the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians

[381] he treated his subject; which were naturally followed by remarks on the species of composition, whether historical, oratorical, or philosophical, if prose, or, if poetry, epic, dramatic, lyric, satirical, &c. These preliminaries dispatched, he made the students read successively, paragraph by paragraph, under his correction, the author under consideration, and pointed out the beauties, cleared up the difficulties, and illustrated the scope and tendency of the argument, with uncommon clearness and precision. His choice of books, also, was generally very judicious: avoiding those authors that are usually read at schools, he rather chose to lead them to an acquaintance with such as might not otherwise be likely to fall in their way; and of these he preferred those which bore some relation to the leading objects of their other studies. In history, for instance, he chose such portions of Herodotus as might illustrate those parts of the Old Testament which were connected with Assyria and Egypt; the fine funeral orations of Thucydides, Plato, and Lysias; the philosophical and ethical treatises of Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Marcus Antoninus, and Maximus Tyrius, with Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, and Longinus. When there were several young men designed for the law, he more than once read with them Justinian's Institutes. In reading the ancient poets, his extensive acquaintance with modern poetry enabled him to enliven his lectures with parallel passages; and his fine taste led him to dwell with peculiar delight on those passages of either ancient or modern poets which appeared most striking for noble sentiments or just reflections. In reading the philosophical