Literary Memoirs of Living Authors of Great Britain; Arranged According to an Alphabetical Catalogue and Including a List of Their Works, with Occasio - Softcover

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. 1798. Excerpt: ... in six large octavo volumes, published in 1785; an octavo volume of Sermons and Tracts, published in 1788, and consisting chiefly of his smaller pieces which had been published separately before that time, as already enumerated; three Charges delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Landasf; an Address to young Persons after Confirmation, a pamphlet, which had been annexed to the first of his Charges; Considerations on the Expediency of Revising the Liturgy and Articles of the Church of England, a pamphlet, published in 1790; and. An Apology for the Bible," in answer to Paine's Age Of Reason, Part II. Among these, his Lordship's Sermon for the Westminster Dispensary, preached in 1785, and published with an excellent Appendix, in 1793; as well as his most seasonable, strong, judicious, and beautiful Apology for the Bible, are peculiarly entitled to commendation. As a writer, Dr. Watson has united with almost unexampled grace, the knowledge of a scholar with the liberality of a gentleman, the warm piety of a true christian, and the open manliness of a well-intending character. It has been said, perhaps, with truth, that he is not a stranger to the pride of rank, that he is not deaf to the whispers of ambition, and that he feels with anguish the-mortification of disappointment: he has, moreover, rendered himself not a little conspicuous by his opposition to the measures of administration. Yet, whatever delinquencies his detractors may have discovered, none can, with truth, deny that his deportment, in the course of a long, an active, and a conspicuous life, has been marked by the characteristics of a very superior mind...,' WEBB, DANIEL, ESQ. A writer of distinguished taste and ingenuity. He publiihed, in 1762, Remarks on the Beauties of Poetry, in an octav...