Volume 1

The works, theological, medical, political and miscellaneous, of John Jebb, with memoirs of the life of the author / by John Disney.

  • John Jebb
Date:
1787
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Credit: The works, theological, medical, political and miscellaneous, of John Jebb, with memoirs of the life of the author / by John Disney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    No fooner had Mr. Jebb left Cambridge/ than the vice-chancellor propofed a grace, on ' the 5th of July, which palTed the caput, and both houfes, without one diffenting voice; and which appointed a committee, confiding of thirty-fix members, to deliberate and re- port their opinion upon the quefiiion of exa- minations. In this date of the bufinefs, all promifed fair. But, in order to defeat any probable good effect from this meafure, the committee were prematurely called together on the 2 id of the following October, before the divifion of the term, and when only twenty-three of their number could be pre- fen t. The confequences were forefeen, and the meafure was expedited accordingly. Fourteen were againd, and nine for it. Whereas, had the meeting of the committee been deferred, till after the divifion of the term, and the abfentees had been returned to the univerfity, it was well known that a contrary determination would have taken place. The dimmer recefs was fruitful in many important events to Mr. Jebb, of a different ]E 2 kind;
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