great ingenuity of the
person, inclines young men to more pride than any other kind
of breeding, and disposes them to be pragmatical and
insolent." "Now, my lord (Lowth continues), as you have in
your whole behaviour, and in all your writings, remarkably
distinguished yourself by your humility, lenity, meekness,
forbearance, candour, humanity, civility, decency, good
manners, good temper, moderation with regard to the
opinions of others, and a modest diffidence of your own, this
unpromising circumstance of your education is so far from
being a disgrace to you, that it highly redounds to your
praise."--_Lowth's Letter to the Author of the D. L._ p. 63.

Was ever weapon more polished and keen? This Attic style of
controversy finely contrasts with the tasteless and fierce
invective of the Warburtonians, although one of them is
well known to have managed too adroitly the cutting
instrument of irony; but the frigid malignancy of Hurd
diminishes the pleasure we might find in his skill.
Warburton ill concealed his vexation in the contempt he
vented in a letter to Hurd on this occasion. "All you say
about Lowth's pamphlet breathes the purest spirit of
friendship. His _wit_ and his _reasoning_, God knows, and
I also, (as a certain critic said once in a matter of the
like great importance), are much below the qualities that
deserve those names."--He writes too of "this man's boldness
in publishing his letters."--"If he expects an answer, he
will certainly find himself disappointed; though I believe I
could make _as good sport with this devil of a vice_, for
the public diversion, as ever was made with him in the old
Moralities."--But Warburton did reply! Had he ever possessed
one feeling of taste, never would he have figured the elegant
Lowth as this grotesque personage. He was, however, at that
moment sharply stung!

This circumstance of _Attorneyship_ was not passed over in
Mallet's "Familiar Epistle to the Most Impudent Man Living."
Comparing, in the Spirit of "familiarity," Arnall, an impudent
scribbling attorney and political scribe, with Warburton, he
says, "You have been an attorney as well as he, but a little
more impude