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800.) 

Not by any Honours in the Church, but by 
deep and laborious Refearches 
Into the Treafures of ‘Divine Learning: 
The Fruits of which are preferved in two in- 
valuable Lexicons, 
Wherein the original Text of the Old and 
New Teftament is iaterpreted 
With extraordinary Light and Truth. 
Reader! if thou art thankful ‘to God that: 
, fuch a Man lived, 
Pray for the Chriftiais World, 
That neither the Pride of falfe Learning, nor 
the Growthwof Unbelief, 
May fo far prevail ae 
As to render his pious Labours in any Degree 
_ ineffectual. 
He lived in Chriftian Charity, 
And departed in Faith and Hope 
On the arft day of February 1797, 
In the 69th Year of his Age. 
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ACCOUNT of BisHOP PARKHURST. ° 
ISHOP Joun Parkuurst, collate- 
ral anceftor of the Jate John: Park- 
hurft, the fubject of the preceding biogra- 
phy, was a perfon of great efteem and ve- 
neration in the time of Queen Elizabeth. 
He was born in the year 1510, at the be- 
ginning of King Henry the Eighth’s reign, 
and became a Proteitant about the age of 
twenty-fix or twenty feven. In the bloody 
days of Queen Mary, he, with many other. 
Englith Proteftants, fled into Switzerland, 
and continued an exile during many years 
at Zurich. He returned to England on 
Queen Elizabeth’s acceffion to the throne, 
and was confecrated Bifhop of Norwich ' 
in 1560. He was a zealous advetfary and 
a fevere fatirift of the Papifts, and efpeci- 
ally-of that atrocioully favage wretch Bon- 
ner; a particular friend of John Fox, the 
martyrologift, and the tutor of Bifhop 
Jewel, who becaitie more famous than 
himfelf: he was alfo one of the. tran{- 
Jators of what was called “* the Bifliops’ 
Bible. 
_ With refpe& to the Puritanical contro- 
verfy, Bifhop Parkhurft was moderate; 
and was by fome regarded as too favoura- 
ble to thole fectaries. He was, however, 
a moft determined Proteftant; and, in the 
worft of times, a fteady oppofer of the er- 
rorsand fuperftitions of Popery. He was ” 
a poet, and not a bad one for the age in 
which-he hved. He wrote in Latin; and 
many of his poems, relating to the hiftory 
and perfons of thole times, are confequently 
curious. + 
The title-page of his book of poems is 
as follows; 
2 
Account of Bifhop Parkburft.. 
Johannis ) 
Parkhurftti 
/ Ludicra five Epigrammata 
Juvenilia. . 
Londini : 
Apud Johannem Dayum, Typographum, 
An, €573. 
Bifhop Parkhurft was interred in the 
cathedral church at Norwich, where there 
is a monument to his memory, with a La- 
tin infcription, whichis now almof effaced 
by time, but which may be found in 
‘* Browne’s Antiquities of Norwich.” By 
the infcription it appears, that he was bora 
at Guildford in Surrey, educated -at Ox. 
ford, and died the 2d of February r574. 
M. R. 
ee ‘ 
BRIEF SKETCHES of LIVING FRENCH 
AUTHORS. - (Continued from our lof 
Number.) i 
 KIVALANT., 
ie fcale by which the talents of this 
French poet are meafured, his little 
tranflations, with which the Nouvellifte Li- 
teraire, the Fournal des Mufes, and other 
fimilar channels of fame abound, have oc- 
cafioned his friends to advife him hereafter 
to fly with his own wings, to work upea 
f{ornething of his own invention, and not’ 
any longer content himé&lf with being a 
copyift of thofé of others, not even of 
Horace’s, which have been put into a 
French drefs already fo prettily by Darn- 
miger, &c. Who is the Tyro from 
rhetoric and the college, who has not. in- 
confiderately ftriven to dig into this mine? 
Moft men would rather chufe to evince even 
a moderate creative genius, than be the 
creature of other’s ideas, however exalted. 
LABEAUME, | | 
Talents and modefty are an affemblace. 
too rare not to deferve praife when they 
meet in the fame perfon. This union 
‘nowever is remarked in C, Jabeaume, 
among whofe pleafing produétions, with 
which he has enriched French literature, 
may be numbered his La Moefe de Guide, 
Le Deluge, Léopoldine, and his Peregrinus 
Protée, tranflated from Wieland. 
ANTIGNac. { 
The Jove of pleafure, the neceffity of 
paying his {cot in poetical coin at the 
brilliant literary entertainments which he 
is allowed to be partaker of, compelled 
him to become a votary to a daughter of 
Mnemofyne. He has not wooed the 
Mufe in vain ; fhe has infpired this young. 
writer with the defirable, but rave talent, 
of 
sor 
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