Volume 1

The works theological, medical, political, and miscellaneous : of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S. With memoirs of the life of the author / by John Disney.

  • Jebb, John, 1736-1786.
Date:
1787
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Credit: The works theological, medical, political, and miscellaneous : of John Jebb, M.D. F.R.S. With memoirs of the life of the author / by John Disney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    Thefe digreflions did not interrupt Mr. Jebb’s lectures on the new Teftament, his private philofophical ledtures, or his own general fludies. He finished reading the hebrew bible, with Le Clerc’s commentary, the 31ft of May; and during the vacation, which he fpent at Bungay, he read Horace, Virgil, Juvenal, Perfius, part of Lucretius, and Ovid. The patronage of Mr. Jebb,'which, in . every view, would have done honour to the reputation ment; we cannot but fee, with concern and abhor- rence, the evil defigns of bad men, who, under the fpe- cious pretence of promoting the public good, are labour- ing to feducethe ignorant and unwary from their duty, by infilling into their minds needlefs fears and jealoufies] as if the conftitution was in danger. “ We truft, it ever has been our conllant endeavour, and humbly intreat your majefty’s favourable acceptance of our moft faithful affuranees, that it ever lhall be our particular care, to inftil into' the riling generation com- mitted to our charge, true principles of religion and loyalty, and fuch a fenfe of gratitude for your majelfy’s royal proteftion of this feat of learning, as will tend to make them good citizens and good fubjeds, and fully to anfwer the ends of our inftitution. “ To this teftimony of our duty and fidelity, wefliall add our unfeigned prayers to the throne of grace, that it may pleafe almighty God to preferve your majefty, the beloved fovereign of an united, loyal, and alFedionate
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