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in 1804 , with great parade , by order of her Majesty , and supervised by the Bishop of London . The Bishop expresses his uwpreparedness to learn religion from a Lutheran divine , his dislike of the technical terms Original
Righteousness , FcederalMead , &c , and his opinion that the want of system in our writers may have given this book a great estimation in the judgment of her Majesty , in preference to those of our own country , which ( he adds ) it cannot be expected she should be much acquainted with .
His old friend Mr . Tyrwhitt , of Jesus * College , Cambridge , sent him this year his sermon , preached at St . Mary ' s Church , designed to prove that the baptismal form ( Matt , xxviii . l ' ( j ) does not contain the doctrine of the Trinity : in his letter ,
acknowledging the receipt of it , he allows that the preacher has excited a reasonable doubt upon the subject , yet he confesses that it sticks with him , ( p . 407 , ) " that as the Father and the Son are persons , how the Holy Ghost can be otherwise conceived than as a
person in that form . Tbe illness of the Archbishop of Canterbury , in 1805 , seems to have awakened the Bishop ' s sense of the neglect of him by the Court . He had no expectation , he tells the reader , of an archbishopric , for the Duke
of Clarence once said to him , " Ihey will never make you an archbishop ; they are afraid of you / ' Me adds , we fear too truly , " Partisans in Parliament , Tories in government , bigots ia religion , these are the men who thrive ii > all corrupted states , and by thriving accelerate the ruin of free
constitutions . " ( P . 411 . ) We record with pleasure , that , in 1805 , the Bishop delivered , and in 1808 , published a Change , in favour of the Catholic claims . He relates a pleasing instance of his use of his episcopal patronage , in the
presentation of a small living , that of Riahopston , near Swansea , worth from L 20 Z . to 140 Z . a-year , to Mr . Davies , curate of Olveston , in Gloucestershire , personally unknown to him , on account solely of his having published a learned work , entitled " Celtic Researches . "
On the marriage of bus son , who was in the army ,, the Bishop recommended him to the protection of the
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Duke of York , who immediately promoted him , without purchase , from a Majority to a Lieutenant Colonelcy in the Third Dragoon Guards : a favour which the father acknowledged in a short letter , strongly expressive of gratitude . ( P . 424 . )
An excellent letter to Lord Euston , on the education of his son , Lord Ipswich , is inserted ( pp . 424—429 ) : the Bishop , consistently with his profession , advises , that religion should be made the basis of the youth ' s character , and by this he explains his meaning to be , that the . Gospels should be considered bv him . habitually as
the rule of life . For the attainment of a good English style , elegant and strong , he recommends a familiarity with Middleton ' s Life of Cicero , and Plutarch ' s Lives by Langhorne . To
form the taste , he advises the study of Rolling Belles Lett res , in his good opinion of which he is strengthened by knowing that it was greatly esteemed by Bishop Atterbury , one of the politest scholars of his age .
The death of Mr . Pitt draws from the Bishop the remark of Dr . Price on Lord North , that "he doubled a national debt before too heavy to be endured ; and let future generations rise up and , if possible , call him—Blessed . "
We think that the Bishop has happily described the character of Paley as a writer , in the following passage , occurring in a letter to Mr . Hayley , dated June 14 , 1806 : u Paley 5 in all his publications , had the art of making * use > in a very great degree , of other men ' s labours , and of exhibiting * them to the world as novelties of his own .
The perspicuity with which he has arL ranged , and the elegant language in which he has explained many abstruse points , are bis own ; and for these I give him great praise . "—Pp . 437 , 438 . The Bishop of St . Asaph died
unexpectedly in October , 1806 ; whereupon Dr . Watson , that he might not furnish the minister ( Lord G , renvill < 0 with the excuse for passing him by , tliat he had not asked for itf got a common friend to inform him , that on account of his northern connexions
the bishopric would be peculiarly acceptable . It was , notwithstanding , given , to anptljcr . The Bishop gave vent to his feelings in a letter to tlje Duke of Clarence , to be shewn to the
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756 Review . — Life of the Bishop of Landaff .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/28/
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