HE WAS NOT FOND OF CLASSICAL STUDIES,

And used to declare he could read no Latin author with pleasure but

Virgil: yet when the members' prize was awarded to him for a _Latin_

prose essay, in 1765, which he had illustrated with _English_ notes,

he was, strange enough, though his disregard of the classics was well

known, suspected of being the author of the _Latin only_. The reverse

was probably nearer the truth. It is notorious that

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