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THE
LIFE
of
JOHN POTTER, D.D.
Dr.MohiV Potter was born at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, about the
year 1674. He was the son of Mr. Thomas Potter, a linen-draper
in that place. Being put to school there, he made an uncommon
progress in his studies. At the age of fourteen, he went to Oxford,
and entered a student of University College; and in 1693, he took
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His attention had been particularly
turned towards the Greek language, and he soon gave a convincing
proof that his success was equal to the diligence with which he pro-
secuted it. In his nineteenth year, he published an edition of Plu-
tarch's treatise De Audiendis Poetis, with the oration of Basil the
Great, De Legendis Grcecomm Libris, with various readings and
notes, Oxford, 1694, 8vo. This publication met with a very favour-
able reception, and gave the public just grounds to expect some
greater undertaking, from an author who, at such an early period of
life, had so successfully begun his literary career ; and, in this expec-
tation they were not disappointed.
He had already been engaged in an edition of Lycophron ; but
some difficulties having occurred, which prevented him from pro-
ceeding in it, he finished, in the mean time, the two short treatises of
Plutarch and Basil, to serve as a kind of introduction to the study of
Lycophron, as well as of the other Greek poets. This work, he in-
forms us in the preface, was undertaken by the advice of Arthur
Charlett, D. D. master of University College, a great friend and pa-
tron of learning. The following year he was chosen Fellow of Lin-
coln College, and, proceeding Master of Arts, took pupils, and went
into orders.
After the publication of Plutarch and Basil, he resumed the work
which he had formerly begun, and, in 1697, completed a very beau-
LIFE
of
JOHN POTTER, D.D.
Dr.MohiV Potter was born at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, about the
year 1674. He was the son of Mr. Thomas Potter, a linen-draper
in that place. Being put to school there, he made an uncommon
progress in his studies. At the age of fourteen, he went to Oxford,
and entered a student of University College; and in 1693, he took
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. His attention had been particularly
turned towards the Greek language, and he soon gave a convincing
proof that his success was equal to the diligence with which he pro-
secuted it. In his nineteenth year, he published an edition of Plu-
tarch's treatise De Audiendis Poetis, with the oration of Basil the
Great, De Legendis Grcecomm Libris, with various readings and
notes, Oxford, 1694, 8vo. This publication met with a very favour-
able reception, and gave the public just grounds to expect some
greater undertaking, from an author who, at such an early period of
life, had so successfully begun his literary career ; and, in this expec-
tation they were not disappointed.
He had already been engaged in an edition of Lycophron ; but
some difficulties having occurred, which prevented him from pro-
ceeding in it, he finished, in the mean time, the two short treatises of
Plutarch and Basil, to serve as a kind of introduction to the study of
Lycophron, as well as of the other Greek poets. This work, he in-
forms us in the preface, was undertaken by the advice of Arthur
Charlett, D. D. master of University College, a great friend and pa-
tron of learning. The following year he was chosen Fellow of Lin-
coln College, and, proceeding Master of Arts, took pupils, and went
into orders.
After the publication of Plutarch and Basil, he resumed the work
which he had formerly begun, and, in 1697, completed a very beau-