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of him that he was the moft natural orator‘fie ever heard. Magdalen college, Oxford. © After remaining there three 
In private life, he was of a focial, bene benevolent, and fendi dif- years, he applied himielf tesa to the ftudy of the law, 
nofition, and particularly kind aa liberal to the poor and and had made much progreis in the fcience, when the death 
diftreffed. Bifhop Burnet fays his death was an unfpeakable of his father put him im pass of a large eftate, and 
Jofs to the church ; for as he was a man of great learning, rendered it unneceflary for him to continue the purfuit. For 
f the moft eminent merit ; fo he wasa very moderate fome — he indulged himfelf in the unreftrained courfe of 
n in his te ee though with ahigh = and would life ufual among country gentlemen, till the ferious afpect of 
ig. Brit. he times brought him ‘to reflection. He was a relation to 
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whom were the lords Chefterfield and Lyttleton. He wa wa 
appointed to the place of equerry to Frederic prince of 1637, he was one of thofe who had engaged a fhip to tranft 
Wales, and ferved'as member of parliament for Truro in port themfelves to America, rather than iubmit to the tyrams 
Cornw vail. An unfortunate paffion for a young lady, who nical proceedin he of the flar-chamber. Fortunately forthe . 
was cold to his wideetieas is faid to have difordered his mind, country, they prevented from failing ; and in a thort 
and probably to have contributed to his death, which took time, the fubjoet “ay ais article began to dittings himfelf 
place when he w: oped thirty years of age. — Sis “Love by a noble reiiftance to the illegal demand of eo 
Elegies,"” by which he is known as an author, were pub- It was after the declaration of the judges in favour 
Tithed after his death by tbe earl of Chetterfield. ‘They have ising’ 8 a to levy fhip-money, that Hampden prin 4 
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ney te almott enticely, “é tranflations or imitations of patos ork the cafe was argued before the judges, eight of 
paflages in Tibullus. Tw the elegies to se friend Mr. whom decided againft him, but the right, the law, and the 
Grenville, and to his mie prove that able people were w with him, and from the neeforth he received, a 
write pathetically on real topics, and much siete is dueto he merited it, the noble appellation of the « oe 
him for the {weetnefs and elegance with which fome of the den.” From this moment he was a leading man 
fineft fentiments of Tibullus are rendered, Lives oe the worsen teft between an arbitrary king and the people; he nal S 
by Johnfon. : a fhort time before, was feareely known, became now th 
-HamMonp, eed in Geography: the S. extremity 0 f objeét of every man’s folicitude. Perfons of all elaffes be 
Kay See onesie: he N. rin ifie oceans N. lat. late 59° hd gan to enquire who and what he was, that durft, sy oft 
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