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Life Of The Right Reverend John Egerton, Late Lord Bishop Of Durham.
rather declined than courted it ; and whenever any thing that had a tendency to his commendation was accidentally introduced into conversation , either b } ' his friends or dependents , So far from thinkingit his due , he appeared rather to suspect the one of partiality , and the other of flattery . This aversion to show and parade ran through the whole of his characterso much that the several public
appear-, ances and processions his station required , which might be considered as a part , and to many would have been a pleasing part of their duty , were irksome to him . The same freedom from ostentation was observable with regard to his literary endowments , and from that motive , as well as from his abhorrence of controversy , and , perhaps , also from a conviction that there ivere already too many
writers , he was ever disinclined to write for the public * . His ' merit as a scholar was , however , well known , and properly estimated , bysuch of his private friends as were themselves distinguished by their erudition j . In the early part of his life he was fond of those manly exercises which ive strength and vigour both to the body and mindwithout
g , suffering them to interrupt his studies ; a practice which , thus regulated , instead of being injurious , is serviceable to learning , and which men eminent for their judgment have lamented was not more cultivated and improved . His usual relaxations were yet such as exercised the understanding ; chess was his favourite amusement , and lie played well at that game . The Greek and Latin tongues were
familiar to him , but he delighted most in the Greek . He spoke the French and Italian languages , and wrote and spoke his own with purity and precision . Of books he had a competent knowledge , and collected a good library . In every thing he had a pure taste . — In history , anecdotes , ancl memoirs , in the belles Litres , in the arts and sciences , ancl in whatever else may be supposed to fall within the circle of polite education , he was by no means uninstructed .
But the feature which in him was as prominent as it is lovely was , a perfect union of dignity and humility . In society with persons of his own rank he maintained his equality ; and in his intercourse with the inferior ranks , of men , where vice did not forbid , he stooped with the utmost condescension to the lowest . To all who had any business or concerns with him he was accessible and sincerely affable , and more especially to the inferior clergy .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Life Of The Right Reverend John Egerton, Late Lord Bishop Of Durham.
rather declined than courted it ; and whenever any thing that had a tendency to his commendation was accidentally introduced into conversation , either b } ' his friends or dependents , So far from thinkingit his due , he appeared rather to suspect the one of partiality , and the other of flattery . This aversion to show and parade ran through the whole of his characterso much that the several public
appear-, ances and processions his station required , which might be considered as a part , and to many would have been a pleasing part of their duty , were irksome to him . The same freedom from ostentation was observable with regard to his literary endowments , and from that motive , as well as from his abhorrence of controversy , and , perhaps , also from a conviction that there ivere already too many
writers , he was ever disinclined to write for the public * . His ' merit as a scholar was , however , well known , and properly estimated , bysuch of his private friends as were themselves distinguished by their erudition j . In the early part of his life he was fond of those manly exercises which ive strength and vigour both to the body and mindwithout
g , suffering them to interrupt his studies ; a practice which , thus regulated , instead of being injurious , is serviceable to learning , and which men eminent for their judgment have lamented was not more cultivated and improved . His usual relaxations were yet such as exercised the understanding ; chess was his favourite amusement , and lie played well at that game . The Greek and Latin tongues were
familiar to him , but he delighted most in the Greek . He spoke the French and Italian languages , and wrote and spoke his own with purity and precision . Of books he had a competent knowledge , and collected a good library . In every thing he had a pure taste . — In history , anecdotes , ancl memoirs , in the belles Litres , in the arts and sciences , ancl in whatever else may be supposed to fall within the circle of polite education , he was by no means uninstructed .
But the feature which in him was as prominent as it is lovely was , a perfect union of dignity and humility . In society with persons of his own rank he maintained his equality ; and in his intercourse with the inferior ranks , of men , where vice did not forbid , he stooped with the utmost condescension to the lowest . To all who had any business or concerns with him he was accessible and sincerely affable , and more especially to the inferior clergy .