An account of the life and writings of Edmund Dickinson, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to King Charles and King James II. : To which is added, A treatise on the Grecian games, printed from the Doctor's own manuscript ... / By William Nicolas Blomberg.

  • Blomberg, William Nicolas, approximately 1702-1750.
Date:
1739
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the life and writings of Edmund Dickinson, M.D., Physician in Ordinary to King Charles and King James II. : To which is added, A treatise on the Grecian games, printed from the Doctor's own manuscript ... / By William Nicolas Blomberg. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Appleton in Berkshire, and Mary, Daughter of Edmund Colepepper, of Hollingbourn in Kent, Efq; was born September z6, 1624. He received his firft Rudiments of Learning at Eaton School; from whence he was fent Poll- _ . mafter to Merton College in Fortionijta. r i i t t ^ t-v Uxjord, and took the De«* gree of Batchelor of Arts, June %z, 1647. ’T was now, after he had got over the dry and unplealant Study of Words and Logick, that, by an Ap¬ plication fo intenfe, as fometimes to lpend Sixteen Hours out of the Twen¬ ty-four, he began to be fenlible of the leveral Beauties of the Syriack, Hebrew and Greek Hiftory. Shall we lay this arole from the Genius of thole Times, in which nothing recommended more to the Favour of the Great, than pro¬ found § Was Chaplain to William Earl of Pembroke, and publifhed, Lhe King’s Right, briefly Jet down, in a Sermon before the Judges of Afllze, held in Reading, for the County of Bucks, 28 June, 1619? on Pfalm Ixxv. 7. London.