p. xxvii.
I mean the conversion of the kingdom from Paganism by St. Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury; and the Reformation begun and promoted by Bishops.
From Paganism in part; but in part from primitive Christianity to Popery. But neither this nor the following boast will bear narrow looking into, I suspect.
In fine.
Like all Taylor's dedications and dedicatory epistles, this is easy, dignified, and pregnant. The happiest
synthesis
of the divine, the scholar, and the gentleman was perhaps exhibited in him and Bishop Berkeley.
Introd. p.3.
In all those accursed machinations, which the device and artifice of hell hath invented for the supplanting of the Church, inimicus homo, that old superseminator of heresies and crude mischiefs, hath endeavoured to be curiously compendious, and, with Tarquin's device, putare summa papaverum.
Quœre-spiritualiter papaveratorurn?
Ib.