The life of John Hunter / by Jessé Foot, surgeon.

  • Jesse Foot
Date:
1794
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The life of John Hunter / by Jessé Foot, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    proportion, or carrying the grand career of • genius into practice : the best and brightest examples of men should alone be the models for imitation; but yet it will be ever found necessary, for the purpose of inculcating their true value, to form critical comparisons with characters that have be- trayed a contrary inclination. The progressive improvement of science can- not be more purely marked, nor the particular faculty of him who is supposed to have been of importance in its cause, cannot be better ascer- tained, than at the moment when his powers are ceasing to act, and his personal influence is with- drawing. This is the immediate point of time which is most favourable for shewing, what has been done on the same given subject by others, and what was done distinctly by him ; what was known before, and in his own time to others, and what was made known distinctly by him. The historian is better prepared for doing an act of justice, for demonstrating truth to the public eye, and must necessarily expose himself to detection by living witnesses, if he aim to pervert either. He cannot plead ignorance from want of informationj he cannot say, that his do- cuments have been carried down the rolling cur- rent
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