42 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP SHARP. 



the pulpit, either with respect to the mien, 

 posture, or movements ; which advantage is in 

 great measure lost to any person ivho is bound 

 perpetually to atteiid to his notes; and which is 

 not often found well improved by any person 

 who has his matter to consider of rather than 

 his manner, and is bound to watch more over 

 his words than his behaviour, and who, through 

 the entire disuse of notes, wants even those 

 seasonable restraints which they would give to 

 redundancy of action, and, perhaps, in some 

 cases, to extravagances of gesture. 



So that, upon the whole. Dr. Sharp may be 

 said to have appeared equal, if not superior, to 

 an extempore man, in the agreeableness of his 

 way in delivering himself ; besides his hav- 

 ing the benefit and security of well-digested 

 and premeditated discourses, fit to be read 

 and criticised upon in private, as well as to 

 pass the transient judgment of the world in 

 public. 



It may be added to his being a good preacher, 

 that he was likewise a constant one. For several 

 years he preached twice every Sunday in his 

 own parish, besides his lecture in the city, and 

 other occasional courses that he supplied in the 

 week days. 



He had also a very solemn way of reading 

 the Church Service, and did great justice to the 



