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See also: English divine, was See also: born in See also: London on the 15th of See also: September 1733
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Entering Trinity See also: College, Cambridge, he became LL.B. in 1758 without graduating in arts, and in the following See also: year succeeded his See also: father in the living of Newington Butts in Surrey
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See also: Horsley was elected a See also: Fellow of the Royal Society in 1767; and secretary in 1773, but, in consequence of a difference with the president (See also: Sir See also: Joseph See also: Banks) he withdrew in 1784
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In 1768 he attended the eldest son of the 4th See also: earl of See also: Aylesford to See also: Oxford as private tutor; and, after receiving through the earl and See also: Bishop See also: Lowth various minor preferments, which by dispensations he combined with his first living, he was installed in 1781 as archdeacon of St Albans
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Horsley now entered in earnest upon his famous controversy with Joseph See also: Priestley, who denied that the early Christians held the See also: doctrine of the Trinity
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In this controversy, conducted on both sides in the fiercest polemical spirit, Horsley showed the See also: superior learning and ability
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His aim was to lessen the influence which the See also: prestige of Priestley's name gave to his views, by indicating inaccuracies in his scholarship and undue haste in his conclusions
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For the energy displayed in the contest Horsley was rewarded by See also: Lord Chancellor Thurlow with a prebendal stall at See also: Gloucester; and in 1788 the same See also: patron procured his promotion to the see of St See also: David's
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As a bishop, Horsley was energetic both in his diocese, where he strove to better the position of his See also: clergy, and in parliament
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The efficient support which he afforded the See also: government was acknowledged by his successive See also: translations to Rochester in 1793, and to St See also: Asaph in 18o2
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With the bishopric of Rochester he held the deanery of See also: Westminster
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He died at See also: Brighton on the 4th of See also: October 18o6
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Besides the controversial Tracts, which appeared in 1783–1784–1786, and were republished in 1789 and 1812, Horsley's more important See also: works are:—Apollonii Pergaei inclinationum libri duo (177o) ; Remarks on the Observations ... for determining the acceleration of the Pendulum in See also: Lat
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7o° 51' (1774); Isaaci Newtoni See also: Opera quae extant Omnia, with a commentary (5 vols
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4to, 1779–1785) ; On the Prosodies of tke See also: Greek and Latin See also: Languages 0796); Disquisitions on See also: Isaiah xviii
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(1796); See also: Hosea, translated ... with Notes (1801); Elementary See also: Treatises on
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See also: Mathematics (1801); Euclidis elernentorum libri priores XII
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(1802); Euclidis datorum See also: liber (1803); Virgil's Two Seasons of Honey, &c
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(1805); and papers in the Philosophical Transactions from 1767 to 1776
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After his See also: death there appeared—Sermons (1810–1812); Speeches in Parliament (1813); See also: Book of Psalms, translated with Notes (1815); Biblical See also: Criticism (1820) ; Collected Theological Works (6 vols
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8vo, 1845)
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