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* f their own imagination , of which there are no arcketypes . " ( p , 105 . ) His wit has rarely an easy and graceful air : occasionally , however , he is not a little whimsical and diverting :
a 1 had no sooner evoked the name of Shakespear from the rotten monument of his former editions , than a crew of strange devils , and more grotesque than any of those he laughs at in the old farees , came chattering , mewing and grinning round about me . ** ( p . 13 . ) Again :
cc Poof Job ! It was his eternal fate to be persecuted by his friend * . His three comforters passed sentence of condemnation upon him , and he has been executing in effig ie ever since . He was first bound to the stake by a long catena
of Greek fathers ; then tortured by Pineda ; then strangled by Caryl , and afterwards cut up by Wesley , and anatomized by Garnet . Pray don ' t reckon me among his hangmen . I only acted the tender pait of his wife * and was for makine short work with him . But'he
was ordained , by a fate like that of Prometheus , to lie still upon hi 3 dunghill , arid have his brains sucked out by ewls . " ( pp . ao , 30 . } Of those who , had the misfortune to differ from-him . War burton can never express himself in
terms of decency : they are asses , dunces . ^ wretches . Concerning one of them he says , " No Grubstreet garret ever whclpt so stupendous a dunce / ' ( p . i 2 £ . ) concerning others , that " they are
centimes duller and prouder , than a damned poet / ' ( p . 41 . ) A divine who preaches against him at St . James ' s , is an important blockhead , ( p . SS . ) Dr . Byrom is not malevolent but mad , ( p . 98 . ) Hume he wishes to advance to the pillory , ( p . J 4 <) Wake and Kfcn-Jiettare two of the ihillobt fellows
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in the world , ( p . 314 . ) J or tin possesses rancour of heart , ( p . S / O . ) Evanson is a conceited innovator , ( p . 467 . ) ( So little did our bishop know himself !) Priestley is a wretched fellow . Dr . 13 * who answers Priestley , is an ass , ( p . 442- ) And Jackson ( of Itossington ) is a wretch , who " has spent
his days in the republic of letters * just as your vagabonds do in the streets of London , in one unvaried course of begging , railing , and stealing . " Xv * Hf «) should tire readers and
We our ourselves were we to cull more o £ these flowers of the Warburtoniaa rhetoric . Let us turn from the 64 eminent prelate 5 ' to his confidential friend and correspondent . They whose situations either
gave them intimate access to Bish * op-Hurd , or led them to occasional intercourse with him , well know that he conciliated the regard of his clergy , neighbours and dependents , by uniform benevolence of conduct . He excelled ,
we think , as a critic and-a polite writer , rather than as a divine ; and in point of vigour and com . prehension of mijid , he fell below his celebrated patron , who , on the other hand , was greatly his inferior in more important and attractive qualifications . Without the encouragement of Wai burton , Hurd would scarcely have been known to the world in the
character of a theblogiah ; and k is observable that , elegant and useful a « s are the generality ; of his practical sermons , he is seldom happy in his explanations of texts of Scripture * or in las vindication of established doctrines .
* Perhaps . an opportunity n 2 a 7 . be afford *^ tts , of jtt 9 tifjriijg this remark , so far at least as regar 4 | 5 hid discourse op Gbrht * s numbing the disciples' fert \ a transaction which we once heard a respectable dissenting minister expound , after rfie Bishop ' s example , as * j ( f iW-of what is populsyrly styled the atsnement f
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Review . —Warburton * s Letter ^ . 3 $ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1809, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1738/page/39/
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