FOSTER. 
chofen to fuceeed Dr. Hunt. at Pinners’ Lae and in A748 
te) 
_and of the fenfe we eatin the em 
aufe of liberty, rig, and virtue, ey 
17509 Dr. Fott 
ear of hisa 
univerfity in ‘thei eir ie oe His treatife on 
s¢ The Ufefulnefs, aa ov Excellency of the ‘Chriftian 
Revelation, &c.’’ in a peepee entitled “< area 
as old as the Cr reati on.’ eral volumes of fers on 
Virtue.’ econd volume of this work was prin anaae i 
1752 goa rae he publifhed fotie nee fermon 
and ** An Acc the behaviour of the late earl of KL. 
marnock, ao his ern and on the Day of his Execu- 
tion.” He had attended ee unfortunate noble 
character, and to his ala talents as a preacher. The 
lines by Pope are well know 
s Let modeft Ee r, if he will, excel 
‘Ten metropolitans in preaching well.” 
Thofe taken from the Gentleman’s Magazine, and fup- 
ofed to have been written by Savage, are equally charac- 
teriftic and more full. 
“« But - th’ accomplifhed orator a a 
Retined his language, and his reafoning clear ; 
Thou only, Fotter, haft the pleafing art, 
At once to,charm the ear a mend the heart. i 
soa r, afterwards matter t. Paul’s {chool, and 
of Dr, 
ane as his. met ene Saad) as expe of the fenfe as 
the mof sedicione a tive.. Monotony -was a fault of 
which he was never guilty. 
quence, was grave, expreffive, free from: — ani- 
mated without being theatrical ; in fhort as 
the pulpit. He reminded us of Paul at Ce 
the attention of his auditors.”” He uf 
bribe the paffions, to play with pa Se and fo 
impofe on the underftanding. He had no ambiguities, no 
difguifes;, but, whatever ie ee ies an ee ie 
he delivered with fre wes and without referv n priv 
life he was diftinguifhed for candour and hi berality, a as 
and modefty,, great erie efs and benevolence of dilpofi- 
tion, and unaffeGted ardent piety. ° 
iog. 
Gen. Biog. Britifh 
grammatical and cla flical hivemeecs at a > aie e ac- 
uired a decided fuperi ‘over his rari 
fan Eton he went to King’ s college Cathbiidge, oF which. 
as . cationi 
n 
J 
» JoHN,. was born at Windfor, and received his 
ae = became fellow in 1748. Fle was afterwards an 
affiftantto Dr. Barnard mafter of Eton fchool, and in 176 
seal te fame office But ove his tensper 
and manners ill adapted to the fituation, he sh Sa ity 
though not till his health had been much injured b 
— which he ad experienced. 
nt 
himfelf. 
He is 
known to the learned world BY. 
accentual marks.” 
poem of Mufurus, addreffed to Leo. an elegant’ 
Latin verfion, He printed likewife a Een diiron pro- 
nounced at vet in 1754, with the title of « Enar- 
tio et Com o Doérinarum Moralium Epicuri et 
Stofcorum,’ 
Foster, Sir Micuaet, an eminent lawyer, was born 
1689, at Marlborough i in Wilthhire, where he received te 
purfued his 
ddle Temple, and was in d 
to the bar. meeting with that fuccels 
which . Beene in i courts of law, he fettled firit 
at 
own cafes, to w 
few branches of the crown law.”? This work is of the very 
§ firft order, and was abundantly fufficient to perpetuate the 
name of the author, _ is pa ee bs William Black- 
ftone, “a very great m wn law.” wt has 
been twice reprinted with alibi ‘additions by his nephew, 
the late Mr. Michael Dodfon. The health of judge a fler 
© began to decline almoft immediately on the death of 
lady in 2 585 but his life was lengthened out till ounce 
qth, 1763 e was be 
im. ‘As 
sae in private life and refpe@ed by 
udge e mai intained his ftation 
ea 
; Fosrzr, See an + Englit mathematician, born in 
North: 
