BARKER

OR NOTICES OF THE

Reb. Samuel Parr, LL.D.

COLLECTED FROM

VARIOUS SOURCES, PRINTED AND MANUSCRIPT,

AND IN PART WRITTEN

BY E. H. BARKER, Esq.,

Of Thetford, Norfolk.

THE PRINCIPAL CONTENTS: -

VOL. II.

LONDON:

JOHN BOHN, HENRIETTA-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.
Printed by F. Skill, Swaffham.

1829.

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ADDENDA,

Respecting Warburton, Hurd, and Parr.

Bishop Bennet thus addresses Dr. Parr, Emmanuel College, Febr. 15, 1789.:-" I have bought your book with eagerness, examined it with attention, and shall bind it with elegance; and though I have received so many personal favours from Dr. HURD, that I shall ever, as a man, esteem and respect him, yet as a writer, his sneers have ever displeased me, and I am not sorry to see them attacked. Let me add, however, that he seems to think poorly of them himself by the neglect he has shewn to them, which is a sort of virtual retraction," the publication of his Correspondence with WARBURTON under his own imprimatur proves that he had never virtually retracted them, the sin of sneering was habitual, and he lived and died in the sin, " and ought in part to have disarmed the severity of your censure. I will first tell you what I think wrong: I doubt if the offence given to you by Hurd could justify your attack. I know you will tell me,

'When sense or virtue an affront endures,

'Th' affront is mine, my friend, and should be yours;'

and that the poisoned arrows he shot from his dark corner at JORTIN and LELAND, justify your knocking him down with your Herculean club. But I suspect you have been misled by idle, perhaps untrue reports, that HURD may have spoken lightly of your own performances. If such is the case indeed," and it was the case, "and the facts can be proved, I think you are fully authorized to take your revenge. This rests on a ground you know, and I do not, and therefore I say no more of it. Johnson shall speak for me- Respect is due to high place, tenderness to living reputation,' etc. etc." etc." [Yes, but HURD had shewn neither towards JORTIN and LELAND, and therefore could claim neither; PARR did not attack the Bishop, but the Scholar, and there is no high place among Scholars, who form a Republic. "I do not like the phrase prodigality of cruelty: what is prodigal cruelty? But I suppose you have either authority for the phrase, or concealed allusion in it. There looks somewhat of an inaccuracy in this sentence, 'Their titles indeed sometimes crept into the corner of 'a catalogue, and sometimes were caught skulking upon the shelf ' of a collector,'" [p. 145.] "You mean the pamphlets themselves were caught skulking. One can hardly say the titles were caught upon a shelf, and yet I believe it will do on a more diligent examination; but there is something in the sentence I do not quite