A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world / By John Gregory.

  • John Gregory
Date:
1788
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Credit: A comparative view of the state and faculties of man with those of the animal world / By John Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and how they came into the world, are queftions which a reader will never afk : he has an undoubted right to cenfure them with all the feverity which their faults deferve, and to cenfure likewife the author of them, unlefs he could pre- tend they were publifhed without his knowlege. The unexpetted favour he has met with from the public has encou- raged him to corre¢t and enlarge this e- dition ; but, when he attempted to treat his fubject with that fulnefs and accuracy which its importance required, he found it run into fo great an extent, that he was obliged to abandon it, being necef- farily engaged in bufinefs and ftudies of a very different nature. He would gladly have fuppreiled fome fentiments carelefsly thrown out in the confidence of private friendfhip, which.may be liable to mif- conftruGtion ; but he was afraid that, by too
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