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The dispute was carried on with the highest elegance and spirit, on both sides: and the Respondent in particular, acquitted himself so well in this literary contest, that the Duke very soon after was pleased to present him to the Vicarage of Damerham, in Wiltshire, in his Grace's private patronage; which preferment was the more acceptable, as the living was tenable with his Fellowship. Dr. Ogden took an early occasion of publicly expressing his gratitude to his noble patron for so honorable a mark of his favor, in a handsome dedication prefixed to two sermons, preached before the University on the 29th of May, and the 22d of June, in 1758. In 1764 he was appointed Woodwardian Professor. In 1766, he obtained the consent of the Duke of Newcastle to exchange the living of Damerham for the Rectory of Stansfield, in Suffolk, on the Presentation of the Lord Chancellor; and in the month of June of the same year, he was presented to the rectory of Lawford, in Essex, by the Master and Fellows of St. John's College; which two livings, together with his Professorship, he held till his death.

He died on the 22d day of March, 1778, in the 62d year of his age; and was buried in the parish Church of The Holy Sepulchre, in Cambridge, where he had preached for several years after his return to College in 1753, and was, constantly, attended by a numerous audience, consisting, principally, of the younger members of the University."

Bishop Halifax observes: "If the subjects of his Sermons be common, and have been often handled by other writers; the style and composition of the author are peculiarly his own. In his mode of delivery, there was something remarkably striking, which commanded the attention of all who heard him."

"In common life there was a real or apparent rusticity in his address; but he was in truth, one of the most humane and tender-hearted men I have ever known."

On the Efficacy of Prayer and Intercession-on the Articles of the Christian Faith-on the Ten Commandments-and on the Lord's Supper.

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"To his relations who wanted his assistance, he was remarkably kind in his life, and in his legacies left them at his death. His father and mother, who both lived to an extreme old age, the former dying at the age of 75, and the latter at that of 85, owed almost their whole support to his piety. Soon after the death of his father in the year 1766, he wrote a Latin epitaph to his memory, and caused it to be fixed at his own expence, on a marble tablet, in the Collegiate Church in Manchester, a copy of which the curious reader will not be displeased to see."

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"During the latter part of Dr. Ogden's life, he labored much under ill health. About a year before he died, he was seized with a paralytic fit as he was stepping into his chariot, and was judged to be in immediate and extreme danger. The cheerfulness with which he sustained this shock, and the indifference with which he gave the necessary orders on the event of his dissolution, which seemed to be then so near, were such as could only be ascribed to a mind, perfectly resigned. to the disposals of Providence, and full of the hopes of happiness in a better state. A second return of the

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same disorder, which after the first attack he daily expected, proved fatal."

I had long enquired for the two sermons mentioned above, and was even informed by a Gentleman, who had applied to a very intimate friend of Dr. Ogden for them, that he believed such sermons were never published; a copy not having been deposited either in the Library of St. John's College, or the public Library. Through the kindness of Mr. Professor Martyn, I obtained them, he having very obligingly borrowed them of Dr, Elliston, the late Master of Sidney College. The critical reader will trace the pen of Dr. Ogden, but will perceive that this eloquent preacher had made a very considerable improvement in composition, before he submitted to the world those discourses, which are so justly celebrated for originality of sentiment, and elegance of expression. They are, notwithstanding, liable to one striking objection: they are so condensed as to be rather each an analysis of a sermon, than an entire discourse-an objection which the highest admiration cannot remove.

Dr. Ogden, a little before his death, consulted Bishop, then Dr. Halifax, about the publication of the several sermons he had preached before the University, a design which the Bishop very highly approved: the next day he consulted Dr. Craven, the late master of St. John's College, from whom I received the account -who, unfortunately, thought the Doctor's character sufficiently established. Those invaluable sermonsmany of which were on the most interesting subjectswere all destroyed except two or three, reserved for his friends, together with his parochial discourses, in consequence of that unfortunate advice!!! How many of Dr. Ogden's admirers will wish that Dr. Craven had not been born!

BISHOP PEARCE.

THE following account of Bishop Pearce is extracted from his Life prefixed to his Commentary :he received part of his literary education at a private school at Great Ealing, from whence, in 1704, he was removed to Westminster school, where in the year 1710, after six years spent at Westminster, he was elected to Trinity College, in Cambridge.

In the year 1716, he printed his first edition of Cicero de Oratore, with notes and emendations. Through the kindness of one of his friends, he was permitted to dedicate it to Lord Parker, the then Chief Justice of the King's Bench. He made a visit to his patron, who received him in a very obliging manner, invited him to dine with him the next day, and then put into his hands a purse, which contained fifty guineas. He at times renewed his visits to his Lordship, and was, always, very kindly received by him. Mr. Pearce was elected Fellow of his College that year.

The Bishop, during his residence at Cambridge, wrote in the 8th volume of the Spectator, No. 572, a humorous essay on quacks; and No. 633, a serious dissertation on the eloquence of the pulpit, of which the hint is taken from a fragment of Longinus, where Paul of Tarsus is numbered among the great masters of oratory.

In the year 1717, he was ordained a deacon, and the next year a priest, by the Bishop of Ely. In 1718, the Lord Chief Justice Parker, being appointed Lord High Chancellor, he became domestic chaplain to his Lordship. In 1719, he was instituted to the rectory of Stapleford Abbots, in Essex. In 1720, he was presented by the Lord Chancellor to the rectory of St. Bartholomew, behind the Royal Exchange, of

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the yearly value of 400l. then supposed to be the most valuable of any in the city of London,

In the same year, the Ministers of State dining with the Lord Chancellor, being called in to say grace to them before they sat down to dinner, the Duke of Newcastle, then Lord Chamberlain, was pleased to take notice of him, as his Grace had known him at Wesminster School and at Cambridge, and after he was withdrawn, the Duke expressed to the Lord Chancellor a favorable opinion of him. Upon which the Lord Chancellor said, then, Lord Chamberlain, I hope, that as you think so well of him, you will make him one of his Majesty's Chaplains when there is a vacancy. Yes, my Lord, replied the Duke, I will do so when I have an opportunity, and accordingly he soon after received the Lord Chamberlain's warrant for that honor.

In 1722-3, he married the daughter of Mr. Adams, of Holborn, with a considerable fortune, and lived with her 52 years in the highest degree of connubial happiness.

Mr. Pearce was presented to the living of St. Martin's in the Fields by the Lord Chancellor, on the translation of Dr. Green, Bishop of Norwich, to the see of Ely, in 1723-4. Being only of fourteen years standing, he could not take a Degree of Doctor in Divinity, which the Lord Chancellor told him he thought it proper for him to take; it was therefore settled that it should be obtained from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury; which was conferred in June, 1724.

The same year, he dedicated to his patron, then created Earl of Macclesfield, Longinus on the sublime, with a new Latin verfion and notes.

Having had occasion to see Mr. Pultney, he noticed to Dr. Pearce his having been educated at Westminster school-invited him to come on a day named to dine with him; and from that day a friendship subsisted between them, which lasted and improved for very near forty years, and till the death of Mr. Pultney, who sat then in the House of Lords as Earl of Bath.

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