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picture drawn by him of his friend, Alexander Knox, in the
Introduction, is particularly attractive. The Rev. T. C.
Robertson, in his Tract, How shall we Conform to the
Liturgy? p.69. justly says, "The late respected Bishop Jebb,
whom, notwithstanding certain connexions, and his share in
certain speculations, no one would consider a puritan or
latitudinarian."
P.332. "If you have never read Roger North's Lives of Lord
Keeper Guilford and his other two brothers, let me recommend
them to you," &c.
These two volumes of biography are so quaint and amusing in
their manner, and so full of anecdote, observation, and
instruction, that they are not surpassed in this branch of
our literature. Mr. Welsby, in his excellent volume, Lives
of Eminent Judges, p.57, says, "That most amusing and
therefore best of all biographies that we have any knowledge
of - the Life of Lord Guilford." On Lord Guilford see
Campbells' Lives of the Chancellors, vol.iii. p.429; on
North's Examen, praised by Southey, see Retrosp. Rev.
vol.vii. p.183-217. See also Coleridge's Literary Remains,
i. p.237. Roger North's Mem. of Music has been lately
published from MS. and our learned friend Mr. Crossley of
Manchester, possesses the original MS. of the Life of Lord
Guilford, in its authentic and enlarged state, among his
other curious treasures of literature, which he well
understands and enjoys.
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