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See also:EACHARD, See also:JOHN (1636 ?-1697) , See also:English divine, was See also:born in See also:Suffolk, and was educated at Catharine See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, See also:Cambridge, of which he became See also:master in 1675 in See also:succession to John See also:Lightfoot. He was created D.D. in 1676 by royal See also:mandate, and was twice (in 1679 and 1695) See also:vice-See also:chancellor of the university. He died on the 7th of See also:July 1697. In 167o he had published anonymously a humorous See also:satire entitled The Ground and Occasions of the Contempt of the See also:Clergy enquired into in a See also:letter to R. L., which excited much See also:attention and provoked several replies, one of them being from John See also:Owen. These were met by Some Observations, &°c., in a second letter to R. L. (1671), written in the same bantering See also:tone as the See also:original See also:work. Eachard attributed the contempt into which the clergy had fallen to their imperfect See also:education, their insufficient incomes, and the want of a true vocation. His descriptions, which were somewhat exaggerated, were largely used by See also:Macaulay in his See also:History of See also:England. He gave amusing illustrations of the absurdity and poverty of the current See also:pulpit See also:oratory of his See also:day, some of them being taken from the sermons of his own See also:father. He attacked the See also:philosophy of See also:Hobbes in his Mr Hobb's See also:State of Nature considered; in a See also:dialogue between Philautus and See also:Timothy (1672), and in his Some Opinions of Mr Hobbs considered in a second dialogue (1673). These were written in their author's chosen vein of See also:light satire, and See also:Dryden praised them as highly effective within their own range. Eachard's own sermons, however, were not See also:superior to those he satirized. See also:Swift (See also:Works, xii. 279) alludes to him as a See also:signal instance of a successful humorist who entirely failed as a serious writer.
A collected edition of his works in three volumes. with a See also:notice of his See also:life, was published in 1774. The Contempt of the Clergy was reprinted in E. See also:Arber's English Garner. A See also:Free Enquiry into the Causes of the very See also:great Esteem that the Nonconforming Preachers are generally in with their Followers (1673) has been attributed to Eachard on insufficient grounds.
End of Article: EACHARD, JOHN (1636 ?-1697)
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