Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum.

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1827
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Credit: Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    Arbuthnot got up to ask what distortion of the muscles of a man’s face it was that constituted a grimace ? Woodward, however, was expelled; and somebody having pleaded in his favour that he was a good natural philosopher ; Sir Isaac re- marked, that in order to belong to that Society, a man ought to be a good moral philosopher, as well as a natural one. XIV. Doctors MOSELEY and ROWLEY. Par nobile fratrum. Here lie, as queer a pair as ever Were by their peers accounted clever ; They kick’d Vaccina out of town, And pull’d poor Dr. Jenner down; They purg’d the schools of solecism, Refined pedantic barbarism. Their silken phrase made logic run As smooth as calmed Helicon, But oh! they ’re gone — then welcome be Dulness and Stupidity. Vaccination, like Inoculation, had at its first in- troduction a great many enemies, but none greater