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. 1849 Excerpt: ... at all likely to commit. But the blunder is all the critic's. We do not say that he knew nothing of these 're markable men' till he saw them mentioned in Mr. Macaulay's references; but had he known a little more of them, he would have been aware that they were of the same name, and nearly related; that though the name ...
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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. 1849 Excerpt: ... at all likely to commit. But the blunder is all the critic's. We do not say that he knew nothing of these 're markable men' till he saw them mentioned in Mr. Macaulay's references; but had he known a little more of them, he would have been aware that they were of the same name, and nearly related; that though the name was sometimes spelt with an a, and sometimes without it, everybody who has occasion to mention them has always spelt both names alike--that when Lawrence himself mentions John he spells his name as he does his own--Echard; and that the Biographia Britannica spells them both Eachard. Can the depths of drivelling sink lower than this? Mr. Macaulay is complained of for his scanty catalogue of the luminaries of the English Church who flourished in 1685. The critic complains of the omission of ' Jeremy Taylor, Sanderson, 'Ken, Sparrow, Oughtred, Cudvvorth, Hall, Herbert, Godwin, Hammond, Fuller, Hooper, Pearson, and a hundred others.' The complaint is absurd--and worse than absurd. Cudworth and Pearson are mentioned in the paragraph complained of. Ken is mentioned so often in the book as not to require to be named again. As to the rest, not one of them, except Hooper and Sparrow, were alive in 1685, and these are not very great names. Taylor had been dead eighteen years; Sanderson twenty-two years; Fuller and Hammond twenty-four years; Oughtred twenty-five years; Hall nearly thirty years; and Godwin and Herbert nearly fifty years! And yet, these are the names which it seems Mr. Macaulay ought to have introduced as being the living lights of the Church of England in 1685! Mr. Macaulay is vehemently assailed for his account of the social position of the clergy, and for his construction of the Royal Order given by Bishop Sparrow in his collection. We...
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