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u It is therefore my earnest wish , that in addition to the various scientific and literary subjects already proposed by this institution , a series of lectures should be delivered on the formation of the character
and the conduct of life ; intended to exemplify the rules of morality , and to enforce the practice of them , not merely by a scientific elucidation , but by a practical view of the affairs of the world , the consequence of a neglect or performance of the various duties of life , by the influence of the feelings , the dictates of conscience ,
and above all , by the sublime sanctions of the religion we profess . By these means , and by these alone , the various acquisitions made in every department of science or taste , will be concentrated in one point , directed to one great object , and applied to their proper purpose—the illustration and perfection of the human character /* Pp . 77—79 . K .
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and that the neglect of the court would have been a good reason for a more devoted application to books , and none at all for flying from libraries to farm-yards . Would not Dr . Watson ' s practical reasoning seem to imply , that the interests of a prime minister are identical with one ' s own
intellectual improvement , and that he may be punished for his neglect of us by our turning the back upon knowledge ? Yet no man knew better than our biographer , that very different arts from those of a student are prized by ministers of state .
A vacancy in the see of Carlisle , in the year 1787 , excited the hopes of Bishop Watson ' s friends , but furnished another proof of his want of interest at court . The following anecdote shews that there is a more powerful recommendation to the episcopal bench than public services , namely , parliamentary interest : —
u About a month "before the death of the Bishop of Carlisle , a relation of Sir James Lowther had preached the Commencement Sermon at Cambridge . Mr . Pitt happened to sit next to me at church , and asked me the name of the preacher , not much approving his performance . I to ! 4 him report
said , that be was to be the future Bishop of Carlisle 5 and I begged him to have some respect to the dignity of the bench whenever a vacancy happened . He
assured me , that he knew nothing of any such arrangement . Within two months after this , Sir James Lowther applied to Mr . Pitt for the Bishopric of Carlisle , for the gentleman whom he had heard preach , and Mr . Pitt without the least hesitation
promised it- This was one of the many transactions that gave me an unfavourable opinion of Mr . Pitt ; I saw that he was ready to sacrifice things the most sacred to the furtherance of his ambition . The gentleman , much to his honour 9 declined the acceptance of the Bishopric , which Mr . Pitt with true ministerial policy had offered him . " P . 189 .
Neglected and dispirited , the Bishop retired to an equal distance from Mr . Pitt and from his diocese , ( where , it should be said , there was no palace for his residence , ) and , becoming a considerable land-owner in his
native county of Westmoreland , devoted hi in self with assiduity and success to agricultural pursuits . Yet in his seclusion , and especially in his occasional visits to the great . world , he was sometimes reminded of his uncourtly principles and habits . There is no
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198 Review . —Life of the Bishop of Landaffi *
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Art II . —Anecdotes of the Life of Richard Watson , Bishop ofLandaff : written by himself Src . ( Continued from p . 137 . )
PTT 1 HE' Bishop attributes his taking JL leave of the University to the state of his health , which was injured by . application to study and collegebusiness for nearly thirty-three years : but he avows , indiscreetly we think , that this was not his only motive for retirement . He says ,
" In truth , had my health heen better , X should have felt little inclination to persevere in my studies in the manner I had done . I could not bring myself to vote as a minister bade me , on all occasions , and I perceived that such was the temper of the times , or such tvas the temper of the man , nothing less than that would secure his attention . I saw this to
be the case then , and I then and at all times disdained complying with principles of government so abominably corrupt . I once talked a little to the first Lord Camclen on this subject ; and he plainly told me , that I had better go to Cambridg-e and
employ myselt in writing" books , than pretend to follow my own judgment in political matters ; that he never knew any man who had attempted to do it , except one very honest man , who was little valued by any party , —Sir Joseph Jekyll /*—P . 187 .
Men ' s judgment and taste are widely -different , and ours may be wrong ; but we should have thought that there was a pleasure in literary and scientific pursuits , not to be heightened by the smile or lowered by the frown of a first lord of the treasury ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 198, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/46/
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