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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
last letter on the subject , which was a masterl y defence of the Hutchinsonian position . - In 1753 he was so desirous to illustrate the merit of Mr . Hutchinson ( whose works , in his opinion , were not only received without encouragement , but even opposed without due examination ) , that he published " A fair , candid , and impartial State of the Case between Sir Isaac Newton and Hutchinson which
Mr . . In is shewn , how far a System of Ph ysics is capable of Mathematical-Demonstration ; how far Sir Isaac ' s , as such a system , ' has that Demonstration ; and , consequently , what regard Mr . Hutchinson ' s claim may deserve to have paid to it . " . ' In the following he produced an ironical publicationthe
year , peculiarity of . which soon discovers its nameless author . It was entitled " . Spicilegium Shuckfordianum ; or , a Nosegay for the Critics . Eeine some Choice Flowers of Modern Theology and Criticism gathered out pf Dr . Shuckford ' s supplemental Discourse on the Creation and Fall of Man . Not forgetting Bishop Garnet ' s Vatikra . "
He had now , entered into holy orders , and became a frequent and earnest preacher . His labours , however , were depreciated b y the invidious application of a name : for die Hutchinsonian was said to possess more zeal than knowledge , more presumption "than humility . Hence a pamphlet was published in 175 6 by a member of the University , entitled " A Word to the Hutchinsonians ; - or , Remarks on three extrabefore
ordinary Sermons , lately preached the University of Oxford , by the Rev . Dr . Patten , the Rev . Mr . Wetherell , and the Rev . Mr . Home . " This did not remain long unanswered . Mr . Horne replied in " An Apology for certain Gentlemen in . the University of Oxford , aspersed in a late anonymous Pamphlet , with a Postscript concerning another Pamphlet lately published bthe RevMrHeathcote Thl
y . . . " earnestness of this defence , which displayed his own sincerity , did not , however , convince the antagonist ; and there appeared soori afterward " True Censure no Aspersion ; or , A Vindication of a late seasonable Admonition , called , A Word to the Hutchinsonians . In a Lett-r to the Rev . Mr . Horne , " -
From-scenes of controversy we return to those of academical employment , when we find Mr . Home , in 1758 , junior Proctor of the University ; an office which he adorned by the amiable connexion ol ' mildness with authority . ¦ . At the expiration of the Proctorshi p he took the degree of B . D . In 1760 he published " A View of Mr . Kennicott ' s Method of corthe Hebrew Textwith three
recting , Queries formed thereupon , and humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Learned and Christian World ; " in which he endeavours to prove that Divine uffeaual to the " business in which he was engaged . in 17 6 4 . he took the Degree of D . D . As yet we find him advanced to no conspicuous station . lie never , indeed , obtained . 1 parochial benefice . But on the death of Dr . Jentic / President of Magdalen College , he was elected b y the Society to succeed' him in that important station on the zj-xli of lamia rv 1 - > 6 S .
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Life Of The Right Reverend George Horne,
last letter on the subject , which was a masterl y defence of the Hutchinsonian position . - In 1753 he was so desirous to illustrate the merit of Mr . Hutchinson ( whose works , in his opinion , were not only received without encouragement , but even opposed without due examination ) , that he published " A fair , candid , and impartial State of the Case between Sir Isaac Newton and Hutchinson which
Mr . . In is shewn , how far a System of Ph ysics is capable of Mathematical-Demonstration ; how far Sir Isaac ' s , as such a system , ' has that Demonstration ; and , consequently , what regard Mr . Hutchinson ' s claim may deserve to have paid to it . " . ' In the following he produced an ironical publicationthe
year , peculiarity of . which soon discovers its nameless author . It was entitled " . Spicilegium Shuckfordianum ; or , a Nosegay for the Critics . Eeine some Choice Flowers of Modern Theology and Criticism gathered out pf Dr . Shuckford ' s supplemental Discourse on the Creation and Fall of Man . Not forgetting Bishop Garnet ' s Vatikra . "
He had now , entered into holy orders , and became a frequent and earnest preacher . His labours , however , were depreciated b y the invidious application of a name : for die Hutchinsonian was said to possess more zeal than knowledge , more presumption "than humility . Hence a pamphlet was published in 175 6 by a member of the University , entitled " A Word to the Hutchinsonians ; - or , Remarks on three extrabefore
ordinary Sermons , lately preached the University of Oxford , by the Rev . Dr . Patten , the Rev . Mr . Wetherell , and the Rev . Mr . Home . " This did not remain long unanswered . Mr . Horne replied in " An Apology for certain Gentlemen in . the University of Oxford , aspersed in a late anonymous Pamphlet , with a Postscript concerning another Pamphlet lately published bthe RevMrHeathcote Thl
y . . . " earnestness of this defence , which displayed his own sincerity , did not , however , convince the antagonist ; and there appeared soori afterward " True Censure no Aspersion ; or , A Vindication of a late seasonable Admonition , called , A Word to the Hutchinsonians . In a Lett-r to the Rev . Mr . Horne , " -
From-scenes of controversy we return to those of academical employment , when we find Mr . Home , in 1758 , junior Proctor of the University ; an office which he adorned by the amiable connexion ol ' mildness with authority . ¦ . At the expiration of the Proctorshi p he took the degree of B . D . In 1760 he published " A View of Mr . Kennicott ' s Method of corthe Hebrew Textwith three
recting , Queries formed thereupon , and humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Learned and Christian World ; " in which he endeavours to prove that Divine uffeaual to the " business in which he was engaged . in 17 6 4 . he took the Degree of D . D . As yet we find him advanced to no conspicuous station . lie never , indeed , obtained . 1 parochial benefice . But on the death of Dr . Jentic / President of Magdalen College , he was elected b y the Society to succeed' him in that important station on the zj-xli of lamia rv 1 - > 6 S .