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books fome of the arguments ae illattr ations 
which have rendered thein fo celebrated and 
fo afeful. The works may theretore be faid 
to have been oceafioned by the fitwation 
which impofed upon him the duty of deliver- 
ing the lectures ; and though it would be: ab- 
urd to conclude that they might not have been 
produced under very di ffereut circum(tances, 
wet there can be .no impropriety in attribut- 
ing fuperior efficacy to a caule of which the 
operation may he fo diftinétly traced. Te 
had the happinets of acting with a brother 
tutor who \was one of the ableft and moi in- 
timate of his iriends, Dr. John Law, the pre- 
gent bifhop of Elphin, fon ef Dr. Kdmund 
aw, the iate bithop of Carlifle. The talents 
and exertions of tie tuch men of courte ren- 
dered the college extremely popular; buat the 
flourithing ttate to which the fociety attained 
while they were tutors, unequalled, perhaps, 
inthe hittory of the unive?iity, was not en- 
tirely owing to the reputation they conferred 
upon. it. Dr. Shepherd, the late Plaumian 
profetlor, fhaved with them the profits of the 
tuition, which be very efentially contributed 
to enlarge ; for, though without literature 
and without literary talents, by extenfive con- 
neétions among the great, by his plaufibility 
and attivity, he: made kr own the merits of his 
colleagues, and brought about them a crowd 
of pupils which they ‘themfelves could per- 
haps never have aflembled: It is by intrigues 
without a college, and not by talents within, 
that itis filled. Who is the public tutor is 
not in fatt a very important confideration, 
aud it has in general lefs weight even than it 
deferves. During his refidence at Cambridge, 
Dr. Paley was intimately acquainted with 
almott every man who was’ at that time cele-’ 
brated in the univerfity..’ The friend{hip that 
fubfited between him and Dr. John Law has 
already been mentioned: ‘fhrough him he 
became known to Dr. Edmuiid Tike, who was 
mafter of Peterhoute, and continued to refide 
almoft wholly. at Cambridge, after he was 
created bilhop of Carlifle in 1769. 
nection had a moft important influence on 
Dr. 
blifhment in the. church’ which induced him 
to abandon all the advantayves of his acade- 
mica] fituation, and directly ledto thole great 
preferments he enjoyed in the fatter years of 
his lite. Dr. Waring, the celebrated mathe- 
matician, and Dr. John Jebb, well known 
both by his talents and his: violence in religi- 
ous and political controverly, were among tt 
his moft particular friends. The Bithop of 
Carlifle was always: confidered as very defici- 
ent in orthodoxy, and Dr. Jebb was the mott 
notorious innovator, both in creeds and go- 
-vernment, that dilturbed the age in which he 
acted. The ftri€t union and confidence in 
which Dr. Paley lived with them, rendered 
his opinions fufpected, and prepared many 
to difcever dangerous tendencies in hismoral 
and political fpeculations when he had ac- 
- Quired reputation as. a writer, Becaufe he 
Account of the Rev. Dr. Patey, 
‘This con-’ 
Paley’s life, for he owed to it an efta-- 
609 
was 2 liberal thinker, they pronounced him 
alatitudiuarian ; forgetting or not being able 
to fee, thata philofopher , who undertakes to 
inftrnét mankind, would be indelibly ditgrac- 
ed by fanétioning’ prejudices with his appro~ 
bation, however uféful they may be deemed, 
atid however profeffional it may have been to 
fupport them. © Atter. his retur a. to the uni- 
vewtity he continued to live im it about: tén 
years. During’ this time he was rather ‘a 
hard worker than a hard ftudent. To his en- 
gagements as a public tutor, he added others 
{Fill more Nnamerous, as a private one, and by 
thefe united labours was io the receipt of a 
very confiderable income. This is ptrhaps 
the only ufeful way of {pending the untver- 
fity life. “What is called its -leifure, is the 
abfence of all exertion.» He who does not 
work for money, works for nothing elte ; for 
the mere love of reputation 1s quickly oblig- 
‘ed to yield to the drowty examples byswhich 
he is furroanded Nothing more than the 
general outlines of his oreat performances 
was produced while he refided at Cambridge, 
ior had he then conceived the defign of pub- 
lithing at'all; but what fplendid or uteful 
undertakings havebecn accomplifhed by men 
opprefted | under: the: eid Anenecs of fach @ 
fituatién ? He did not, as moft Jee has 
been the cafe, lofe the power of accomplifh- 
ing them. At no time of his ‘life was Dr- 
Paley a hard fludent according to the com- 
mon acceptation of the word, which is ufed 
rather to deferibe one who reads, than one* 
who thinks much. 
any very profound or extenlive acquaintance 
with books: they are valued not tor difcuil- 
ing and deciding upon the opinions of learn- 
ed men, but for “original and enlighteited re- 
ffeciious on the tranfaétions of human lite, 
fuchas may be fuppofed to have pafled be- 
fove‘him, or to have come to his knowledge 
without any laborious inquiry. A mafter ‘of 
Greek canons, and an- admirer of accents 
would probably have looked with contempt 
on the literary acquifitions of a man, whole 
genius enabled him to comprehend the mot 
important truths,and to teach them with a force 
and perfpicuity which will be fuught fox in 
vain in the writings of ancient or modera 
philofophers. In 1770 Dr. Paley leit col- 
lege and married. He*had at firft a fmall 
benefice in Cumberland then the living of 
Appleby in W Jeftmoreland, worth about 3001. 
a-year ; and in a fhort time he was promoted 
to a prebendal ftall in the cathedral! of Car- 
lifle, together with the living of Dalfton, 
pleafant village fituated in “the neighbeur- 
hood of that city, and between it and Rote- 
Cattle, the feat of the Bifhop. In 1782 on 
the refignation of Dr. John Law who was 
created i an Trifh Bifhop, he was‘ made arch- 
deacon of the diocefe, and not long afterwaids 
fucceeded Dr. burn, the author of the ** Jut- 
tice of the Peace,” &c. in the chancellorthip. 
All thefe preferments were beftowed on him 
either by the Bithop of Carlifle or cane 
eu: 
His works do not difplay . — 
