EXTRACTS of the above description, containing generally statements which interested him, or criticisms and principles which met his approbation, might be multiplied to a great extent from his Common-Place Books; indicating, from the dates of the works referred to, the colour of the ink, and the character of the hand-writing, an industry pervading a considerable portion of his lengthened existence. He drew, indeed, his amusement and his instruction from a wide circle of knowledge. Like the laborious bee, he found honey almost every where. Scarcely one of the numerous volumes, which passed through his hands, failed in one way or other to pay tribute to his retired, pious, and benevolent feelings.* It is curious, indeed, in such selections, uniformly harmonising in spirit, to trace passages sometimes didactically influencing his conduct, and sometimes historically as it were recording it.

Independently of a New Version of Daniel, which he left in a state of great forwardness, and his very copious Notes gathered from the ablest Commentators upon the whole of the Old and New Testament, and closely piled together in his huge interfoliations, t his MSS. exhibit valuable Annotations on the Psalms and exten

• Nihil enim legit quod non excerperet. Dicere enim solebat, Nullum esse librum tam malum, ut non aliquâ parte prodesset.'—(Plin. Ep. III. 5.) Of the diversified range of his reading some estimate may be formed from the subjoined list of books, forming only a very small part of what might have been adduced: Carter's Epictetus, Jackson's Empire of Morocco, Milner's Winchester, Anecdotes of the Earl of Chatham, Cumberland's Memoirs, Dugdale's St. Paul and Durham Cathedral, Green's Worcester, Sir William Forbes' Life of Beattie, Sir William Jones' Works, Patiniana, North's Life of the Lord Keeper Guildford, Bowyer's Miscellanies, Lysons' Environs of London, Carlyle's Specimens of Arabic Poetry, Dr. Horsley's various Works, Wall on Infant Baptism, Walter Scott's Dryden, Herculanensia, The Museum Criticum, Notes on the Septuagint, Dr. Buchanan's Indian Publications, Mr. Dibdin's Volumes on Bibliography, Burney's unpublished Letters of Bentley, &c. &c.

+ I will only specify Two Folios of Beza's N. T. 1582, Four Quartos of the O. T. quite full, and Nine Octavos of Anselm Bayly's O. T. English and Hebrew.

sive portions of Arnald on the Apocrypha. Upon many classics likewise, and works of classical character (Franklin's Lucian, Whitaker De Motu Civico, Steevens and Farmer on Shakspeare, Granger's Biographical History of England, &c. &c.) he has levied large contributions: and the fly-leaves of numbers of his volumes contain useful and crowded notices. Dr. Clarke has recorded his suggestion relative to the Tomb of Alexander,' now in the British Museum; and even Porson's Adversaria, which only made their appearance in 1812, when Dr. Zouch was in his seventy-sixth year (and the volume might not immediately reach his hands) has furnished materials for extraction from it's pages 73, 92, 118, 127, 244, and 316-the very last in the volume!

This, which however does not appear to have interfered with his devotional preparations for eternity, was indeed to "die with harness on his back."

"With these conversing, he forgot all time:"

and rendered the infirmity which in later years beset him, of deafness, more cheerful than is usually the case. With the mute society of the shelf he needed but the eye as the medium of communication in this, happier than Milton (who yet, though he complains in poetry of his blindness, P. L. III. 40-50, in his Defensio Secunda piously consoles himself for the privation), that he was not dependent upon the optics of others.

After perusing the above, I think no man can rise up without being disposed to pronounce that, as far as is consistent with human infirmity,

"Truly, this was a good man."

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A SERMON,

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OF THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHER IN GOD,

WILLIAM

Lord Bishop of CHESTER;

HELD AT RICHMOND, IN YORKSHIRE, AUGUST 21, 1789.

PUBLISHED AT HIS LORDSHIP'S REQUEST.

(Newcastle upon Tyne, 1789.)

VOL. I.

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As a proof of Dr. Zouch's accurate discrimination in selecting his Biographical Subjects, the reader will peruse with satisfaction the following Critique on the Character and Writings of Sir George Wheler, as a traveller; in a letter to the Editor, by EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE, L.L.D., Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, &c.

MY DEAR WRANGHAM,

The news that you are about to publish a Memoir of Sir George Wheler, by so eminent a scholar as Dr. Zouch, is as gratifying to me and to all your friends in this University, as it will be to the literary world in general. There is not perhaps any part of English biography so destitute of information as that which relates to this accomplished, amiable, and I will add, illustrious traveller. Very little more at present is known concerning him, than what we gather from the narrative of his Journey into Greece,' published after his return, first by his companion Dr. Spon of Lyons, and subsequently by himself. You ask me to

state my opinion of his merits as a traveller, and the character which I had formed of his writings, from my own personal observations, after comparing his descriptions with the places and many of the objects referred to upon the spot. I shall do this with the greater willingness, because, during my travels in Greece, I had Wheler's book often in my hands: and I regret very much that, when I visited Jerusalem, I was not provided with the curious little tract upon the "Primitive Churches" published by him after he became Prebendary of Durham; a work now become rarė, but admirably calculated for aiding the researches of travellers, who may wish to compare the present appearance of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre with the account given by Eusebius † of the original structure.

*

Respecting the merits of Wheler, as a traveller, there can be but one opinion among those who have had an opportunity of

*An Account of the Churches or Places of Assembly of the Primitive Christians, &c. by Sir George Wheler,' Lond. 1689.

+ De Vitâ Constant. Lib. 3.