his career was terminated by a short illness, produced by a violent cold caught in superintending some additions which he was making to his house. He died on the 15th of August, 1798, in the sixty-fourth year of his age.

Dr. Waring successively produced a number of pieces, of a like abstruse kind as his "Miscellanea Analytica," such as the "Proprietates Algebraicarum Curvarum," published in 1772, the "Meditationes Algebraica," published in 1770, and the "Meditationes Analytica," which were in the press during 1773, 1774, 1775, and 1776. These were the chief and the most laborious works edited by the professor; and in the Philosophical Transactions is to be found a variety of papers, the nature of which may be seen from the following catalogue.

Vol. LIII page 294, Mathematical Problems.--LIV. 193, New Properties in Conics.-LV. 143, Two Theorems in Mathematics. LXIX. Problems concerning Interpolations. Ib. 86, A general Resolution of Algebraical Equations.LXXVI. 91, On Infinite Series -LXXVII. 71, On finding the Values of Algebraical Quantities by converging serieses, and demonstrating and extending propositions given by Pappus and others.-LXXVIII. 67, On Centripetal Forces. Ib. 588, On some Properties of the Sum of the Division of Numbers.-LXXIX. 166, On the Method of correspondent Values, &c. Ib. 185, On the Resolution of attractive Powers.-LXXXI. 146, On infinite Serieses.-LXXXIV. 385-415, On the Summation of those Serieses whose general term is a determinate function of z, the distance of the term of the Series. For these papers, the professor was, in 1784, deservedly honoured by the Royal Society with sir Godfrey Copley's medal; and most of them afford very strong proofs of the powers of his mind, both in abstract science, and the application of it to philosophy; though they labour, in common with his other works, under the disadvantage of being clothed in a very unattractive form.

In his disposition and character, Dr. Waring is represented as of inflexible integrity, great modesty, plainuess, and simplicity of manners; of a meekness and a diffidence of mind to such a degree, as to be always embarrassed before strangers. His extreme short-sightedness too, joined to a certain want of order and method in his mind, which appeared remarkably even in his hand-writing, rendered his mathematical compositions so confused and embarrassed,

that in manuscript they were often utterly inexplicable, a circumstance which may account for the numerous typographical errors in his publications.

We shall sum up this sketch of the life of Dr. Waring, with the concluding words of his "Essay on Human Knowledge," which contain a just and pleasing specimen of his genuine piety and unfeigned humility. "Should it please Providence to deprive me of the use of my Faculties, may I submit with humble resignation! May I for the future lead a life better in practice, and more fervent in devotion to the Supreme Being; and may God grant me his grace here, and pardon for my sins, when the trumpet of the great Archangel shall summon me to life again, and to judgement!"

WARNER (FERDINANDO), a very voluminous writer, was born in 1703, but where we are not told. He was of Jesus college, Cambridge, according to Mr. Cole, but we do not find his name among the graduates of that university. In 1730 he became vicar of Ronde, in Wiltshire; in 1746 rector of St Michael Queenhithe, London, and in 1758 rector of Barnes, in Surrey. He also styles himself chaplain to the lord chancellor, and LL. D.; the latter title probably obtained from some northern university. He died Oct. 3, 1768, aged sixty-five. Dr. Warner was a laborious man, and having deservedly attained the character of a judicious and useful writer, as well as a popular preacher, he was frequently engaged in compilations for the booksellers, which, however, he executed in a very superior manner, and gave many proofs of diligent research and judgment, both in his reflections and in the use he made of his materials. The following we believe to be a complete, or nearly complete list of his publications: 1. "A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, January 30, 1748." 2 "A Sermon preached before the Lord Mayor, on September 2," 1749. 3. "A system of Divinity and Morality, containing a series of discourses on the principal and most important points of natural and revealed Religion; compiled from the works of the most eminent divines of the Church of England," 1750, 5 vols. 12mo. This was reprinted in 1756, 4 vols. 8vo. 4. "A scheme for a Fund for the better Maintenance of the Widows and Children of the

1 Account of Shrewsbury, 1810, 12mo -Gleig's Supplement to the Encyclopedia Britannica.-Hutton's Dict. new. edit.

clergy," 1753, 8vo. For this scheme, when carried into execution, he received the thanks of the London clergy, assembled in Sion college, May 21, 1765, and published another pamphlet, hereafter to be mentioned. 5. "An illustration of the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church of England," &c. 1754, folio. In this year he took the degree of LL. D. probably, as we have already suggested, at some northern university. 6. "Bolingbroke, or a dialogue on the origin and authority of Revelation,' 1755, 8vo. . 7. “A free and necessary enquiry whether the Church of England in her Liturgy, and many of her learned divines in their writings, have not, by some unwary expressions relating to Transubstantiation and the real presence, given so great an advantage to papists and deists as may prove fatal to true religion, unless some remedy be speedily supplied; with remarks on the power of priestly absolution," 1755, 8vo. 8. In 1756 he published the first volume of his "Ecclesiastical History to the Eighteenth Century," folio; the second volume in 1757. This is the most valuable of all his works, and has frequently been quoted with approbation. 9. "Memoirs of the Life of sir Thomas More, lord high chancellor of England in the reign of Henry VIII. 1758," 8vo. This is dedicated to sir Røbert Henley, afterwards lord chancellor Northington, who is complimented for the favours he had conferred on him on his receiving the seals; probably for the rectory of Barnes, with which he held Queenhithe and Trinity the Less. 10. "Remarks on the History of Fingal and other poems of Ossian, translated by Mr. Macpherson, in a letter to the right hon. the lord L (Lyttelton)," 1762,

