[666] Mr. Pattison's Essay in Essays and Reviews.
[667] Lives of the Chancellors, by Lord Campbell, vol. v. chap. xxxviii. p. 186.
[668] Anecdotes of the Life of R. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, published by his Son, vol. i. p. 157.
[669] Letters from Warburton to Hurd, second ed. 1809, Letter xlvi. July 1752.
[670] Boswell's Life of Johnson, in ten vols., 1835, Murray, vol. v. p. 298. See also vol. iv. p. 92. 'Few bishops are now made for their learning. To be a bishop a man must be learned in a learned age, factious in a factious age, but always of eminence,' &c.
[671] See Bishop Newton's Autobiography, and Lord Mahon's History.
[672] Memoirs of William Whiston, by himself, p. 275. See also pp. 119 and 155, 156.
[673] 'A fact,' he adds, 'so apparent to Government, both civil and ecclesiastical, that, they have found it necessary to provide rewards and honours for such advances in learning and piety as may best enable the clergy to serve the interests of the Church of Christ,' a remark which we might have thought ironical did we not know the temper of the times.—See Watson's Life of Warburton, 488.
[674] Anecdotes of the Life of Bishop Watson, i. 116. He quotes also a remark of D'Alembert: 'The highest offices in Church and State resemble a pyramid, whose top is accessible to only two sorts of animals, eagles and reptiles.'
[675] Lives of the Chancellors, vol. v. chap. clxi. p. 656. Lord Chesterfield makes some bitter remarks on the higher clergy 'with the most indefatigable industry and insatiable greediness, darkening in clouds the levees of kings and ministers,' &c., quoted in Phillimore's History of England, during the reign of George III. Phillimore himself makes some very severe strictures on the sycophancy and greed of the higher clergy.—See his History, passim.