The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell].

  • Archibald Pitcairne
Date:
1740
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The whole works ... / Done from the Latin original by George Sewell ... and J.T. Desaguliers ... With some account of the author [by Sewell]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    P REF AC E. Concerns obliged him to retire into his own Country, where his Fame had al¬ ready made Way for an honourable En¬ tertainment among all Perfons of the belt Senfe and Quality. Here he con¬ tinued his Practice with equal Applaufe and Succefs, keeping at the fame Time a Correspondence with moll of the great Men of the Faculty in all Parts of Europe, whom either his Writings or Converfa- tion at Leyden had made his Friends and Admirers. Indeed he was the freed: and mod communicative of his Advice of any Perfon, perhaps, that ever made fo eminent a Figure in his Profeffion, never refufing either to fatisfy by Letter the Curiofty, or inform the Mind of the Enquirer. His Friendfbip with the great Bellini, and Monf. Hecquet, mull never be forgotten; and it is evi¬ dent from their Writings, that they feemed to be proud of that Name, and took all Occafions to do Juftice to the Merit of their Friend. This
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