146:'s "beauties of thought and diction", he wrote, "are so overloaded with far-fetched conceits and quaintnesses... that there is now very little probability of his ever regaining the popularity which he has lost." The lectures were published posthumously. The collection included the hymn "O Thou! Who sittest enthroned on high."
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