A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne].
- William Browne
- Date:
- 1753
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A vindication of the Royal College of Physicians: in reply to the speech of the Solicitor General (i. e. W. Murray) on opening the petition and appeal of Doctor Isaac Schomberg, alias Schamberg ... / [William Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *9 ] forced to deftroy the very life of argument and oratory! he mull appear ! like thzghofi of a felf-mangled great orator f Hei mihi! — Quantum mutatus ab Illo ! — tfuae Causa indigna! ferenos Foedavit vultus ! aut cur baec vulnera cerno (t) ! But, my Lords, to fhew, that Mr. S. was feniible he had got a caufe, that required yet more mifrepraefentations: mifrepraefentations of both forts, for both iides of the quaeftion, not onely categorical, but panegyrical; after having, with the former, labored fo hard, but labored in vain, to ftrip our college of its true and proper or¬ naments y ornaments, which it efteems far beyond its robes and ermins; its juftice, its prudence, its candor; he la¬ bored as hard, to drefs up his client in necelfary indeed, but falfe and borrowed plumeSy with two of the latter fort of mifrepraefentations (u). The firft of thefe, my Lords, was the afferting: that no exception had been made to his qualification; and thereforey he praefumedy that none coidd be made. Whereas unluckily, one of the four cenfors, who examined him, on record in our annals has declar¬ ed, that according to the oath he had takeny and the fta- tutes of the collegey he did not think him upon the wholey idoneus qui ad7nittatur in numerum candidatorum. All for¬ mer approbations of our cenforsy on their examinations, appear to have been unanimous: here therefore, is an exception with a witnefs; which mull call aloud for a recan¬ tation, how unufual and hard foever that talk may be, of fo defencelefs, fo ill grounded an offer tion. Nor was this D 2 „ prae- ft) —-Kaqv y aTrotv sv xoviym KeiIo, • Horn. (u) Ne, Ji forte fuas repetitum venerit olim Grex avium plumas, moveat cornicula rifum Furtivis nuctata co/oribus.- ■■■ Hor.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31900070_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
