A letter to Thomas Trotter, M.D : occasioned by his proposal for destroying the fire and choak damps of coal mines : containing chemical and general strictures on that work / by Henry Dewar.

  • Dewar, Henry, 1780-1823.
Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: A letter to Thomas Trotter, M.D : occasioned by his proposal for destroying the fire and choak damps of coal mines : containing chemical and general strictures on that work / by Henry Dewar. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    4 9 A compliment from Dr. Cullen must have been highly gratifying to an aspiring mind, and was not to be forgotten. But I must observe that, if it had merely animated you to such exertions as would of themselves have recommended you to the esteem of the world, it would have proved more service- able than when published by your own pen. The promising talents which Dr. Cullen com- plimented required good direction to bring them forward to maturity, and he could not foresee the exact degree of progress which, at a distance of so many years, the works of any pupil would indicate. As for the testimony of Dr. Hawes, which forms the summit of the climax, it would have been considered by many as too complimentary even for a private letter. You might have been excused for valuing it as an effusion of fond and partial friendship : but, by pub- lishing it in a preface to one of your books, you discovered how little you were aware of the ridicule with which the world receives from an author such expressions of self com- d placency.
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