13/72 He was a laborious man in his function, of great strictness of life, but a little too severe against those who differed from him. But that was, when he thought their doctrines struck at the fundamentals of religion. He became afterwards more moderate .-- _Swift._ Yes, for he turned a rank Whig. _Burnet._ [Archbishop Tenison] was a very learned man .-- _Swift._ The dullest, good-for-nothing man I ever knew. _Burnet,_ condemning the bad style of preaching before Tillotson, Lloyd, and Stillingfleet, says their discourses were:--long and heavy, when all was _pie-bald_, full of many sayings of different languages .-- _Swift._ A noble epithet. |