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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
Bedfordshire , and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . His person was above the middle size . In his youth he had certainly been handsome . His countenance was remarkably expressive , and bespoke the sweetness of his temper . In the canonical habit , his figure was venerably interesting .
His remains were interred in the family vault of his father-in-law , Phil . Burton , Esq . at Eltham , in Kent ; where a monument is erected in the church-yard to his memory , with the following elegant and just inscription ; the same inscription ( with a sli ght alteration ) being also on a monument lately erected to his memory in the Cathedral of Norwich :
Here lie interred The earthl y Remains of The Right Reverend GEORGE HoRBE , D . D . Many Years President . of Magdalen College in Oxford , Dean of Canterbury , And late Bishop of Norwich . In whose Character
Depth of Learning , Bri ghtness of Imagination , Sanctity of Manners , and Sweetness of Temper Were united beyond the usual Lot of Mortality . With his Discourses from the Pulpit , his Hearers , Whether of the University , the City , or the Country Parish , Were edified and delihted .
g His Commentary on the Psalms will continue to be A Companion to the Closet Till the Devotion of Earth shall end in the Hallelujahs of Heaven .. Having patiently suffered under such Infirmities As seemed not due to his years , His Soul took its'fli ght from this Vale of Misery ;
To the unspeakable Loss of the Church of England , And his sorrowing Friends and Admirers , Jan . 17 th , j 792 , in the 6 ad Year ' of his Age .
Memoirs Of The Late Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR . PAUL HIFFERNAN .
THIS Author may well be reckoned amongst the extraordiiiariRs of modern literature—not that he excelled his cotemporaries ei-. ther in genius or learning—he derives this character from his eccentricities , and to this he was fairl y entitled from the peculiarity of his familiar habits , his studies , and his writings . Dr . Paul Hiffernan was born in the county of Dublin , in the year 1719 , and received his earl y education at a ' grammar school in that
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
Bedfordshire , and Chaplain to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales . His person was above the middle size . In his youth he had certainly been handsome . His countenance was remarkably expressive , and bespoke the sweetness of his temper . In the canonical habit , his figure was venerably interesting .
His remains were interred in the family vault of his father-in-law , Phil . Burton , Esq . at Eltham , in Kent ; where a monument is erected in the church-yard to his memory , with the following elegant and just inscription ; the same inscription ( with a sli ght alteration ) being also on a monument lately erected to his memory in the Cathedral of Norwich :
Here lie interred The earthl y Remains of The Right Reverend GEORGE HoRBE , D . D . Many Years President . of Magdalen College in Oxford , Dean of Canterbury , And late Bishop of Norwich . In whose Character
Depth of Learning , Bri ghtness of Imagination , Sanctity of Manners , and Sweetness of Temper Were united beyond the usual Lot of Mortality . With his Discourses from the Pulpit , his Hearers , Whether of the University , the City , or the Country Parish , Were edified and delihted .
g His Commentary on the Psalms will continue to be A Companion to the Closet Till the Devotion of Earth shall end in the Hallelujahs of Heaven .. Having patiently suffered under such Infirmities As seemed not due to his years , His Soul took its'fli ght from this Vale of Misery ;
To the unspeakable Loss of the Church of England , And his sorrowing Friends and Admirers , Jan . 17 th , j 792 , in the 6 ad Year ' of his Age .
Memoirs Of The Late Dr. Paul Hiffernan.
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR . PAUL HIFFERNAN .
THIS Author may well be reckoned amongst the extraordiiiariRs of modern literature—not that he excelled his cotemporaries ei-. ther in genius or learning—he derives this character from his eccentricities , and to this he was fairl y entitled from the peculiarity of his familiar habits , his studies , and his writings . Dr . Paul Hiffernan was born in the county of Dublin , in the year 1719 , and received his earl y education at a ' grammar school in that