I need no other passage but this to convince me that Jeremy Taylor, the angle in which the two
apices
of logic and rhetoric meet, consummate in both, was yet no metaphysician. Learning, fancy, discursive intellect,
tria juncta in uno
, and of each enough to have alone immortalized a man, he had; but yet
. Images, conceptions, notions, such as leave him but one rival, Shakspeare, there were; but no ideas. Taylor was a Gassendist. O! that he had but meditated in the silence of his spirit on the mystery of an
I AM
! He would have seen that a person,
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