o rub another volume of the 'Divine Legation' in
the noses of bigots and zealots." He employs the most
ludicrous images, and the coarsest phrases, on the most solemn
subjects. In one of his most unlucky paradoxes with Lowth, on
the age and style of the writings of Job, he accuses that
elegant scholar of deficient discernment; and, in respect to
style, as not "distinguishing partridge from horseflesh;" and
in quoting some of the poetical passages, of "paying with an
old song," and "giving rhyme for reason." Alluding to some one
of his adversaries, whom he calls "the weakest, as well as the
wickedest of all mankind," he employs a striking image--"I
shall hang him and his fellows, as they do vermin in a warren,
and leave them to posterity, to stink and blacken in the
wind."

[168] Warburton, in this work (the "Doctrine of Grace,") has a curious
passage, too long to quote, where he observes, that "The
Indian and Asiatic eloquence was esteemed hyperbolic and
puerile by the more phlegmatic inhabitants of Rome and Athens:
and the Western eloquence, in its turn, frigid or insipid, to
the hardy and inflamed imaginations of the East. The same
expression, which in one place had the utmost simplicity, had
in another the utmost sublime." The jackal, too, echoes the
roar of the lion; for the polished Hurd, whose taste was far
more decided than Warburton's, was bold enough to add, in his
Letter to Leland, "That which is thought supremely _elegant_
in one country, passes in another for _finical_; while what in
this country is accepted under the idea of _sublimity_, is
derided in that other as no better than _bombast_." So
unsettled were the _no-taste_ of Warburton, and the
_prim-taste_ of Hurd!

[169] The Letter to Leland is characterised in the "Critical Review"
for April, 1765, as the work of "a preferment-hunting
toad-eater, who, while his patron happened to go out of his
depth, tells him that he is treading good ground; but at the
same time offers him the use of a cork-jacket to keep him
above water."

[170] Dr. Thomas Leland was born in Dublin in 1722, and was educated
in Trinity College, in that city. Having obtained a Fellowship
there, he depen