Volume 1

The life and remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge / By the Rev. William Otter.

  • William Otter
Date:
1825
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Credit: The life and remains of Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Cambridge / By the Rev. William Otter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    was distinguished in the same honourable career. Nor were these instances solitary, occurring one only in each descent: for so widely diffused has been the love of literature throughout the different members of this family, that, of four entire gene- rations, beginning with Dr. Wotton and his wife Anne Hammond; of St. Alban’s, in Kent, and end- ing with Dr. Clarke, his brothers and his sister, there is scarcely a single individual, whether male or female, who, at one period or other, and in pro- portion to the opportunities offered, has not been remarkable for literary genius or taste; while many of them, by their learning and their works, have arrived at high degrees of eminence and re- putation. The character and writings of Dr. Wotton are so well known to the literary world, that a short notice of them here will be thought sufficient. Be- sides several larger works, he was the author of many tracts and dissertations, involving much clas- sical and antiquarian research. One of the earliest of these was entitled, “‘ Reflections upon Ancient and Modern Learning ;” which, being afterward published in a second edition, in 1697, with a dis- sertation of Dr. Bentley’s annexed, was the means of involving him incidentally in the celebrated con- troversy betwixt that great scholar and Mr. Boyle. From a dispute like this, in which abuse was la- vished on every side with an unsparing hand, it
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