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think, that good parts and good 

 sense would do without learning, 

 and that learning is rather a pre- 

 judice than an improvement of 

 them. But 'tis a great mistake to 

 judge of a man's learning by the 

 show that is made of it. Mr. Chil- 

 lingworth had studied hard, and 

 digested well what he had read; 

 and so must they who hope to 

 write as well, and be as much es- 

 teemed." 



DR. ALDRICH. 



The learning of Dr. Aldrich, and 

 his skill in polite literature, were 

 evinced by his numerous publica- 

 tions, particularly of many of the 

 Greek classics, one of which he 

 generally published every year as 

 a gift to the students of his house. 

 He also wrote a system of logic for 

 the use of a pupil of his, and printed 

 it ; but he possessed so great a skill 

 in architecture and music, that his 

 excellence in either would alone 

 have made him famous to pos- 

 terity. The three sides of the 

 quadrangle of Christ Church, called 

 Peck-water Square, were designed 



by him, as was also the elegant the dean, Mr. Sampson Estwick, 



chapel of Trinity College, and the 

 church of All Saints, in the High 

 Street, to the erection \vhereof Dr. 

 Radcliffe, at his solicitation, was a 

 liberal contributor. 



Amidst a variety of honourable 

 pursuits, and the cares which the 



government of his college subjected 

 im to, Dr. Aldrich found leisure 

 to study and cultivate music, par- 

 ticularly that branch of it which 

 related both to his profession and 

 Lis office. To this end he made a 

 noble collection of church-music, 

 consisting of the works of Pales- 

 trina, Carissimi, Victoria, and other 

 Italian composers for the church, 

 and by adapting with great skill 

 and judgment English words to 

 many of their motets, enriched the 

 stores of our church, and in some 

 degree made their works our own. 



In the Pleasant Musical Com- 

 panion, printed in 1726, are two 

 catches of Dr. Aldrich, the one, 

 "Hark the bonny Christ- Church 

 Bells," the other entitled " A smok- 

 ing catch, to be sung by four men 

 smoking their pipes, not more dif- 

 ficult to sing than diverting to 

 hear." 



Dr. Aldrich's exclusive love of 

 smoking was an entertaining topic 

 of discourse in the university, con- 

 perniug which the following story, 

 among others, passed current : A 

 young student of the college once 

 finding some difficulty to bring a 

 young gentleman his chum into 

 the belief of it, laid him a wager 

 that the dean was smoking at that 

 instant, viz., about ten o'clock in 

 the morning. Away, therefore, 

 went the student to the deanery, 

 where, being admitted to the dean 

 in his study, he related the occasion 

 of his visit. To which the dean 

 replied, in perfect good humour, 

 " You see you have lost your 

 wager, for I'm not smoking, but 

 filling my pipe." The catch above 

 mentioned was made to be sung by 



then of Christ Church, and after- 

 wards of St. Paul's, and two other 

 smoking friends. Mr. Estwick is 

 plainly pointed out by the words, 

 " I prithee Sam, fill." (Oxoniana.) 



SIR WILLIAM DAWES, ARCHBISHOP 

 OF YORK. 



Sir William was the youngest son 

 of Sir John Dawes, Bart. In 1687, 

 he was sent to St. John's College, 

 from Merchant Tailor's school, but 

 his father's title and estate descend- 

 ing to him, upon the death of his 

 two elder brothers, about two years 

 after, he left Oxford, and entered 

 himself a nobleman in Catharine 

 Hall, Cambridge. " His discourses," 

 says the writer of his life, " were 

 plain and familiar, and such as 

 were best adapted to a country au- 

 dience, yet under his management 



