A farewell-oration to the chair of the College of Physicians, London. Spoken in the Comitia, the day after Saint Michael, MDCCLXVII / [William Browne].

  • Browne, William, 1692-1774
Date:
1768
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Credit: A farewell-oration to the chair of the College of Physicians, London. Spoken in the Comitia, the day after Saint Michael, MDCCLXVII / [William Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ « ] Neftor, lived to fee three ages, both as Praefident, and as man. But two years more than latisfie me: for, that each of the Ele&s may in his turn hold the fceptre of prudence, far more defirable than power, given by Caius, which * the law ofjuflice and aequity recommends, H- No tenure pleafes longer than a year. But in truth, among fuch endearing friendlhips with you, fuch delightful converfations, fuch ufeful com¬ munications, with which this amiable fituation hath bleffed me, one or two things, as is ufual, have happened not at all to my fatisfadfion. One, that, while moft ftudious of peace myfelf, I hoped to have praeferved the peace of the College fecure and intire, I too foon found, that it was not otherwife to be fought for than by war: but even after our firft adverfary, becaufe inconfiderable, was in- ftantly overthrown, and his head completely cut off by the hand of the Law, yet from the fame neck, as if Hydra had been our enemy, fomany other heads broke out, yea and, with inhuman violence, broke into this very fenate, like J monfters fwimming in our medical fea, whom I beheld with unwilling indeed, * Horace, Satyr III. B. I. v. 98. Utility, mother of juft and right. •f* The fame, Ode XXIV, B. III. v. 14. X The fame, Ode III, B. I. v. 18. but