Life of Johnson. f pHE manner in which he expressed his admiration of the fertility of Warburton’s genius and of the variety of his materials was, “ The table is always full. Sir. He brings things from the north, and the south, and from every quarter. In his Divine Legation, you are always entertained. He carries you round and round, without carrying you forward to the point: but then you have no wish to be carried forward." He said to the Reverend Mr Strahan, " Warburton is perhaps the last man who has written with a mind full of reading and reflection.”
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20542, 18 February 1935, Page 6
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