The Village Curate: And Other Poems; Including Some Pieces Now First Published (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The Rev. James hurdis was born at Bishop stone in the county Of Sussex, in the year 1763. He was the third child, and only son, Of James Hurdis, Gent. By his second wife, whom he mar ried in the year 1759. His father dying, and leaving his mother in no affluent circumstances, with seven children, our Author was at her ex pense sent to school in the city of Chichester, at the age of eight years, first under the tuition of the Rev. Richard Tireman, an instructor whom he sincerely respected and afterwards under the Rev. John Atkinson, for whose memory and lite rary abilities he had the highest veneration. And as a mark Of Mr. Atkinson's esteem for his pupil, he, bequeathed to him at his death a handsome legacy of valuable books. Here our Author also experienced the protection of his affectionate.

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