The Cambridge History of English Literature volume 10
The Cambridge History of English Literature volume 10
Adolphus William Ward
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He was prepared to re- vise the Prayer-Book and the Articles, and to exchange pulpits with dissenters. He befriended the Jews, and Hume tells us, in his Essays, that the archbishop praised him for his History. He raised a large sum for the government during the '45. But his literary work, save his rather pleasing letters, is uninterest- ing and ineffective. His successor at York and Canterbury, Matthew Skelton, was little thought of and soon forgotten. But with Thomas Seeker, bishop in turn of ...Bristol and of Oxford, and archbishop of Canterbury for ten years, from 1758, we reach a higher grade. Like Butler, with whom he had been at school, and like not a few in the list of English primates, he was not till manhood converted to the English church, and, to the delicate taste of Horace Walpole, he seemed to retain to the last something of the "tone of fanaticism" which had belonged to his early training. Yet the beginning of method- ism filled him with alarm: whatever he may have shown of "fanaticism, " he was certainly no "enthusiast.
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