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Daring his residence in the university, he was greatly 

 celebrated for his learning and parts. Bishop Hacket, 

 in his Life of the lord keeper Williams, page 175, men- 

 tions a strange circumstance of him ; which for the sin- 

 gular manner of relating it, take in his own words : 

 " Mr. George Herbert, being praelector in the rheto- 

 " rick school at Cambridge, anno 1618, passed by those 

 ic fluent orators that domineered in the pulpits of 

 t( ATHENS and ROME, and insisted to read upon an 

 ** oration of King JAMES : which he analysed; shewed 

 i4 the continuity of the parts ; the propriety of the 

 " phrase; the height, and power of it to move affec- 

 " tions ; the style, UTTERLY UNKNOWN TO THE AN- 

 u CLIENTS, who could not conceive what kingly elo- 

 " quence was ; in respect of which, those noted De- 

 c magogi were but hirelings and triobolarj/ rhetori- 

 u ticians." 



A collection of religious poems, entitled the Temple y 

 and a small tract, The Priest to the Temple ; or, the 

 Country Parson his Character, with his Remains y are 

 all ot his works that are generally known to be in print : 

 but I have lately learned, that, not many months before 

 his decease, Herbert translated Cornaro's book Of tern* 

 perance and long life ; and that the same is to be found 

 printed in 12mo. Cambridge, 1639; together with a 

 translation, by another hand, of the Hygiaslicon of 

 Leonard Lessius. Among Herbert's Remains is a col- 

 lection of foreign proverbs translated into English, well 

 worthy of a place, in some future edition, with those 

 of Ray. Lord Bacon dedicated to him a Translation of 

 certain of the Psalms into English metre. Vide Lord 

 Bacon's Works, 4to. Vol. III. page 163, 



In this life, occasion is taken by the author to intro- 

 duce an Account of an intimate friend of Herbert, Mr. 

 Nicholas Farrar, and of a religious establishment in 

 his house, little less than monastic : from which, and 

 some scattered memoirs concerning it, the following ac- 

 count is compiled. 



This singularly eminent person was the son of a 

 wealthy East India merchant, and was born in London 

 in the year 1591, As the age of six years, for the signs 



