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who was indeed upon reflection , so ill satisfied with this production as to use every means in his power , but in vain , to suppress it , Lowth who , as " a certain eminent professor / ' had not escaped a sneer at " his very edifying discourses on the Hebrew poetry V considered the author as having at least shewn more zeal than discretion in the undertake ing ) and more malevolent wit than good sense or honest intention in the performance + / ' Warburton in reply , as might be expected , applauds the design and tendency of this pamphlet which displays " the finest irony in the world , ' * and describes the author as u a man of very superior talents and genius , learning and
virtue ; indeed a principal ornament of the age * he lives in {/• Jortin , the party chiefly concerned , appears to have been little affected by this rude
hostility , or at least , wi | h true policy , to have concealed his feelings . He took no notice of the pamphlet except in a note to his 44 Life of Erasmus . " The " Dissertation
on the Delicacy of Friendship , " had concluded with a Greek quotation in praise of philosophers , at the expense of " little gramma , rians . " Jortin copies the quotation , closing ^ his note with the
remark that" grarfrrttaxians account it no ^ disgrace to be vilified by a mountebank || . " In the progress of this Memoir , it will be seen how a distinguished scholar , now Jiving , thought fit to draw the u Seventh ^ Dissertation" from the
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oblivion to which the author had long consigned it , and to re-expose it lo the censure of the learned j under what provocation does not clearly appear . Another opportunity soon oc ~ curred to cement the connexion between Mr . Hurd and his learned patron . On the publication of Hume ' s " Natural History of Religion /* Warburton . had communicated some remarks on that work to his friend , who obtained his consent to publish them with an introduction and conclusion from his own pen * Such is the account given in the * Discourse by way of Preface , " prefixed to the works of the Bishop of Gloucester in 1794 . Till that time , Mr , Hurd had been considered as the sole author of the
pamphlet , to whose iimusement even Hume failed to discover the hand of the master himsel fff . He says that c * Dr . Hurd wrote a pamphlet against his wofrk with . all the illiberal petulance , arrogance , and scurrility , which
distinguish the Warburtonian school § . " It is much to be regretted that an infidel couldTbring a censure so just against his Christian opponent , for he is railed against in the " Kemarks * as a * captious , versatile , and
evasive writer—a puny dialectic cian from the north , who came to the attack with a beggarly troop of routed sophisms—the philosophic head of a philosophic gang , who dealt in mere pedlars ' wares of matter and motion /* Such are the cc choice
express-4 ' * Seventh Dissertation in Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian , " p . * 2 j , f JLetter , Sec . p . 107 . . ' J Id . pp . xiSt 1 * 6 . j ] Jortin * s Erasmus , 4 to . p . 604 . flf Discourse , &c . pp . 81 , 82 . § Hume ' s " Own fafc , " p , 5 f
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$ ttmoir of the late Richard Hvrd , D . D . Bishop of Worcester * 40 £
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/5/
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