That learned body wanted loyalty.
To th’ other books he gave, as well discerning,
How much that loyal body wanted learning.
It is but fair to subjoin the reply, particularly as it is the best thing that ever came from the pen of Sir William Browne, the physician; and extorted praise, even from Johnson himself, in favour of a Cambridge man.
“The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force.
With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument.”
Noble’s continuation of Granger ii. 89.
[374] Observer. The following note by Onslow occurs in the Oxford edition of Burnet’s Hist. of his own Time. “I have heard that the first notice or thought which that extraordinary man, the Bishop Cumberland, had of his promotion, was by reading it in a newspaper at Stamford, where he was minister.” Vol. iv. 131.