Celebrities I Have Known (V. 1)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCHOLASTIC. DR. DODD. CHAPTER III. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL IN BYGONE DATS?"THE NEW BO?"?A BEOSURE? PRACTICAL JOKES?F AGGING?MY MASTER?OLD TOTHILL FIELDS?A VISIT TO RICHARD AND MISS HUBBERT? "SLENDER BILLY"?A TREACHEROUS FRIEND? REPRIMANDED BY DOCTOR DODD?SPORT FEOM WESTMINSTER?THE EASTER MONDAY EPPING HUNT. " Ye scenes of my childhood, whose loved recollection Embitters the present, compared with the past; Where science first dawn'd on the powers of reflection, And friendships were form'd, too romantic to last; " Where fancy yet joys to trace the resemblance Of comrades in friendship and mischief allied; How welcome to me your ne'er fading remembrance, Which rests in the bosom, though hope is denied ! " Again I revisit the fields where we sported, The stream where we swam, and the spot where we fought, The school where, loud warn'd by the bell, we resorted, To pore o'er the precepts by pedagogues taught." Bykon. AMONG the celebrities of my early days was Doctor Dodd, familiarly called " Jemmy Dodd," at that time tutor at Mrs. Packharness's? " Old Mother Pack's"?Great Dean's Yard, West- DR. DODD. 31 minster. Here I am reminded of that melancholy circumstance which occurred in 1777, and deprived the inhabitants of London of one of the greatest orators in the cause of benevolence they had ever possessed, I allude to the ignominious death of Lord Chesterfield's tutor, the unfortunate Dr. Dodd, whose conduct cannot but be allowed to have been inconsistent beyond parallel; a teacher of the most exalted benevolence, one who practised it to the degree he taught; and yet a luxurious spendthrift, and a violator of the penal laws of his country, to support unjustifiable extravagance and splendour of living. When we reflect on the large sums of money his exertions...

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