Bishops are bad, they are like the Cretans, evil beasts and slow bellies; but the bishop whose brother Cowper knows is a blessing to the Church.

Deans and Canons are lazy sinecurists, but there is a bright exception in the case of the Cowper who held a golden stall at Durham.

Grinding India is criminal, but Warren Hastings is acquitted, because he was with Cowper at Westminster.

Discipline was deplorably relaxed in all colleges except that of which Cowper's brother was a fellow.

Pluralities and resignation bonds, the grossest abuses of the Church, were perfectly defensible in the case of any friend or acquaintance of this Church Reformer.