Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life, Character and Writings of Joseph Butler, D. C. L: Late Lord Bishop of Durham
That which is here suggested, as a desideratum in biographical literature, I have now endeavoured to accomplish; and, although the above passage did not meet my eye until the greater part of the following Memoir was written, yet, if an apology be needed for the attempt, I may perhaps, in bar of censure, be allowed to put in that passage as my plea.
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