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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...of Grafton charged him with lauding up despotism, and betraying the principles of the Revolution.2 He was unable, said he, even to pronounce 'liberty' without a qualification. The Prince of Wales, however, his old pupil, was much attached to him, and always spoke highly of him,3 and Bishop Newton says of him that he was a generous-minded man with a noble way of thinking.4 Considering that Richard Terrick, who had previously been Bishop of Peterborough (1757-64), held for thirteen years (1764-77) the important see of London, less is heard of him than might have been expected. He must have been a man of some mark, for the Archbishopric of York was offered to him, and in Parliament he is said 1 Walpole's Journal, ii. 119. 2 Parliam. Hut., xxix. 330, 350.! Hurd's Life, p. 373. 4 Newton's Autobiog., p. 1G8. TERRICK. LOWTH 211 to have been listened to with much attention.1 But he was accused by some of being supple and artful,2 and nothing that is told of him gives the idea of anything like power. Little can be said of a bishop who, so far as it appears, fulfilled the duties of his office with decent respectability, according to the standard of his age, but came in no way prominently forward as a leader of opinion or of action. Few names of English bishops in the eighteenth century are so well remembered as that of Robert Lowth (St. David's 1766, Oxford 1766-77, London 1777-87). The pure and elegant Latin of his 'Praelectiones' permanently secured his fame as a scholar; his learning as a Hebraist is still more firmly established by his valuable works on the sacred poets of the Hebrews. An amiable and accomplished man, of deep unaffected piety, he would have been in any age an ornament to his Church. He was also an excellent preacher. Somerville speaks with much a...

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