A COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF PSALM S, BY GEORGE HORNE, D.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF NORWICH. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, BY JAMES MONTGOMERY, ESQ. AND A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY THE LATE REV. WILLIAM JONES, OF NAYLAND. LONDON: John Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly; WHITTAKER & CO. AVE-MARIA LANE; SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & Co. STATIONERS' COURT; TALBOYS, OXFORD; DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE; OLIVER & BOYD, EDINBURGH; CUMMING, DUBLIN; AND T. WARDLE, PHILADELPHIA. MDCCCXXXVI. INTRODUCTORY ESSAY. Sacred to the Memory of THE RIGHT REVEREND GEORGE HORNE, D. D., MANY YEARS PRESIDENT of Magdalen College IN OXFORD, DEAN OF CANTERBURY, AND LATE BISHOP OF THIS DIOCESE. IN WHOSE CHARACTER DEPTH OF LEARNING, BRIGHTNESS OF IMAGINATION, AS SEEMED NOT DUE TO HIS YEARS, TOOK ITS FLIGHT FROM THIS VALE OF MISERY, JANUARY 17, 1792, IN THE 62D YEAR OF HIS AGE. Or few men can it be said, that their epitaphs have more concisely, yet comprehensively, summed up the main events of their mortal lives, than this abridgement of the more verbose inscription on the tablet in Norwich cathedral, to the memory of Bishop Horne-records of the stages by which he passed quietly, prosperously, and usefully from the commencement to the close of his public career. What is here registered at his death might almost have been prophesied at his birth, as, VOL. I. b |