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sioRs" which the learned editor of " Tracts by Warborton aud a Warburtonian" has selected from tWs performance * . During the same yea ? , 1757 , Mv . Hurd was mpre agreeably occupied in addressing to his friend ,, the poet , Mason ^ a dissertation ' * On the Marks of
Imitation : ' this was afterwards reprinted with the Horace , and has buen considered as the most ingenious of his critical Essays . The author had now succeeded as senior
fellow of his college to the living of Thureaston , in Leicestershire , 2 * sequestered spot , rendered venerable as the birth-place of Lati-Bierf , whose portrait is preserved in the rectorial house . Mr- Hurd
appears to have discovered through life a taste for literary leisure and retirement beyond what the dignified clergy have generally possessed . His friend , Mason , indeed , supposes him ,
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perhaps with an . allowable poetic licence , to have hem set up if he terminus of ecclesiastical ; ; ambition , and to . hav < e possessed qn independence of spirit ? wfeichrotfcer observers h ^ ve failed to discovery in one who has been too ^ justly entitled the adde-de- < zam > p > a& 4 .
even the sycophant of Warbwrtonjw Dedicating to kim Guract&eu $ in a beautiful elegy , aftefr de- ^ scribing the ^ friend of his y ^ outh' ' ' who had guided and ckerishod * big studious . pux&uiisv the poet sf > e&fca * of Mr . Hi ^ rd as oq % ' who gmc * 4 by e ^ vy Hherahzrt
J hat best , mig ht , sjb ^ ic ^ a ^ o ^ g ^ % ^ r ^ r ed train , ' . Yet more excelled in jjibrals an < ji ; in heart ; -: Wfao ^ eqtiaj m ind , could sec vain "for * tune slwf ' r , - ' * Her flimsy favours on the faviri ^ ing pre ^ r . While in low Tnurcaston * i sequestef'd bowr > ' She 6 x * d him distant from pron ^ otibn ' s view- : ,. '
fVp be concluded tn our ttext . J * Tracts , &c . p . 161 . f Latimer was born about 1470 . In a sermon before Edward VI . he gives The foliowiog account of his family , which maybe interesting a * H « a talc of ^> thcr times * " ' '¦ - »" «« My father was a yeoman , an 4 had no lan < Js of hjs own , oply he i d a far ^ pf three or four pounds by the year at the utmost , and upoji which he tilled ? o much as kept half a dozen men . He had walk for one hundred sheep ; jand my mother milked thirty kine . He was able , and did find the k { ing [ Hen . Vll . ^ . ' a harjpess , witti himself and his horse , whilst he cappje t& tl ? e pla ^ qe that he tfoqul fl receive the king ' s wages . I can renumber tjjiat I bucfcle ^ his harness Tvh ^ n he went to Blackhcath fiel ^ [ a muster againk the Cornish rebels , 14 ^ 7 . j Jfte kepjt me to school , or else I had not been able to have preached before the £ ; ing * s miiesty now . He married my sisters with five pounds orHwenty nobles a pierie ; so jthat he brought iheun up in godliness and ir fear of Go ^ i . We jkep t h <> 4 pitaKty for Jiispoor neig hbpu ^ rs ; a ^ nd some alms , he g ^ y , e to . % fe paor . ^ nd all this he did of ihe said farm . " Sermon by the Rev . Father in Christ , Master Hugh Latimer , Bishop of Worcester . Being' the first of seven' preached before king Edward the 6 th , within the preaching-place in the palac © at Westminster , on the eighth day # f ^ f arch in the ye ^ r 1549 / ' X ^ mer ' s $ ermpns 1758 , i . 79-J " Disney ' s Mem . of Sykes , pp . 383 , 84 . ¦ ¦ . » .
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4 iO Memoir of the lat&I&chazd'Hifrd ^ Di B * BiskapjoJ ^ Wprces ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 410, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/6/
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