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 ARMSTRONG. 325 " The Forced Marriage, a Tragedy ;" " Sketches" [n]. In 1771 he publifhed " A fhort Ramble through fome Parts of " France and Italy, by Lancelot Temple;" and in 1773, in his own name, a quarto pamphlet, under the title of " A4edical Eflays ;" towards the conclufion of which, he accounts for his not having fuch extenfive practice as fome of his brethren, from his not being qualified to employ the ufual means, from a ticklifh ftate of fpirits, and a diftempered excefs of fcnfibility. He complains much of the behaviour of fome of his brethren, of the herd of critics, and particularly of the . Reviewers. He died in September 1779; and, to the no fmall furprife of his friends, left behind him more than 3000!. faved out of a very moderate income arifmg principally from his half-pay. In the "Anecdotes of Mr. Bowyer," the reader will find tome pleafmg traits in the character of thib ingenious writer. [B] In an advertifement to thefe vo- '* enough, have been better received lumes, Dr. Armftrong fays, he " has " by the great majority of readers, than " at laft taken the trouble upon him to " any thing he has publifhed. But he " collect them, and to have them " never courted the public. He wrote ' printed under his own infpedion j a " chiefly tor his own amufement; and " t.iflt th.it he h id long avoided j and " becaufe he found it an agreeable and c< !< v hich he would hardly have fub " innocent way of fometimes parting an " mitted himfelf at la(>, but f>r the " idle hour. He has always moft " fake of preventing their being, fome " heartily defpifed the opinion of the " time hereafter, expofcd in a tagged " mobility, from the lowed to the " man^l d condition, and loaded w.th " higheft : and if k is true, what he " niore faults than they originally had < " has fometimes been told, that the " while [when] it might be im, offible " beft judges are on his fide, he defires " for h m, by the change perhaps of " no more in the article of fame and " i ne letter, to recover a wht-le period ' renown as a writer. If the beft judges ' Along with ii:ch pieces as he had " probation, all the worft too of the lc formerly offered to the public, he " next will favour him with theirs j " takes this opportunity of pretenting " when by heaven's grace he'll be too " it with ieveral others; fome of which " tar beyond the reach of theirunmean- " had lam by him many years. What " ing praifes to receive any difguft " he has loft, and efpe^ially wh.it he l ( from them." '* has deftroyed, would, probably ARNALD (RICHARD) was born at London, and ad- Anecdotes mitted a penfioner of Benet College, Cambridge, in 1714. of Bow y er, After taking the degree of B. A. being difappninted of a br l fellowftiip, he removed to Emanuel College, Marc-i 10, 1718, where he proceeded M. A. and was elected f. Mow in 1721. He commenced B. D. (even years after, as the fta- tutes of that houfe required, and continued there till the fo- ciety prefenred him to the rectory of Thurcarton in Leicefter- fhire. Whiift fellow of that college, he printed tw-> copies of " Sapphics" on the death of king George j a fermou Y 3 preached
 * ' from the. moit contemptible nonfenfe. " of this age honour him with their ap-