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Article THE LIFE OF BISHOP WARBURTON. ← Page 4 of 4 Article CURIOUS ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER. Page 1 of 7 →
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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
he was no party-man , and was the advocate for toleration . It was not his manner to court the good opinion of our dissenters . But he had nothing of prejudice or ill-will toward them : he conversed familiarly with such of them as came in his way ; and had a friendship with some of their noted ministers ;* who did not then , as most of them do HOW , glory in Socinian impieties , or indulge themselves in rancorous invectives against the established church . He was a
warm friend , an affectionate husband , and a tender father . The whole of his life was expended in the duties of his exalted situation ; and this adorned , to the last , with the eminent qualifications of a Christian bishop and a pious divine .
Curious Account Given By The Dumb Philosopher.
CURIOUS ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER .
[ CONCLUDED rnoM oun LAST . ] SINCE my last , I have spent a few hours , in endeavouring at a translation of the allegorical manuscript I mentioned in a former letter , entitled , < a Description of the Empire of Pathia ; ' of which , it is shortI send a .
as , you copy Under the title were the following words of Cicero , instead of a motto : ' Duplex est vis animorum . Una pars in appetdu posita est , qua hominem hue , ct il / uc nrpit . Altera in ralione , qua ; doccl ct explanal , quid faciendum , fugi-. ndumque-sit . Itafil , ut ratio prasit , appelitus / ihrpinfat'Vpf .
' The Empire of Pathia is a country which abounds in every thing that can be subservient to the necessity , convenience , and ornament of human life . Cephale , the metropolis of this empire , of an oval form , is the residence of its Empress , who , for her extraordinary , insi" ! it and prudence in the management of the public affairs , as -welt as her own private eeconcmy , obtained of her different subjects
the additional name of Rcasan . Baron Will , first Minister ofSfate to the Empress , was a nobleman better qualified for execution than counsel ; and who , though he was too basts and capricious to wei g h matters duly , or to take any thing under mature deliberation , was The more expeditious and dexterous in the performance of his duty . With these qualities , he was firmly fixed in the Empress ' s favo ' ur ; for , as she was herself of a penetrating sagacity , in all her counsels , she had no farther occasion for his service " than to see them duly executed .
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The Life Of Bishop Warburton.
he was no party-man , and was the advocate for toleration . It was not his manner to court the good opinion of our dissenters . But he had nothing of prejudice or ill-will toward them : he conversed familiarly with such of them as came in his way ; and had a friendship with some of their noted ministers ;* who did not then , as most of them do HOW , glory in Socinian impieties , or indulge themselves in rancorous invectives against the established church . He was a
warm friend , an affectionate husband , and a tender father . The whole of his life was expended in the duties of his exalted situation ; and this adorned , to the last , with the eminent qualifications of a Christian bishop and a pious divine .
Curious Account Given By The Dumb Philosopher.
CURIOUS ACCOUNT GIVEN BY THE DUMB PHILOSOPHER .
[ CONCLUDED rnoM oun LAST . ] SINCE my last , I have spent a few hours , in endeavouring at a translation of the allegorical manuscript I mentioned in a former letter , entitled , < a Description of the Empire of Pathia ; ' of which , it is shortI send a .
as , you copy Under the title were the following words of Cicero , instead of a motto : ' Duplex est vis animorum . Una pars in appetdu posita est , qua hominem hue , ct il / uc nrpit . Altera in ralione , qua ; doccl ct explanal , quid faciendum , fugi-. ndumque-sit . Itafil , ut ratio prasit , appelitus / ihrpinfat'Vpf .
' The Empire of Pathia is a country which abounds in every thing that can be subservient to the necessity , convenience , and ornament of human life . Cephale , the metropolis of this empire , of an oval form , is the residence of its Empress , who , for her extraordinary , insi" ! it and prudence in the management of the public affairs , as -welt as her own private eeconcmy , obtained of her different subjects
the additional name of Rcasan . Baron Will , first Minister ofSfate to the Empress , was a nobleman better qualified for execution than counsel ; and who , though he was too basts and capricious to wei g h matters duly , or to take any thing under mature deliberation , was The more expeditious and dexterous in the performance of his duty . With these qualities , he was firmly fixed in the Empress ' s favo ' ur ; for , as she was herself of a penetrating sagacity , in all her counsels , she had no farther occasion for his service " than to see them duly executed .