Excerpt from Our Christian Classics, Vol. 2 of 4: Readings From the Best Divines, With Notices Biographical and Critical

It is Oxford two hundred years ago - Oxford in the days of the Roundheads - and we ask leave to introduce the reader to the resident chief of the University. Tall, and in the prime of life, with cocked hat and powdered hair, with lawn tops to his morocco boots, and with ribbons luxuriant at his knee, there is nothing to mark the Puritan - whilst hi his easy unembarrassed movements and kindly-assuring air, there is all which bespeaks the gentleman; but, were it not for the reverences of obsequious beadles and the recognitions of respectful students, you would scarcely surmise the academic dignitary. That old-fashioned divine - his square cap and ruff surmounting the doctor"s gown - with whom he shakes hands so cordially, is a Royalist and Prelatist, but withal the Hebrew Professor, and the most famous Orientalist in England, Dr Edward Pocock.

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