QF DR. GEORGE HORNE, (LATE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH.) WITH NOTES AND A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. "The world is like an inn; for there [Written by BP. HORNE at an Inn.] "The writing in Aphorisms hath many excellent virtues, whereto the writing in method doth not approach, for Aphorisms, except they be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off-recitals of example are cut off -discourse of connection and order is cut off-descriptions of practice are cut off-so there remaineth nothing to fill the Aphorisms but some good quantity of observation; and, therefore, no man can suffice, nor in reason will attempt, to write Aphorisms, but he that is sound and grounded."-BACON. LONDON JOHN W. PARKER AND SON, WEST STRAND. M DCCC LVII. Br 6308.129.5 187 June 27. "BISHOP HORNE was a person of eminence for his learning, eloquence, and piety, with as much wit and force of expression as were consistent with a temper so much corrected and sweetened by devotion. "If some friend had followed him about with a pen and ink to note down his 'sayings' and 'observations,' they might have furnished us a 'collection' like that which Mr. Boswell has given to the public, but frequently of a superior quality, because the subjects which fell in his way were occasionally of a higher nature."-A Prefatory Epistle to W. STRANGE, Esq. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. DR. GEORGE HORNE, late Bishop of Norwich, President (for some years) of Magdalen College, Oxford, and Dean of Canterbury, was born in 1730, at Otham, a village near Maidstone in Kent. His father was the Rev. Samuel Horne, described as "a very learned and respectable clergyman, who so determined to preserve the integrity of his mind against all temptations from worldly advantage, that he was heard to say, 'He had rather be a toad-eater to a mountebank, than flatter any great man against his conscience."" He married a daughter of Bowyer Hendley, Esq., by whom he had seven children-four sons and three daughters. The Bishop was the second, who, under his father's tuition, made a rapid progress in Greek and Latin. He was placed at a school at Maidstone, where he continued two years; when a Maidstone Scholarship in University College becoming vacant, the master recommended his going (young as he was) directly to College. He was admitted to University College on the 5th March, |