8vo. 11. "The History of Ireland, vol. I." 1763, 4to. He published no more of this, being discouraged by a disappointment in his expectatious of some parliamentary assistance. Yet in one of those newspaper notices, which Dr. Warner did not disdain, he speaks of the encouragement which he met with when he went to Ireland in 1761 in search of materials for this work. He tells us of "the liberty granted him by the provost and fellows of the university to peruse the books and MSS. in the college library, as also those in the library of St. Sepulchre, founded by the late primate Marsh; and of his free access to the collections of Mr. Harris, which were purchased by the parliament, &c.; that he was likewise complimented with the

liberty of searching the records of the privy council, and other offices, &c." 12. "A letter to the fellows of Sion college, and to all the clergy within the bills of mortality, and in the county of Middlesex, humbly proposing their forming themselves into a Society for the Maintenance of the Widows and Orphans of such Clergymen. To which is added, a sketch of some Rules and Orders suitable to that purpose," 1765, 8vo. 13. "The History of the Rebellion and Civil War in Ireland," 1767, 4to. 14. "A full and plain account of the Gout, whence will be clearly seen the folly or the baseness of all pretenders to the cure of it, in which every thing material by the best writers on that subject is taken notice of, and accompanied with some new and important instructions for its relief, which the author's experience in the gout above thirty years hath induced him to impart." This was the most unfortunate of all his publications, for soon after imparting his cure for the gout he died of the disorder, and destroyed the credit of his system.

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Dr. Warner is said to have declared that he wrote his "Ecclesiastical History," and his "Dissertation on the Common Prayer," three folio volumes, both the original and corrected copies, with one single pen, which was an old one when he began, and when he finished was not worn We are likewise told that a celebrated countess begged the doctor to make her a present of it, and he having complied, her ladyship had a gold case made with a short history of the pen engraved upon it, and placed it in her cabinet of curiosities. This foolish story, for such it probably is, reminds us of a similar one related of the pious Matthew Henry, who is said to have written the whole of his commentary on the Bible, 5 vols. fol. with one pen. Mr. Henry is also said to have made this declaration in public. Unfortunately, however, Mr. Henry never wrote the whole of his commentary, nor lived to see it completed, and consequently could have made no such declaration.

Dr. Warner's son, the late Dr. JOHN WARNER, was of Trinity college, Cambridge, B. A. 1758, M. A. 1761, and D. D. 1773. For many years he was preacher at a chapel in Long Acre, which was his private property. In 1771 he was presented to the united rectories of Hockliffe and Chalgrave, in Bedfordshire, and afterwards to the rectory of Stourton, in Wilts. Having resided in France at the æra of the revolution he imbibed all those principles which produced it, and although no man could be more an enemy

to the atrocities which followed, they made no difference in his republican attachments. He is known in the literary world by a singular publication entitled "Metromaristou," and wrote the "Memoirs of Mekerchus," in the Gentleman's Magazine. He died, after a few days illness, in St. John's-square, Clerkenwell, Jan. 22, 1800, aged sixtyfour. 1

WARNER (JOHN), a learned and munificent prelate, was the son of Herman Warner, citizen of London, and was born in the parish of St. Clement Danes, Strand, about 1585. After some grammatical education, in which he made a very rapid progress, he was sent to Oxford in 1598, and the year following was elected demy of Magdalen college. Here he proceeded successfully in his studies, and taking the degree of B. A. in 1602, commenced M. A. in June 1605, in which year he was elected to a fellowship. In 1610 he resigned this, probably in consequence of the fortune which came to him from his godmother. In 1614 he was presented to the rectory of St. Michael's, CrookedJane, by archbishop Abbot, which he resigned in 1616, and remained without preferment until 1625, when the archbishop gave him the rectory of St. Dionis Backchurch in Fenchurch-street. In the interim he had taken both his degrees in divinity at Oxford; and Abbot, continuing his esteem, collated him to the prebend of the first stall in the cathedral of Canterbury. He was also appointed governor of Sion college, London, and was made chaplain to Charles I. In the second year of this monarch's reign Dr. Warner preached before him while the parliament was sitting, during passion week, on Matt. xxi. 28, and took such liberties with the proceedings of that parliament as very highly provoked some of the members who happened to be present. Some measures appear to have been taken against him, but the dissolution of the parliament soon after protected him, yet we are told that a pardon from the king was necessary, which pardon was extant at the time Dr. Zachary Pearce communicated some particulars of his life to the editors of the "Biographia Britannica.”

In 1633 he attended the king on his coronation in Scotland, and the same year was collated by him to the deanery of Lichfield. In 1637 the king advanced him to the bishopric of Rochester, and notwithstanding the small revenue

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