written in the blood and tears of her children, attest the felicity of the experiment!

But why is the maxim itself, even in the abstract and without reference to the principle of expediency, to be conceded to these austere Anti-Aristocratists, in the face of universal authority? Society, in all ages, has agreed to give honour to the descendents of the wise and the

*Fortes creantur fortibus, et bonis ;

Est in juvencis, est in equis patrum
Virtus, &c.

Quotations might, with ease, be multiplied indefinitely to a similar purport. The very vocabulary of antiquity, in it's & Ag1501, Optimates, &c. involves the same doctrine. This Eyeva was by Mr. Burke happily denominated, "the Corinthian capital of polished society." But then the qualification attached in the text must be carefully attended to: otherwise, an extract made by Dr. Zouch himself from Balguy's and Warburton's letters in MS.' instructs us in the consequences." Mr. Hurd predicted, that commerce with the Great (I mean the little Great, not the

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Jupiter

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pauci quos æquus amavit

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those few, that I for my part would ever condescend to rank in the number of my friends) would give our amiable friend M**** a wrong turn. It has done so. When I first knew him, his solicitude was only for a competency to pursue his studies with ease and convenience. I applauded these views, and consequently urged him to accept the living of * * ***. Well; I thought him possessed of what he wanted, and urged him to lay aside his poetry, and apply himself to the studies of his own profession. He promised, he would.' Instead of that, he went to Hanover without call or occasion. I saw him on his return, and then revived the conversation of returning to Cambridge to his studies; but to my surprise found he was now on a new scent, and projecting to be made Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The plain English of all this is, that instead of qualifying himself to deserve preferment, he is beginning (with the mob of his concurrents) at the other end-to get it first, and to deserve it afterward as God shall give him grace. I am sorry my hopes of him should end, just in that place where his own begin. I am not angry at him, but at the world, whose poison has infected so fair and candid a mind. (No. XXXIV.)

brave, so long as the claim remains unforfeited by personal misconduct *.

To such we render more than mere respect,

Whose actions say that they respect themselves.

Wherever degeneracy occurs, a good man, without renouncing his political creed upon the subject, in his reverence for the still more important aristocracy of morals refuses to prostrate himself before the profligate or the frivolous.

Incipit ipsorum contra illos stare parentum

Nobilitas, claramque facem præferre pudendis. (Juv. VIII.) But when well-won dignity acts as a torch, not to display the shame but to kindle the rivalry of posterity, we justly venerate the inheritor of an illustrious name; whether conferred by his grateful country on the guardian of her religion, the advocate of her liberties, or the champion of her throne. Dos est magna, parentium virtus; and the children of Bishop Watson, while personally respectable, have in right of their progenitor a claim upon the respect of Christendom.

THOMAS, son of the Rev. Charles Zouch, M. A., Vicar of Sandal Magna near Wakefield, was born September 12, 1787. He received under the care of his father, whom he has characterised as "a person truly eminent for his piety and his learning," the rudiments of

*Plus gratice ac auctoritatis habere solet quæ in sobole conspicitur, avita, hæreditaria, et quasi à majoribus traducta virtus. (Bernard. Vit. Usserii.)

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MS. fragment. Upon a passage likewise in Walton's Lives,' in which Hooker is delineated as watchful and charitable to the sick, diligent to prevent lawsuits, still urging his parishioners and neighbours to bear with each other's infirmities and live in love, and always keep themselves fit to receive the communion, and then to receive it often, at his entrance or departure out of any house usually speaking to the whole family and blessing them by name; Dr. Zouch observes (in a note) that "his much-honoured parent, in the instances of duty here related, literally trod in the steps of good Mr. Hooker a bright example of primæval piety, adorning all the acquirements

