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Show Where De Culncey Went to Church. St. Peter's chinch, Manchester, Kng-land, Kng-land, which Is short!) to bo pulled down, Is the church which Do Qulncoy attended as a lad and to which thoro aro some "utcitalulug leferences In "The C. nylons of an Opium Kator." The first rector was IJe Qulncey's tutor, and he possessed apparently a stock of 330 hcimons which tho pupil confessed bc-.iuie to lit -i "a real Instrument In-strument of Improvement." He only heard half of them, because ho attended at-tended only the moinlng services; but he says "Tlne same 3S0 2 sermons (lasting on! through 10 mlnulos each) for me became n perfect palaestra palaes-tra of Intellectual gymnastics, far bother bot-her suited to my childish weaknoss than could Ivi been tho sermons of Isaac Harrow or Jeremy Taylor." Do Qulncey glvs his Impiesslous of tho opening of 'e church, which took place when N was In his tenth year. That Is now 1 '1 cars ago. |