A letter to Dr. Thomson in answer to the Case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington Esq / By William Douglas.

  • Douglas, William, 1711 or 1712-
Date:
1746
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Credit: A letter to Dr. Thomson in answer to the Case of the Right Honourable Thomas Winnington Esq / By William Douglas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ftiggeft any Thing, you thought them very improper in the prefent State of fuch a Dif- eafe. I find the Obfervatlon, that Knowledge and Modefty generally go together, as well as Impudence and Ignorance, is true. All the while you aflumed more Judgment than became you, you was plunged in Error; no fooner do you own yourfelf at the End of your Judgme72t, but you fliow fomething like Judgment; for though you could not tell what was proper to be done, you could what was improper. But when with Affec¬ tation of deep Judgment you obferved, ij he took any AJlringents, he could not live many Hours, you had not then Judgment enough to fee he was adually dying, and could not live many Hours, whether he took any thing or nothing. To draw to a Conclufion, 1 have all a- lon'g reafoned with you upon the Suppofition of thus Jlands the loud clamoured Cafe of Mr Winnington : Allowing his Cafe to be rightly ftated, in the Courfe of which, I hope, I have convinced the Reader, that you cannot write proper Englijl^ when left to yourfelf^: That you cannot write Senfe when you write Pbyfic J': That you do not know * Pag, lo. Ibidem. Pag. 12. line 3.
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