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nor positive institution , ought to deter them from keeping ever uppermost in their thoughts and attention . " I never quote from this historian with so much pleasure as wheu he shews himself the enlightened friend of the true liberties of his country and of mankind . [ Mon . Repos . Vol . XIV . p . 472 . ] ( ro ) " To Benjamin [ Hoadly ] , Lord B ^ hop of Winchester / ' Lowth had dedicated [ 1758 ] " The Life of William of Wykeham . " In that dedication he styles his patron , " the great advocate of civil and religious liberty ;" with what eminent justice , the Life of Bishop Hoadly prefixed to his Works [ 17 / 3 ] , and , still more , those Works themselves , will declare . ( " ) See Akenside ' s Ode to this Prelate , and his note on Stanza ii . 1 .
( 0 ) « The fiery pedagogue" was Markham , Archbishop of York , and formerly Head Master of Westminster School . An intemperate discourse , which he delivered from the pulpit , * during the American war , had been . made the subject of animadversion , in the House of Peers , by the Duke of Grafton , and some other noblemen . The Archbishop ' s attempt to defend himself and to recriminate , was quite as dogmatical and overbearing as the tone of his sermon . Nor did it pass without rebuke ; he being admonished , by the Duke of Grafton , to consider where he was— " in a senate—and no longer in a school I " ( p ) This " tomb , " I believe , was Queen Caroline ' s , (< verses" on whose
death were written by Mr ., afterwards Bishop , Shipley . They are preserved in an elegant Selection of " Scots and English Poems , " entitled , The Univn , 2 d ed . 17 ^ 9 , of which some notices may be seen in Warton ' s Essay on Pope , Vol . I . 143 , 247 ( 5 th ed . ) , and in Nichols ' s Literary Anecdotes , &c , Vol . VI . [ article , the Wartons ~ \ . The style of this Prelate , both in poetry and prose , is of the purest character . But hi « noblest praise will be found in his intrepid and consistent assertion of Freedom—civil and sacred . His sermons and speeches were published collectively after his death . Those volumes contain the "just Philippic on oppressive power , " referred to by Mr . Hayley ; " a speech intended to have been spoken on the Massachusset's Bill /*
1774 . C ) Edmund Law , Bishop of Carlisle , died August 14 , 1787 , in the eightyfourth year of his age ; not three months before Dn Lowth . The short but intelligent and impartial Memoir of him , by Paley , + supersedes the necessity of any stranger ' s representation of the character and labours of the venerable editor of Locke ' s writings [ 1777 ] . From his earl y youth , Dr . Law was warmly attached to metaphysical studies , and deeply read in them . Paley dedicated to this (( his friend and first patron / ' his * ' Moral and Political Philosophy . " ( ) In the year 1778 , the " new translation of Isaiah , with a Preliminary
Dissertation , " &c , had raised Bishop Lowth ' s literary reputation even beyond the fame which he had previously and deservedly acquired . Not that , taken altogether , this work is of equal value and excellence with his lectures on the poetry of the Hebrews ; but that , being written in the English language , it attracted and gratified a much larger number of readers . It is with truth that the Poet ranks Lowth " Amid the purest lights of Learning ' s sky . " More varied and more curious scholars might , no doubt , be enumerated . But perhaps there have been few authors , of any country , who possessed such classical attainments , taste , and elegance , as this Prelate , or who made
* See an extract from it in Price ' s Postscript , &c , to the Fast Sermon of 1799 , p . 37—together with a quotation there made from a discourse by the otherwise liberal Bishop of Exeter [ Ross ] - t Separately reprinted , in 1800 , with the notes of Anonymus , which are distinguished by pertinency and intelligence .
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Hay ley ' s Elegy on the Ancient Greek Model . 62 B
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/25/
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