Copy 1, Volume 1

The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author.

  • John Brown
Date:
1795
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The elements of medicine / Translated from the Latin, with comments and illustrations, by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    duity to fchool learning from a perfuafion that it would qualify him to propagate more effectually the tenets of his fect. My con- jecture is founded on the following expref- fons of Mr. Wait: * he had at this time— the time of his entrance at Dunfe fchoo]— * fober habits: he was exceedingly reli- ** gious, and fo attached to the fect of Se- '* ceders or Whigs, as they are called in Scot- ‘* land, that I really believe he would have ** thought his falvation hazarded, if he bad ** heard or read the profane difcourfes of the ** Scotch eftablifhment. He aípired to be * the minifter of a purer church, of which ** jt was expected he would prove a chofen ** veffel. Nor is this force of religious fentiment unufual in youthful minds. Samuel Johnfon was early ftruck with fuperftitious terrour: Haller had fcarcely emerged from his infancy, when he began to preach to his father's domeftics: and in families, where the hatred of fect againft fect is cherifhed, one may generally perceive its moft virulent tokens in the boys. The moft humanized of my readers may remember, the time when. he glowed with zeal againft perfons who had been
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