of Dr, Lardner. “The 
ammen-i: no made of MreMole in “that/in- 
ftru€tive piece, mult terve as the bafis ‘of *~ 
this Memoit 5 but;. aiter Ags ‘the: icanti- 
cv 
Memoir of the Rev. ‘Thomas Mole.” 
1766, in 
~and > 
ne's of the information ‘Is to be resret 
ted. = 7 
The writer of this has reafon to fippofe 
that Mr. Mole was one of thofe who were 
ornaments to the academical feminary un ’ 
@er Mr. Jones, of Tewkefbury ; where 
Butler; Secker, and Chandler, laid 2a 
foundation of that eminence in learning 
by which’ tWeir names were’ eee 
dikinguithed. ‘His firft fettlement, as far * 
as our acquaintance. withr his’ hiftory oes, * 
was at Uxbridée,” where he fucteeded, ii’ 
1725, the Rev. James Waters.” His refi-* 
Salk here’was a a fhort Curation 3° for ’ 
#728, September 2 29; he took leave of - 
ae congregation there jn‘a judicious’ and: 
inrerefting farewel-difcourfe on 2 Cor. 
xilie, ‘iT. 2nd removed to Rotherhithe, to- 
fillup the piftofal conneétion left vacant 
by the death of the Rev. John Ratcliffe,~ 
on ‘the 16th of the preceding February.—= - 
‘He had net been Jong fettled there before 
‘he Again appeared from the prefs in a cor- 
reé and ‘critical Difcourfe’on “* the Cha- 
racter and Office of St. Peter,” from Maté. 
xvi.18, 19, delivered in that place on the. 
sth of November in the’ fame year.—= 
This was’ foon féllowed “by the publica- 
fidnicf another Sermon, entitled, “© The 
Hope of Chriftians, a Means of roderats 
ing "thet Sortows for'the Dead,"* from 4, 
Theff. iv. 13, 14, delivered ‘at’ Rother- 
hithe 27th July, 1729, on cccafiow of the 
death of “John Wall, Efq. in his 47th 
“year—the ¢ gentleman to whom, as High 
Shertf of the County of Surrey, the pre- 
‘ceding Difcourfe was addrefled.. So foon, 
‘alas! do the“ biufhing honours” of Ra | 
“fade” away! * 
‘Mr. Mole,’ not Jong after, viz. in Ae 
'yeats 1732. ‘and 1733, madea ve als 
ing figure in the difcuffion of the queftions 
“concerning the’ foundation of virtue, ‘and 
“came forth’ as ‘an able advocate in the 
fcheine efpoufed’ by Dr. Samuel’ Clarke,. 
in a controverfy with the Rev, and Jearn< 
ed Dr. Wright, ina Sermon on ‘¢ the 
Foundation of moral Virtue,” from Pfaln, 
xi. 7. with a Preface’ to it ‘contain 
MriQures én the aficitions of Dr. Wright, 
Lata the will of God the foundation 
rule of ‘virtué—and in/a Tra in 
which He reconfidéred anddefended’ the 
principle. ‘of the eternal ‘difference of 
things, | iff anfwer to Dr. Wright's res 
marks. Mr. Mole: ‘fupported™ his own 
views on the queltion ** witita firength 
‘of reafon (ays. ‘Dr. KS ‘ppis,) far faperior 
to that: of’ his* antagonift.” Another 
«Sih 
* Biographia Britannica, 2d ed. Lite. ‘of 
Clarke, p: 608. aeitiny : 
controvelh ¥ 
