produced no immediate profit; for it only placed him in a state of
expectation and right of succession, and it was very long before a
vacancy admitted him to profit.

Soon afterwards he married, and settled himself in a very pleasant
house at Wickham, in Kent, where he devoted himself to learning and
to piety. Of his learning the late Collection exhibits evidence,
which would have been yet fuller if the dissertations which
accompany his version of "Pindar" had not been improperly omitted.
Of his piety the influence has, I hope, been extended far by his
"Observations on the Resurrection," published in 1747, for which the
University of Oxford created him a Doctor of Laws, by diploma (March
30, 1748), and would doubtless have reached yet further had he lived
to complete what he had for some time meditated--the "Evidences of
the Truth of the New Testament." Perhaps it may not be without
effect to tell that he read the prayers of the public Liturgy every
morning to his family, and that on Sunday evening he called his
servants into the parlour and read to them first a sermon and then
prayers. Crashaw is now not the only maker of verses to whom may be
given the two venerable names of Poet and Saint. He was very often
visited by Lyttelton and Pitt, who, when they were weary of faction
and debates, used at Wickham to find books and quiet, a decent
table, and literary conversation. There is at Wickham a walk made
by Pitt; and, what is of far more importance, at Wickham, Lyttelton
received that conviction which produced his "Dissertation on St.
Paul." These two illustrious friends had for a while listened to
the blandishments of infidelity; and when West's book was published,
it was bought by some who did not know his change of opinion, in
expectation of new objections against Christianity; and as infidels
do not want malignity, they revenged the disappointment by calling