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SELECT

BRITISH DIVINES.

VOL. I.

Nos. I. AND II.

CONTAINING

BEVERIDGE'S

PRIVATE THOUGHTS.

EDITED

BY THE REV. C. BRADLEY.

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1821.

UPON

RELIGION

AND

A CHRISTIAN LIFE.

BY

WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D. D.

BISHOP OF ST. ASAPH.

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all other Booksellers.

1821.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

OF

BISHOP BEVERIDGE.

WILLIAM BEVERIDGE was born at Barrow in Leicestershire, in the year 1636. His grandfather and father had been successively vicars of that place, and, after them, his brother. On the twenty-fourth of May, 1653, he became a member of St. John's College, Cambridge, where we find him distinguishing himself by those qualities, which are the certain indications of a solid and superior mind, and the forerunners of usefulness and honor. His conduct was exemplary; his piety unobtrusive, but lively and decided; his application to study unceasing. So great indeed was the assiduity, with which he applied himself to the study of the oriental languages, that at eigliteen years of age he wrote a "Treatise of the excellency and use of the Oriental Tongues, especially the Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan; with a Syriac Grammar;" which treatise he published about two years afterwards.