their feelings, which, on all occasions, he discovered in his deportment towards those students who devoted themselves to their duty, and were obedient to the laws; the clearness, comprehension, and force of style which he displayed as an instructer to his class; the manly and impressive eloquence which he exhibited on all occasions when he appeared in the pulpit, rendered him the pride and ornament of the institution. About this time he published one volume of sermons, which was well received both in his own and foreign countries.

In the year 1812, his infirmities had so rapidly increased, he found himself unable to attend to his duties in college, and at the next commencement resigned his presidency. From this period, although only in his sixty-second year, the paralytic strokes with which he had been visited, had so far weakened his constitution, as to render him utterly incapable of his ordinary exertions of body or mind. Even in this enfeebled state, however, his natural ardour and activity in the prosecution of learning still continued. He now spent a portion of his time in correcting his works, and preparing for the press, that system of moral philosophy, which for more than twenty years he had delivered to the classes, and which is now ranked among the best works extant.

In the spring of 1819, his strength visibly failed. The prospect of a speedy dissolution he now surveyed as inevitable; and with a mind conscious of the most unsullied purity and uprightness of intention, he seemed to await, in unruffled tranquillity, the summons of his heavenly Father, that should transport him to a better world. He appeared in the language of the poet:

To walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore,
Of that vast ocean he must sail so soon.

On the 21st August, 1819, without a struggle, and conversing with his family to the last, and

exhibiting entire composure and resignation, did this eminent man leave his transitory abode on earth, for one eternal in the heavens.

Dr. Smith as a philosopher, has high claims and does honour to his country. His work on moral philosophy is among the first and best productions of its kind in the possession of the literary world, and is liable to fewer objections than any other. The work, however, upon which, if he had written no other, he might found a high and well merited reputation as a philosopher, is that upon the variety of figure and complexion in the human species, which is among the first and best of his productions. It is indisputably a master-piece of philosophical writing, and such as would have done honour to any man that ever lived. His object in this treatise is to show that all that great variety exhibited among our race in their stature, complexion, and figure, may be explained from the united action of climate, the state of society, and manner of living. (As a writer, he is entitled to a very distinguished rank. He had a mind which was capable of comprehending the abstruse and penetrating into the profound, but which following its natural impulses, chose rather to devote himself to the acquisition of what is elegant and agreeable in science and literature. He was versed in the Latin, Greek, French, and Hebrew languages; and his style of writing is remarkably perspicuous, full, flowing, polished, and elegant.

In all his works we discover great justness and profoundness of observation, extensive acquaintance with science and literature, together with a liberal and philosophical cast of thinking. (His principles of natural and revealed religion, sermons, and his lectures upon the evidences of christianity, are works which comprise within a small compass, a great variety of theological learning and useful and interesting disquisition, expressed in a language at once neat and elegant,

while his doctrines are recommended by profound reflections and happy illustrations. As a pulpit orator he would have done honour to any age or nation. There was a dignity, and even majesty, in his person and appearance in the pulpit, as well as in his conceptions and style of speaking, which excited involuntary respect, and commanded the most unremitted attention. Adorned by his genius, the pulpit was converted into a fountain at once of light to illuminate the understanding of his hearers, and of heat, to warm and fructify their hearts. His voice was clear, full, and harmonious, and when he was more than usually excited by passion, every feature spoke, and that fine expressive eye which nature had given him, became lighted up with a fire which penetrated every heart. /

SHIPPEN, WILLIAM, M. D. F. R. S. a learned physician and anatomist, was born in the city of Philadelphia, about the year 1736. Soon after receiving the honours of Princeton college, he commenced the study of medicine, and at the age of twenty-one, he embarked for Europe, and prosecuted his studies with the celebrated John Hunter. He afterwards went to Edinburgh, where he published his thesis, De placenta, cum utero nexu, and was admitted to the degree of doctor of medicine. He then visited France, and returned home in 1762, and commenced the practice of midwifery, and teaching of anatomy by dissection.

On the establishment of the medical school in Philadelphia, he was unanimously called to fill the professorship of anatomy and surgery in that institution.

About this period, he was very active in forming the American Philosophical Society, and during the

revolutionary war he took charge of all the journals and original papers.

In 1776, he was appointed director-general of the medical department of the American army. In 1781, he resigned this office to resume his former pursuits.

In the year 1798, he was bereaved of an only son, which so afflicted him for several years, that he seldom attended to his duties; and the only studies which he afterwards pursued were of a religious

nature.

In the year 1805, his spirits appeared again to revive, and in the winter of 1807, he delivered the introductory lecture, though very infirm, and during the same course, he also lectured on midwifery. He afterwards removed to Germantown. He died July 11, 1808.

STODDARD, SOLOMON, pastor of the church of Northampton, Massachusetts, has always been considered as one of the greatest divines of New-England. He was born in Boston, in 1643; and was graduated at Harvard college in 1662. He was afterwards appointed a fellow. His health having been impaired by a close application to his studies, he went to Barbadoes, as chaplain to governor Serle, and preached with great acceptance to the dissenters on that island near two years. After his return, being ordained September 11, 1672, as successor to Mr. Mather, at Northampton, he continued in that place till his death, February 11, 1729, in the eighty-sixth year of his age. His colleague, the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, survived him.

Mr. Stoddard was a learned man, well versed in religious controversies, and himself an acute disputant.

As a preacher, his discourses were plain, experimental, searching, and argumentative. He was strictly Calvinistical in his opinions upon doctrinal points, but more liberal than other divines of this country upon points of church discipline and government.

His works are numerous, and many of them have passed through several editions.

His work, entitled "The Safety of appearing at the Judgment in the Righteousness of Christ," was re-published at Edinburgh, 8vo. 1792, with a recommendatory preface by Dr. Erskine.

STILES, EZRA, DD. president of Yale college, was born December 15, 1727. He entered Yale college in 1742, and was distinguished among the students for his bright genius, his intellectual accomplishments, his moral virtues, and the suavity of his manners.

In 1746, he graduated, and was esteemed one of the greatest scholars it had ever produced. He first commenced his course of life with the study and practice of the law: he afterwards thought it his duty to preach the gospel; and settled at Newport, as pastor of the second congregational church, where he continued from 1755, to the year 1776.

In 1778, he was chosen president of Yale college, and continued in this station till his death, May 12, 1795, in the sixty-eighth year of his age

(Dr. Stiles was one of the most learned men of whom this country can boast. He had a thorough knowledge of the Hebrew, Greek, French, Latin, Samaritan, Chaldee, Syriac, and Arabic, and had made some considerable progress in the Coptic and Persic languages.