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[ Concluded from p * 463 , ]
MR . IIURD , had now passed several years on his rectory of Thurcaston , where amidst his literary pursuits , he attained , as an intelligent friend has informed us , " on unquestionable authori - ty , " the truly honourable character of 64 an exemplary parishpriest . " lie had indeed , during .
this period , so much secluded himself from the world , that a witty nobleman , we believe Lord Chesterfield , is said to have replied to an inquiry made at court respecting the author of the Dialogues and the Commentator on
Horace , that he was not dead , but buried . He was now howover to appear again in that society which his literary accomplish-. inents had well qualified him to adorn , and where the road of preferment soon opened to his
view-In 1765 , he became assistant preacher at the Rolls Chapel , * Gent . Mag . Yet all the obituaries , as the i mmediate successor of Warburtpn advancement to the prelacy , in 1760 .
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and the same year he was appointed " preacher to the honourable Society of Lincoln ' s-Ihn " succeeding Dr . Ashton , who had been the successor of
Warburton * . This appointment he owed to the friendship of the honourable Charles York , with whom he appears , by a passage in the Letters on Chivalry-f ? to have maintained a very familiar literary intercourse . In 1 ? 67 » through
the influence of his friend the Bishop , he gained the arch-deaconry of Gloucester , and in 176 S , he received at Cambridge , his degree ' of Doctor of Divinity . In 1772 , Dr . llurd published
in two volumes , Select Works ' of Cowley " with a preface and notes . " The editor says of his author in the preface , that 44 every thing he , wrote is either so good or so bad , that in all reason a separation should be made . " He attributes " this
even that in the G . M . represent Hurd , , who resigned the preachership on his
" f Huird ' s Dialogues , &c . 5 th ed . iii . 214 ,
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MONTH LY REPOSITORY OF . . . ¦ ¦ , .. Theology and General Literature .
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1 MEMOIR OF THE LATE RICHARD KURD , D . © . BISHOP OF WORCESTER . 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/1/
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