Letters from a Late Eminent Prelate to One of His FriendsT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 - 510 pages |
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Page 112 - The church, like the Ark of Noah, is worth saving ; not for the sake of the unclean beasts and vermin that almost filled it and probably made most noise and clamour in it, but for the little corner of rationality, that was as much distressed by the stink within, as by the tempest without."— pp.
Page 29 - Poor Job ! It was his eternal fate to be persecuted by his friends. His three comforters passed sentence of condemnation upon him, and he hag been executing in effigic ever since. He was first bound to the stake by a long catena of Greek Fathers ; then tortured by Pineda ; then strangled by Caryl, and afterwards cut up by Wesley, and anatomized by Garnet.
Page 159 - The eldest settled very reputably in their own way, and the youngest in the Birmingham trade. For myself, a poor scholar, as you know, I am almost ashamed to own to you how solicitous they always were to furnish me with all the opportunities of the best and most liberal education. My case in so many particulars resembles that which the Roman poet describes as his own, that with Pope's wit I could apply almost every circumstance of it. And if ever I were to wish in earnest to be a poet, it would be...
Page 146 - to be " a just composition, according to the rules of history ; written with much judgment, penetration, manliness, and spirit, and with a candour that will greatly increase your esteem, when you understand that he wrote by order of his masters the Parliament.
Page 406 - The course four years, if three sermons a year ; or three years, if four sermons. So much for that matter at present. I hope, that not only my Lecture, but yourself, will be benefited, in reputation at least, by its commencing with you. Nor will you be hurried ; for, at soonest, it will not begin till after the next long vacation, or with the new year. You talk (and well) of your golden age 'of study, long past. For myself, I can only say, I have the same appetite for knowledge and learned converse...
Page 224 - Warburton, too, who had complimented Mr Heathcote to his face, speaks of him in a letter to Dr Hurd in 1757, as one whose " matter is rational, but superficial, and thin spread." He adds, " he will prove as great a scribbler as Comber. They are both sensible, and both have reading. The difference is, that the one has so much vivacity as to make him ridiculous ; the other so little as to be unentertaining. Comber's excessive vanity may be matched by Heathcote's pride, which, I think, is a much worse...
Page 203 - The common definition of man is false; he is not a reasoning animal. The best you can predicate of him is, that he is an animal capable of reasoning.
Page 199 - I HAVE to tell you, that it has pleased God to release my poor father from his great misery. You will guess the rest, when I acquaint you that his case was cancerous. All his family have great reason to be thankful for his deliverance : and yet I find myself not so well prepared for the stroke as I had thought. I blame myself now for having left him ; though, when I was with him, as I could not hide my own uneasiness, I saw it only added to his.
Page 364 - T have no great opinion of the trifling part of the publick, which pretends to judge of this part of literature, in which boys and girls decide, yet I think nobody can be mistaken in this comparison: though I think their thoughts have never yet extended thus far as to reflect, that to discover the corruption in an...
Page 170 - I found but two things to admire, as excellent in their kinds; the one is the beef-eaters, whose broad faces bespeak such repletion of body and inanition of mind as perfectly fright away those two enemies of man, famine and thought. The other curiosity is our table-decker, of so placid a mien and so entire a taciturnity (both of them improved by the late elopement of his wife), that he is much fitter for the service of a Minister of State than of the Gospel.