Some account of the life and character of the late Thomas Bateman, M.D. F.L.S. physician to the public dispensary and to the fever institution in London / [James Rumsey].

  • Rumsey, James, 1778-1856.
Date:
1826
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    way he should go, and when he is okl, he will not depart from it! And what is there, in- deed, in this sublunary scene which does not in like manner demand our best diligence in order fo its perfection ? Do we expect intellectual improvement of any kind without labour ? That the memory, for example, should be ex- act, or the taste refined, without constant pains to exercise the one and enlighten the other ? Why shall we leave faculties of more import- ance than all besides to their own course, as if a fear for them were too unnatural to justify any care but about their extreme excesses ? To them, indeed, we must attend; or they would soon grow too vehement and too mischievous to be borne. But the remedies required on such emergencies are themselves also extreme ; so that matters, instead of being made better by them, are not seldom left in reality worse. What evil of any other description do we see springing up, and permit to get a head of us, l?efore we interfere ? Do we wait for the em- bers to bui'st into a conflagration? What else, among all the varieties of human oflfence, o