sition, were exactly suited to each other. He exhibited a large black, scowling, grizly figure, a ponderous body with a lowering visage, embrowned by the horrors of a sable periwig. His voice was growling, and morose; and his sentences desultory, tart, and snappish.

His sermons are interspersed with remarks, eminently brilliant and acute, but too epigrammatic in their close. They display that perfect propriety and purity of English diction, that chastized terseness of composition, which have scarcely been equalled by any writer. Like Cicero he wants nothing to complete his meaning; like Demosthenes he can suffer no deduction without essential injury to the sentence. He was a good scholar, a liberalminded Christian, and an honest man.

His uncivilized appearance, and bluntness of demeanour, were the grand obstacles to his elevation in the church. He kept a public act for his Doctor's degree, at the installation of the Chancellor, the late Duke of Newcastle, in 1753, with distinguished applause. The duke was willing to have brought our divine up to court, to prefer him; but found, as he exprest it, that the doctor was not a producible man.

Dr. Hallifax, the late Bishop of St. Asaph, was a passionate admirer and close imitator of.

Dr. Ogden. They were in company during the French war of 1756, and the conversation turning upon the politics of the day, mention was made of a recent capture, I think of some town. Hallifaxr enquired, "Who had taken it?" As this question implied the utmost ignorance of the state of the war, and all its circumstances at that time, Ogden, shocked at such inattention to public transactions, lifted up his eyes, turned away his face with disdain, and growled, "What an idiot!" Which furnishes no bad specimen of the doctor's plainness of rebuke. h

One of his singularities was a fondness for good cheer, with an excessive appetite; and his failing an immolerate indulgence of it. The following anecdote of his epicurism is related by a gentleman, now living, who was with him at St. John's:-The cook having spoiled a dish, the doctor was appointed to fine him; and he imposed three cucumbers, at their first appearance, which were paid; and all devoured by the doctor himself.

But let the memory, reader! of this deficiency in a worthy character perish with him, like the body, and the good things which it consumed: nor do thou refuse to join me in the charitable wish of the facetious bard

"Farewell! may the turf where thy cold reliques rest,
Bear herbs, odoriferous herbs; o'er thy breast
Their heads thyme, and sage, and pot-marjoram wave,
And fat be the gander that feeds on thy grave."

VOL. I.

ANSTEY'S " Bath Guide." W.

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The common exhibitioners at St. Mary's were the hack preachers employed in the service of defaulters and absentees. A piteous unedifying tribe!

"From eloquence and learning far remov'd,
As from the centre thrice to th' utmost pole,"

CHAP. V.

Study of Hebrew-Comparison between mathematical Philosophy and classical learning-The Author takes his Bachelor's Degree-Elected Fellow of Jesus College-Dr. Jebb, and Rev. Mr. Tyrwhitt.

1775-1778.

ALL the time previous to my degree, I was longing, with inexpressible impatience, for such a portion of emancipation from the academical studies, in which interest and ambition then engaged me, as would allow me some leisure for theological enquiries. This branch of learning, my love of important truth, and native seriousness of disposition, had ever represented to my mind as the essence of literary enjoyment.

During the long vacation of 1775, I relieved the severity of study by a relaxation of three weeks at my father's house in Richmond.

Still,

"That learning, which the former times were not so blessed as to know, sacred and inspired divinity, the sabbath and port of all men's labours and peregrinations."

BACON'S Works, 4to. I. 123, See also 55,

however, wanting employment when I was there, and falling upon Lyons's Hebrew Grammar, I set myself with diligence to the acquisition of the Hebrew language. For four or five days did I puzzle myself with that intolerable book, not aware of the abominable stupidity-a stupidity which no words can sufficiently stigmatize!-of learning that language with the points.

Most fortunately for me my father dined one day with the late Daniel Wray, Esq. of Richmond, a well-informed man, who had been educated at Cambridge, and was one of the authors of the admired "Athenian Letters." As this gentleman was an excellent linguist, I made known to him my embarrassment respecting the acquisition of the Hebrew. He expatiated on the extreme absurdity of attending to the points; lent me Masclef's Grammar; and, in the course of ten days, I had read in my father's Polyglott, by the help only of Buxtorf's Lexicon, nine or ten of the first chapters in "Genesis" without much difficulty, and with infinite delight.

From that hour I kept up a constant cultivation of the Hebrew; without some knowledge of which tongue, no man, I venture to affirm, can have an adequate perception of the phraseology of the New Testament.