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afterwards , he was admitted to the degree ofB . A . and on the death of ' ' George I . Mr . Murray ' s Latin verses , as one of the members of the university , we ' re rewarded with the first prize . ... His oration in praise of Demosthenes was another early presage of his rising fame , but a fragment only has been preserved . This composition has been greatly praised " by Lord Monboddo , in his treatise on the ' Origin and Progress of Language .
In April , 1724 . ' Mr . Murray was admitted a student of Lincoln ' s Inn . On the 24 th of June , 1730 , he took the degree ofM . A . and left the university soon afterwards , and determined to travel into foreign parts , before he sat down to the serious prosecution of his legal studies , to which his genius , and his slender fortune as a younger son , forcibly prompted him . He travelled through France , and in Italy , at an age fitted for improvement and useful observation not between 19 and 21 a period which his great patron
; , Lord Hardwicke , in one of the numbers of the Speftator , under the modest signature of Philip Homebred , shews to be too early an age for our British youths to travel to any advantage . At Rome Mr . Murray was probably inspired and animated with the love of Ciceronean eloquence ; at Rome he was prompted to make Cicero his great example and his theme . At Tusculum , and in his perambulations over classical ground , wh y mig ht he not be emu- lous to lay the foundation of that superstructure of bright fame , which
hesoon raised after he became a member of Lincoln ' s Inn ? About the year 1730 , he addressed two letters to the young Duke of Portland , pointing out the proper objects of his studies . They have been inserted by his biographer , and do honour to his talents . The following passage contains information that cannot fail to prove interesting to the student . 'To give a new cast to Mr . Murray ' s extent of thought , and to evince that , however pleasing and bewitching the flowery fields of literature were to his well stored mind , he wisely determined not to be bewildeied therein , and earl y discovered a great veneration for the advice of Horace ,
Omne tu'itpunGum qui miscuit utile dttlci . ' He was called to the bar in Mich , term 1730 . In his career in the pursuit of legal knowledge his assiduity soon co-operated with his shining abilities . Two supporters like these , in perfect unison , not only exempted him from all pecuniary embarrassments , which slender fortune in some , and juvenile indiscretion in others , too frequensly occasion , but also conciliated the esteem , the friendshipand patronage of the great oracles of the law , who
, adorned that period , amongst whom Lord Talbot and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke were looked up to as the foster-fathers of the science . * Instead of submitting to the visual drudgery , as- ' some are pleased to deem it , of labouring in the ' chamber . s of a special pleader , Mr . Murray ' s motto seems to have been' aut Cicero ant nullus . ' Early in his legal career he studied the graces of elocution , under one of the greatest masters of the age wherein lie lived . Doctor Johnson , in his Life of Pope , says , ' his voice when
he was young was so pleasing , that Pope was called in fondness the little pghthigaleS Under this melodious and great master Mr . Murray practised elocution , and may truly be said to have brought the modulation of an harmonious voice to the highest degree of perfection . One day he was surprized by a gentleman of Lincoln ' s Inn , who could take the liberty of entering his rooms without the ceremonious introduction of a servant , in the singular act of practising the graces of a speaker at a glass , while Pope sat by in
character of a friendly preceptor . Mr . Murray on this occasion paid him the handsome compliment oi ' tues mihi Mxcenas V Notwithstanding the gaiety of Mr . Murray , we find him always mindful of his professional fame and emoluments . In 1731 he was associated with
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Review Of New Publications.
afterwards , he was admitted to the degree ofB . A . and on the death of ' ' George I . Mr . Murray ' s Latin verses , as one of the members of the university , we ' re rewarded with the first prize . ... His oration in praise of Demosthenes was another early presage of his rising fame , but a fragment only has been preserved . This composition has been greatly praised " by Lord Monboddo , in his treatise on the ' Origin and Progress of Language .
In April , 1724 . ' Mr . Murray was admitted a student of Lincoln ' s Inn . On the 24 th of June , 1730 , he took the degree ofM . A . and left the university soon afterwards , and determined to travel into foreign parts , before he sat down to the serious prosecution of his legal studies , to which his genius , and his slender fortune as a younger son , forcibly prompted him . He travelled through France , and in Italy , at an age fitted for improvement and useful observation not between 19 and 21 a period which his great patron
; , Lord Hardwicke , in one of the numbers of the Speftator , under the modest signature of Philip Homebred , shews to be too early an age for our British youths to travel to any advantage . At Rome Mr . Murray was probably inspired and animated with the love of Ciceronean eloquence ; at Rome he was prompted to make Cicero his great example and his theme . At Tusculum , and in his perambulations over classical ground , wh y mig ht he not be emu- lous to lay the foundation of that superstructure of bright fame , which
hesoon raised after he became a member of Lincoln ' s Inn ? About the year 1730 , he addressed two letters to the young Duke of Portland , pointing out the proper objects of his studies . They have been inserted by his biographer , and do honour to his talents . The following passage contains information that cannot fail to prove interesting to the student . 'To give a new cast to Mr . Murray ' s extent of thought , and to evince that , however pleasing and bewitching the flowery fields of literature were to his well stored mind , he wisely determined not to be bewildeied therein , and earl y discovered a great veneration for the advice of Horace ,
Omne tu'itpunGum qui miscuit utile dttlci . ' He was called to the bar in Mich , term 1730 . In his career in the pursuit of legal knowledge his assiduity soon co-operated with his shining abilities . Two supporters like these , in perfect unison , not only exempted him from all pecuniary embarrassments , which slender fortune in some , and juvenile indiscretion in others , too frequensly occasion , but also conciliated the esteem , the friendshipand patronage of the great oracles of the law , who
, adorned that period , amongst whom Lord Talbot and Lord Chancellor Hardwicke were looked up to as the foster-fathers of the science . * Instead of submitting to the visual drudgery , as- ' some are pleased to deem it , of labouring in the ' chamber . s of a special pleader , Mr . Murray ' s motto seems to have been' aut Cicero ant nullus . ' Early in his legal career he studied the graces of elocution , under one of the greatest masters of the age wherein lie lived . Doctor Johnson , in his Life of Pope , says , ' his voice when
he was young was so pleasing , that Pope was called in fondness the little pghthigaleS Under this melodious and great master Mr . Murray practised elocution , and may truly be said to have brought the modulation of an harmonious voice to the highest degree of perfection . One day he was surprized by a gentleman of Lincoln ' s Inn , who could take the liberty of entering his rooms without the ceremonious introduction of a servant , in the singular act of practising the graces of a speaker at a glass , while Pope sat by in
character of a friendly preceptor . Mr . Murray on this occasion paid him the handsome compliment oi ' tues mihi Mxcenas V Notwithstanding the gaiety of Mr . Murray , we find him always mindful of his professional fame and emoluments . In 1731 he was associated with