An account of the life and writings of Edmund Dickinson, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to King Charles and King James II. : To which is added, A treatise on the Grecian games, printed from the Doctor's own manuscript ... / By William Nicolas Blomberg.

  • William Nicolas Blomberg
Date:
1739
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Credit: An account of the life and writings of Edmund Dickinson, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to King Charles and King James II. : To which is added, A treatise on the Grecian games, printed from the Doctor's own manuscript ... / By William Nicolas Blomberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    no other Account but his extraordinary Merit and Learning. Sir Nathaniel Brent was, at this Time, Head of the College, who lide- Ing with the Puritans, was ejedfed his Wardenfliip by King Charles • but, being reftored again when Oxford Gar- nfon was furrendered for the Parlia¬ ment’s Ufe in 1646, the two following Years he was appointed Archvilitor of the Univerlity ; in which Time hap¬ pened the Election wherein Mr. Dick- ir/Jon was admitted Fellow : We are not to wonder that a Perfon of his Youth , and want of Experience, fhould fall in with the Iniquity of thole Times, he was better acquainted with what had formerly been tran ladled in the Republicks of Greece and Rome, than what the Independants - and Puritans were hatching in the Common-wealth of England; but as his judgment, in a fhort lime, grew more mature, he pfelently threw7 off the dangerous Prin¬ ciples oi thole Fanaticks, and was, ever
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