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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
LIFE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE HORNE ,
LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH .
[ By the Rev . HEN . J TODD , Minor Canon of Canterbury Cathedral . ]
GEORGE HORNE , the- twenty-first Dean of Canterbury , was born in 1730 , at Otham , in the county of Kent , of which parish his father , the Rev . Samuel Horrie , was rector ; under whose care he Continued till he was about thirteen years of age . He was then sent "to Maidstone school , the master of which was the Rev . Deodatus Bye , who observedthat " he was fitter to from school than to come to it . "
, go He continued , however , under his tuition two years , and increased the approbation which his early abilities had obtained . In March 1745-6 he was admitted at University College , Oxford , havino- been previously chosen to a scholarship from Maidstone school . In October 1749 he took the degree of B . A . In the following year he was elected to the Fellowship of Magdalen College , which is
appropriated to a native of Kent . In the university he was a laborious student , and gave many an elegant testimony of the various learning which he acquired . It was more especially his aim to render the attainments of polite literature subservient to the knowledge and illustration of the Scriptures . He considered his time best loyed whenwith the learned companion of his
emp , earliest studies , " he " raised his thoughts from the poets and orators of Greece and Rome , to the contemplation of the great Creator ' s wisdom in his word , and in his works . " He became critically acquainted with the Hebrew language , and studied successfully the Fathers of the
Church . . , Soon after he had attained the Fellowship , he began to attract particular observation , by the warmth with which he espoused the philosophy of Mr . Hutchinson . In 1751 he commenced an attack upon the Newtonian system , and published ( but without his name ) " The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero ' s Somnium Scipionis explained ; A Brief Attempt to demonstrate that the Newtonian System is
peror , fectly agreeable to the Notions of the wisest Ancients ; and that Mathematical Princip les are the only sure ones . " This pamphlet does not consist merely of formal argument ; it displays remarkable humour . In 1753 he took the degree of M . A . In the same year he engaged in a controversy on the subject of the Cherubim , in the Gentleman ^ Magazineunder the signature of Ingenuus-in reply to Candidas . His
, , remarks were intended to prove that " the Cherubim was a representation of the Trinity . " In the course of the dispute , however , he was treated rather unhandsomely by the editor , who declined'publishing his VOL . I 1 . K-k
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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
LIFE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE HORNE ,
LATE BISHOP OF NORWICH .
[ By the Rev . HEN . J TODD , Minor Canon of Canterbury Cathedral . ]
GEORGE HORNE , the- twenty-first Dean of Canterbury , was born in 1730 , at Otham , in the county of Kent , of which parish his father , the Rev . Samuel Horrie , was rector ; under whose care he Continued till he was about thirteen years of age . He was then sent "to Maidstone school , the master of which was the Rev . Deodatus Bye , who observedthat " he was fitter to from school than to come to it . "
, go He continued , however , under his tuition two years , and increased the approbation which his early abilities had obtained . In March 1745-6 he was admitted at University College , Oxford , havino- been previously chosen to a scholarship from Maidstone school . In October 1749 he took the degree of B . A . In the following year he was elected to the Fellowship of Magdalen College , which is
appropriated to a native of Kent . In the university he was a laborious student , and gave many an elegant testimony of the various learning which he acquired . It was more especially his aim to render the attainments of polite literature subservient to the knowledge and illustration of the Scriptures . He considered his time best loyed whenwith the learned companion of his
emp , earliest studies , " he " raised his thoughts from the poets and orators of Greece and Rome , to the contemplation of the great Creator ' s wisdom in his word , and in his works . " He became critically acquainted with the Hebrew language , and studied successfully the Fathers of the
Church . . , Soon after he had attained the Fellowship , he began to attract particular observation , by the warmth with which he espoused the philosophy of Mr . Hutchinson . In 1751 he commenced an attack upon the Newtonian system , and published ( but without his name ) " The Theology and Philosophy in Cicero ' s Somnium Scipionis explained ; A Brief Attempt to demonstrate that the Newtonian System is
peror , fectly agreeable to the Notions of the wisest Ancients ; and that Mathematical Princip les are the only sure ones . " This pamphlet does not consist merely of formal argument ; it displays remarkable humour . In 1753 he took the degree of M . A . In the same year he engaged in a controversy on the subject of the Cherubim , in the Gentleman ^ Magazineunder the signature of Ingenuus-in reply to Candidas . His
, , remarks were intended to prove that " the Cherubim was a representation of the Trinity . " In the course of the dispute , however , he was treated rather unhandsomely by the editor , who declined'publishing his VOL . I 1 . K-k