Warburton promised to satisfy,
by a fresh appendix. His volatile genius, however, was
condemned to "the pelting of a merciless storm." Lowth told
him--"You give yourself out as _demonstrator_ of the _divine
legation_ of Moses; it has been often demonstrated before; a
young student in theology might undertake to give a
better--that is, a more satisfactory and irrefragable
demonstration of it in five pages than you have done in five
volumes."--Lowth's "Letter to Warburton," p. 12.

[164] Hurd was the son of a Staffordshire farmer, and was placed by
him at Rugely, from whence he was removed to Emmanuel College,
Cambridge. At the age of twenty-six he published a pamphlet
entitled "Remarks on a late Book entitled 'An Inquiry into the
Rejection of the Christian Miracles by the Heathens, by
William Weston,'" which met with considerable attention. In
1749, on the occasion of publishing a commentary on Horace's
"Ars Poetica," he complimented Warburton so strongly as to
ensure his favour. Warburton returned it by a puff for Hurd in
his edition of Pope, and the two became fast friends. It was a
profitable connexion to Hurd, for by the intercession of
Warburton he was appointed one of the Whitehall preachers, a
preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and Archdeacon of Gloucester. He
repaid Warburton by constant praises in print, and so far
succeeded with that vain man, that when he read the dedication
he made to him of his "Commentary on the Epistle to Augustus,"
he wrote to him with mock humility--"I will confess to you how
much satisfaction the groundless part of it, that which
relates to myself, gave me." When Dr. Jortin very properly
spoke of Warburton with less of subserviency than the
overbearing bishop desired, Hurd at once came forward to fight
for Warburton in print, in a satirical treatise on "The
Delicacy of Friendship," which highly delighted his patron,
who at once wrote to Dr. Lowth, stating him to be "a man of
very superior talents, of genius, learning, and virtue;
indeed, a principal ornament of the age he lives in." Hurd was
made Bishop of Lichfield in 1775, and of Winchester in 1779.
He died in the year 1808.--ED.

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