reproof, zealously set his face against it, and was one of the seven bishops tried and gloriously acquitted in 1688. After the Revolution, however, refusing to take the oath of allegiance to the new government, he was deprived of his bishopric, and conscientiously retired into poverty. On the accession of Queen Anne, she offered to restore him to Bath and Wells; but he declined, whereupon her Majesty granted him a pension of 2001. a year, which his friends had considerable difficulty in preventing him from bestowing entirely upon his poorer brethren.

In the middle of March 1771, he died at Longleat, and was buried in the church-yard of Frome Selwood, having, according to his own desire been carried to the grave by six of the poorest men in the parish, and interred without pomp or ceremony, “All glory be to God" was ever his motto.

"His moral character," says Mr. Macaulay, "when impartially reviewed, sustains a comparison with any in ecclesiastical history, and seems to approach, as near as human infirmity permits, to the ideal perfection of Christian virtue."

BOYHOOD OF DR. PARR.

THIS learned and eminent divine was born at Ilarrow, on the 15th January, 1747. His father was a surgeon and apothecary there, and so enthusiastic a Jacobite that he had rashly advanced nearly the whole of his property in the cause of the exiled house of Stuart. This unfortunate circumstance no doubt rendered it much more difficult in a pecuniary point of view than it would otherwise have been, for his highly-gifted son to pursue those congenial and wellloved studies, which eventually rendered him at once a vigilant pastor, and a man of gigantic and ponderous learning. He was almost in infancy recognized as a boy of rare and precocious intellect, which displayed itself in an extraordinary grammatical knowledge of the Latin language, acquired as early as his fourth year. At this extremely juvenile age he was taught to dispense medicines, but did not show any signs of taking to his father's business, which was quite foreign to his taste. Without being one of those children described by American novelists, as dying of too much grace and goodness, there appeared in him, from the first dawn of boyhood, indications of a natural bias toward the sphere, in which he was destined to

move.

At the age of nine he was admitted as a scholar

on the foundation of Harrow school, of which, ere five years had passed, he became the head boy. He always looked forward to being a clergyman, and used to practice himself by preaching to his schoolfellows, and pronouncing funeral orations over dead birds, cats, and dogs. One day Dr. Allen found him sitting alone, on the church-yard gate, apparently in deep and studious meditation.

Why don't you join the other boys in their play?" asked the Doctor, a little surprised at his solitary position.

"Do you not know, sir," replied Parr, with a seriousness becoming the subject "that I am to be a parson?"

About this time he is said to have written some sermons, and composed a drama from the book of Ruth, his first literary attempt.

His humanity to animals was extreme, and the only battle he ever fought at school was in defense of a worried cat; but, notwithstanding this, he had a strange fancy for felling oxen at the slaughter-house. Another juvenile peculiarity was his delight in ringing church-bells, to gratify which he put forth the whole of his strength. Whether or not he, like his distinguished contemporary, Sir William Jones, regaled himself with tea to stimulate the studious faculty and ward off "balmy sleep," it is certain that his aversion to it was at one period peculiarly strong. Being on one occasion invited by a lady to partake of the

beverage, he uttered this pointed and delicate compliment:

"Non possum te-cum vivere, nec sine te." On leaving school he attended for two or three years to his father's profession; but had no particular ambition for such distinction as could be therein acquired. His studies did not suffer so much from this circumstance as might have been expected; for he fell upon the plan of getting some of his former associates to report to him the master's remarks on the lesson of each day; and thus not only kept the flame of learning still burning within him, but made almost as much progress by private study as he had done when subjected to the discipline of the school and the danger of the birchen rod.

His father, finding the inclination of his boy-divine too strong to be thwarted, at length consented, at his own earnest desire, that he should be sent to Emanuel College, Cambridge, where he was accordingly entered, in 1765.

His father's death, a very short time after, left him almost penniless, and this compelled him to leave the new scene of his studies with a sad heart; but notwithstanding all disappointments and privations, he resolutely pursued the career for which nature had bountifully fitted him, and, in 1767, became assistant at Harrow; where he had under his tuition Sheridan, Halhed, and John Shore, afterward Lord Teignmouth.

In 1760 he was ordained to the curacy of Willesden,

in Middlesex, which he resigned the following year. In 1771 he was created A.M. by royal mandate, to qualify him for the head-mastership of Harrow, then vacant; but failing to obtain the appointment, he resigned his situation as assistant, and opened a school at Stanmore, whither he was followed by a large number of the Harrow scholars. The enterprise not proving successful, he afterward accepted the mastership of the Norwich Grammar School. In 1781 he published his two sermons on education, which subject he subsequently discussed in a quarto volume; and, about the same time, took the degree of L.L.D. at Cambridge. In 1781 he was presented to a prebend in St. Paul's, and to the perpetual curacy of Hatton, to which he retired. In 1807 he was on the point of obtaining the bishopric of Gloucester, but a change of administration frustrated the intention of his friends in this respect.

On the 6th of March, 1825, he died at Hatton, in his seventy-eighth year, and was followed to the grave by a large concourse of eminent men, of various religious persuasions.