of

his early education. The office of tuition subsequently devolved, first upon the Rev. Benjamin Wilson, and next on the Rev. John Clarke, successively Masters of the Free Grammar School of Wakefield; with the latter of whom Mr. Zouch, during the two years immediately preceding his removal to the University, accurately read the greater part of the Greek and Roman Poets. In return for this assiduous attention, the affectionate pupil after an interval of upward of forty years published, in 1798, a short Memoir in 4to, entitled, The Good Schoolmaster, exemplified in the Character of the Rev. John Clarke, M. A., &c.'* with the hope of "making his name known to posterity." By one paragraph however of this work, condemning that gentleman's "scrupulous exactness" in correcting the exercises of his scholars, he incurred (perhaps, not unjustly) some critical animadversion. To the writer of these pages it appears scarcely possible for a teacher, in his detection of error or solecism, to be too minutely particular.

In 1754, he had the misfortune to lose that "son's best friend," his father. The latter part of the following

of a scholar and a divine with an unblemished sanctity of life and man

ners.

Nil me pæniteat sanum patris hujus.

(Hor.)"

These are, indeed, delightful remembrances; and little has that son deserved the blessing of a good father, who does not treasure them in his heart's core even to the last moment of his existence !

* In a letter addressed to Dr. Zouch upon the subject of this publication, by an illustrious scholar, it is observed :—" If I mistake not, Bennet Langton, the friend of Dr. Johnson, told me more than twenty years ago, that Mr. Clarke once read with his scholars the very difficult poem of Lycophro.' The description you have given of his teaching is more eloquent, and more discriminating, even than the panegyric which Dr. Barford pronounced in Latin upon his schoolmaster, Dr. George." The same competent authority has commended, in no feeble terms, his verses upon the King's Marriage and the Peace of Paris.

Epitaph, inscribed on a tomb-stone in the churchyard of Sandal, proves that the lapse of half a century had not effaced from his mind those filial feelings, which are the loveliest part of our imperfect nature.

His elder brother Henry, however, appears to have supplied to him all that was reparable of this heavy calamity. Whether he drew up for his use the following paper, entitled 'Mr. Zouch's Directions for Study,' or not, cannot now be well ascertained: but, as it may still supply some useful hints to a young man commencing his college-career, it is here subjoined.

'Read authors according to a method. Be particularly cautious to read them slowly, and if possible, never pass over a difficulty; but stop till by your own endeavours, or the instruction of others, you have overcome it. Thus will you proceed in your studies with equal pleasure and improvement.

'Read a chapter in the Greek Testament every day. Let this rule be invariably observed.

Spend very few evenings in company.

'Read, with critical accuracy, the following books in the

course of the ensuing year, exclusive of all due attention to your

Lectures: Demosthenes, and Select Orations of Cicero; Select Tragedies of Sophocles, and Euripides; Juvenal, and Persius. Horace will be always in your hands.

Litera

Be particularly accurate in all your compositions. scripta manet. Propose to yourself subjects for Themes and Declamations. Your stile can only be formed by continual use. Occasionally read some of our best English Poets, whenever you find yourself fatigued with more severe studies.

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Always attend Lectures, whether classical or philosophical. If you omit them once or twice, you will be at a loss to proceed with your Lecturer.

• Endeavour to be clear in your knowledge, and answer the questions proposed to you with diffidence and timidity.

'Converse with yourself as much as possible, and learn-to think. When you return from Lectures, examine yourself strictly, whether you understand them or not. Recall the subjects of them often to your mind, and familiarise them to yourself by frequent meditation.

‹ When you have heard a Sermon, Declamation, or other Academical Exercise, endeavour to recollect the heads, and copy them into a book appropriated to that use."

In July, 1756, Mr. Zouch was admitted a Pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, under the tuition of the Rev. Stephen Whisson; and elected Scholar of that society in the ensuing year. Of his under-graduateship, few memorials remain: but the successes by which it was distinguished, and the mathematical honours conferred upon him at it's close, sufficiently attest his industry and his regularity.

It might here be suggested, as matter of painful regret, that from the early age at which young men commence their academical residence (coupled especially as it has been of late, from the increased conflux of students, with lodging in the town) they encounter, on their eman