THE AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY. CONDUCTED BY B. B. EDWARDS. VOLUME TENTH — NOS. XXVII, XXVIII. NEW YORK: GOULD & NEWMAN, PUBLISHERS AND PRINTERS. PERKINS & MARVIN AND CROCKER & BREWSTER. CINCINNATI: TRUMAN & SMITH. 1837. THE AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY. NO. XXVII. JULY, 1837. ARTICLE I. EMINENT ENGLISH SCHOLARS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. By the Editor. WE propose to insert occasionally in our pages brief notices of the distinguished literary men of past times, whose names and whose works are never likely to perish from memory, but whose biographies, wrapped up, it may be, in huge folios, are but little known even by scholars. English history, about the period of the Commonwealth, teems with illustrious men. The whole heavens are brilliant with constellations. The Augustan age of English literature was not closed with the death of Elizabeth or James I. It reached through the dynasty of the Protector, and shed an undying lustre on what men are pleased to call his usurpation. There are the honored names of Selden, Cotton, Harrington, Usher, Chillingworth, Barrow, Taylor, Milton, Pocock, Cudworth, Leighton, Baxter, Boyle, Sidney, Castell, Lightfoot, Brian Walton, Prynne, Locke, Newton, Flamsteed, Hooker, Halley, and many others. Of these, the least justice has been done to the memory of the retired scholars. Little is in general circulation touching the private life of Usher, Pocock, Castell and Walton. Yet they deserve as much of their country and of mankind as HarVOL. X. No. 27. 1 |