[Footnote 30: Yet I sincerely doubt whether the Oxford mosch
would have produced a volume of controversy so elegant and
ingenious as the sermons lately preached by Mr. White, the
Arabic professor, at Mr. Bampton's lecture. His observations
on the character and religion of Mahomet are always adapted
to his argument, and generally founded in truth and reason.
He sustains the part of a lively and eloquent advocate; and
sometimes rises to the merit of an historian and
philosopher.]