The Life of Isaac Walton Including Notices of His Contemporaries
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' Gauden seems to have been extremely deficient in his in- formation, and, dying soon afterwards, had no opportunity of revising and amending his very imperfect and inaccurate memoir. This was fol- lowed in 1670, by the Life of Mr. George Herbert, usually called ' the Divine Herbert ; ' and in 1678, he concluded his biographical labours with the the Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson 8 . Previous to to many, it is ' remarkable for nothing but its singularity, which consists in the starting of a metap...hor, and the hunting it down. ' 7 Sir John Hawkins inadvertently observes, that Hooker was personally known to his biographer. It seems to have escaped his recollection, that Hooker died in 1600, and Walton, being born in 1593, was then only seven years of age. ED. 8 Walton erroneously says, that Bishop Sanderson was born at ' Rotherham, in the county of York. ' The parish register of Sheffield records his baptism in the church of that town, Sept. 20, 1587 ;' and in Hopkinson's MSS. , under San- derson, of Gilthwait, his birth is thus noticed " Robert, 24 THE LIFE OF the publication of this last work, he received the following interesting letter from Dr.
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