OF

THE LIFE

OF

GILBERT WAKEFIELD, B.A.

FORMERLY

FELLOW OF JESUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

John Towill Ru

VOL. II.

BY THE EDITORS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

LIBRARY.

ARVARD UNIVERSITY

1804.

CONSISTING CHIEFLY OF ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS,

ahis study bent

To worship God aright, and know his works

Not hid, nor those things last which might preserve

Freedom and Peace to men.

MILTON, P. L. xi. 577.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J.JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT.

Introduction...

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VOL. II.

Page 1

CHAP. I.

Continuation of "Silva Critica....Dr. Kipling, Dr.

Milner.... Mr. Tyrwhitt's liberality...." Spirit of

Christianity compared," &c.

1792-1795......5

CHAP. II.

Mr. Wakefield's Answer to the "Age of Reason"....

Remarks on the proceedings against that work, &c.

1794-1797.....

18

CHAP. III.

Editions of Horace.... Virgil.... Greek tragedies....

Projected edition of Pope's works...." Observations

on Pope"...." Poetical translations".... "Bion and

Moschus".... Hackney Club. 1794, 1795.....50

CHAP. IV.

Active liberality of Mr. Wakefield...." Reply to the

Letter of Edmund Burke, Esq. to a noble Lord."...

1794-1797.......
....66

a

CHAP. V.

Mr. Wakefield's edition of Pope's Homer...." General

Observations on Homer and his Translators"....

Publication of Lucretius.... Diatribe...." Letter to

VOL. II.

Jacob Bryant, Esq."...." Letter to William Wil-

berforce, Esq." 1796, 1797.......

.81

CHAP. VI.

Mr. Wakefield's "Reply to some Parts of the Bishop of

Landaff's Address to the People of Great Britain"...

Proceedings against the publishers.... The author's

trial and defence. 1798, 1799..

115

CHAP. VII.

Mr. Wakefield called up for judgment.... His Address

to the Judges.... Commitment to the King's Bench

prison.... Brought up to the Court for sentence....

Address from Mr. Justice Grose.... Sentence....

Generous testimony of attachment from his friends

and the public. 1799.....

142

CHAP. VIII.

Mr. Wakefield's removal to Dorchester gaol, and circum-

stances connected with his imprisonment.

1799...

162

CHAP. IX.

Visits to Mr. Wakefield....Literary projects....Mr.

Dodson's legacy. 1799.....

178

CHAP. X.

Circumstances of Mr. Wakefield's imprisonment, con-

tinued.... Proposals for a Greek and English Lexi-

con....Letters.

1800....

.200

CHAP. XI.

Imitation of Juvenal.... Letters from Mr. Wakefield

....Dr. Darwin.... Scripture Lexicon, &c.

1800.

225

CHAP. XII.

Mr. Wakefield's letters to his Daughter.... Attendance

on four condemned criminals.... Letters from the

Rev. Dr. Parr and the Rev. Dr. Geddes.... His re-

lease from the gaol. 1801......

...245

CHAP XIII.

Mr.Wakefield's application in behalf of the prisoners....

Observations on the regulations of the prison, &c.

from his miscellaneous papers. 1801..........266

CHAP. XIV.

Mr. Wakefield's return to Hackney.... Lectures on

Virgil.... His illness and death. 1801........283

CHAP. XV.

Miscellaneous observations relative to Mr. Wakefield's

.297

character...

CHAP. XVI.

Respect paid to Mr. Wakefield's memory.... Letter from

Dr. Parr....Funeral....Sketches of his character....

Verses on the occasion of his death.

1801.....321

APPENDIX. (B.)

Essay "On the Origin of Alphabetical Characters"...339

APPENDIX. (C.)

Letters to Mr. Wakefield from Professors Heyne and

Jacobs....
363

APPENDIX. (D)

Extract from the Appendix to Mr. Wakefield's printed

Defence.....

..377