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[From Dr JOHNSON's Life of Dr WATTS.]

«FEW books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his IMPROVEMENT OF THE MIND, of which the radical principles may indeed be found in Locke's Conduct of the Understanding; but they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. Whoever has the care of instructing others may be charged with cience in his duty if this book is not recommended.

As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over all his works under his direction it may be truly said, Theologie philosophia ancillatur, philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction; it is difficult to read a page without learning, or at least wishing to be better. The attention is caught by indirect instruction, and he that sat down only to reason is, on a sudden, compelled to pray.

"It was therefore with great propriety that, in 1728, he received from Edinburgh and Aberdeen an unsolicited diploma, by which he became a Doctor of Divinity. Academical onours would have more value, if they were always besowed with equal judgement.

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"Few men have left behind such purity o character, or such monuments of laborious piety. He has,rovided instruction for all ages, from those who are lispin their first lessons, to the enlightened readers of Malbranch and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning, and the science of the stars."

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