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Pr . Parr . —Extract from Mr . Field ' s " Historical and descriptive ;} <> - . count of the Town and Castle of Warwick , and of the nei g hbouring-Towns and tillages within the Circuit of Ten Milesr—?^ . 364 , &e .
" TTTATTON is a small village , but JLJL highly distinguished as the chosen residence , for so many pa ^ t years , of one of the greatest scholars and most enlightened men of the present age . It is hardly necessary to subjoin the name of the Rev . Dr . Parr , of whom it still remains to be regretted , that no literary work has yet proceeded from his pen * worthy to
trans-? " Yet the following , it must be gratefully acknowledged , 5 s no scanty list of works , with which the learned Doctor has already favoured the public . A Sermon on Education , preached at Norwich . A Sermon called Phileleutberos Norfblci ^
ensis , which the writer is said to consider as his best convpositioa . A second and much larger Discourse on Education , with copious notes * These were published during his residence at Norwich . " Since his residence a £ Hatton , he has published a Spital Sermon , which , with the
notes , would form a common 8 vo . volume . A Fast Sermon . A Letter'from Irenopolis to the inhabitants of Eleutheroffolis . A Letter to a neighbouring clergyman , in which a variety of topics , literary and political are discussed . A yet larger work , addressed to a Co-Editor , hi which he vindicates his
honour from unjust aspersion ,, aud deli- * vers his opinion upon many interesting topics of literature and criticism . Tracts of Warburton and a Warburtonian , of which the preface and dedication abound with proofs of his erudition , taste and wit and of which the composition has
been much admired . A Latin preface to some learned tracts of Bfcllendenus . Characters of Charles James Fox , 2 volfc . 8 vo .,, of which the first volume closed with a portrait of that greatest of modern statesmen , pleasingly and powerfully de-r linetted by the Editor himself ; m ^ l the second , consisti n g wholly of notes , eoii &
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niit u . name of so much celebrity ; with ajl its due honour , to a distant posterity The parspaage house , where , in studious and dignified retirement , be has so long resided , is a cominodiqus dwellings and contains one noble
room , built by himself , richly fur . nished , with an extensive and valuable library , in which a fine collection of all the great works in the department of verbal criticism , classical literature and theology , hold a pre-eminent sta ~
uon . ** At a small distance from the parsonage house is the pleasing village church , in which this very learned divine performs clerical duty with all the attentive regularity , and all the
solicitous care ot the most exemplary parish , priest . The interior is embellished , chiefly by his taste and liberality , with every suitable decoration , especially in the beautiful painted glass with which the windows are adorned . Of the numerous
monumental inscriptions suspended round the walls , several are proved by their classical purity and elegance to be the production of his pen ; and of these , three are consecrated to the memory of the members of his own family , all of whom it is his melancholy fate to
survive . tains , amidst much valuable instruction , on many interesting aud important subjects , a masterly discussion of a question in which the justice , the policy and the humanity of this couutry are equally and highly concerned , viz . the state of its criminal code .
" Jn the Monthly Review and British Critic , are also several articles from hi - pen . But he is indebted for much of his literary fame to his great skill in writing Latin and English inscriptions i of which the number 'already amounts to thirty ; and among which , three—to the memory
of Mr . Gibbon , Dr . Johnson and Sir John Moore , are highly distinguished ; and two •—to the memory of Mr . Burke and Mr-Fox , —are said to be written with great effort , but have not seen the light . His manuscript sermons and discussions upon many points of literature and metaphysics , are known to his friends to be numerous ; but he seems to have a peculiar and almost invincible dislike to publication , and there i » , unhappily , a rumour that all his manuscripts are * ordered to bo destroyed , after his decease *"
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darkness , by < the very meafcs which those po * ve «» adopted ta defeat him in the moraeat when the celeatiaA glory that surrounded him daring l > is mmistry , and life itself * were withdrawing their last rays from our horizon , to cause the dawn of an immortal day to the . long-benighted race of man .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1823, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1786/page/42/
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