. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. tic ear-nestness, Would to Heaven I could express all that Ifeel, and all that I owe, and all that the country owes,to that name and family! John Phillips, your Founder,I knew well, — that is, as well as a boy of fourteen 104 THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. could be expected to know and realize the worth of aman of perhaps sixty. About the year 1785 I visitedhim at Exeter in his family, with my mother, who washis niece. I spent three or four days there, and par-took of Ms simple meals. I heard him at his family de-votions. I sha
. Familiar sketches of the Phillips Exeter Academy and surroundings. tic ear-nestness, Would to Heaven I could express all that Ifeel, and all that I owe, and all that the country owes,to that name and family! John Phillips, your Founder,I knew well, — that is, as well as a boy of fourteen 104 THE PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY. could be expected to know and realize the worth of aman of perhaps sixty. About the year 1785 I visitedhim at Exeter in his family, with my mother, who washis niece. I spent three or four days there, and par-took of Ms simple meals. I heard him at his family de-votions. I shall never forget the patriarchal sweetnessof his countenance, or tlie somewhat stern, yet not un-attractive manner, in which he greeted and had an austere faith, softened by natural tempera-ment and inherent kindliness of spirit. I rejoice thatthe spirit of his benevolence still lives and breathesin the spot he selected for its abode, and that it bearsthe Phillips name upward from its foundation to itsheight. [Fac-simile of the Founders handwriting.]. CHAPTER VI. THE BUILDINGS. Original Buildin^g. — Second Academy Building. —New Building.—Abbot Hall. — Gorham Hall.— Portraits and Busts. THHE original schoolhouse, erected in the autumnof 1781, stood on the rise of ground, a few rodswest of Tan Lane, since named Academy land is now owned by the Julian heirs. It was amodest frame building, and will be chiefly rememberedas the one in which the first Latin lesson was recited,and in which Dr. Abbot began his ^ards this building was moved to the Kingstonroad, about a mile away, where, remodelled into a farm-house, it was for many years occupied by John T. Gor-don, Esq. Some years ago, in re-laying the floor of thelong parlor, the workmen discovered marks of the oldbenches. It is now oAvned by the estate of the lateBenjamin Merrill, and occupied by Mr. James most of the New Hampshire schoolhouses of thatperiod, it was d
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