Resolutions of Common Sense about Common Rights. By Thomas Bull, 1792... One Penny-worth of Truth from Thomas Bull to his A Letter to John Bull, Esq. from his second Cousin, Fable of the Rats, to the associated Friends of Liberty at the Feathers Tavern, 1771...... N. B. The Article marked thus is now first printed. A PREFATORY EPISTLE то WILLIAM STEVENS, ESQ. MY DEAR FRIEND, THE works of the late Bishop Horne are in many hands, and will be in many more. No reader of any judgment can proceed far into them, without discovering, that the author was a person of eminence for his learning, eloquence, and piety; with as much wit, and force of expression, as were consistent with a temper so much corrected and sweetened by devotion. To all those who are pleased and edified by his writings, some account of his life and conversation will be interesting. They will naturally wish to hear what passed between such a man and the world in which he lived. You and I, who knew him so well and loved him so much, may be suspected of partiality to his memory; but we have unexceptionable testimony to he greatness and importance of his character. While we were under the first impressions of our grief for the loss of him, a person of high distinction, who was intimate with him for many years, declared to you and to me, that he verily believed him to have been the best man he ever knew. Soon after the late Earl of Guildford was made Chancellor of the University of Oxford, another great man, who was allowed to be an excellent judge of the weight and wit of conversation, recommended Dr. Horne, who was then vice-chancellor, to him in the following terms; "My Lord, I "question whether you know your vice-chancellor so "well as you ought. When you are next at Oxford, 66 go and dine with him; and, when you have done "this once, I need not ask you to do it again ; 66 you will find him the pleasantest man you ever met "with." And so his lordship seemed to think (who was himself as pleasant a man as most in the kingdom) from the attention he paid to him ever after. I have heard it observed of him by another gentleman, who never was suspected of a want of jugdment, that, if some friend had followed him about with a pen and ink, to note down his sayings and observations, they might have furnished out a collection like that which Mr. Boswell has given to the public; but frequently of a superior |