Volume 2

Memoirs of the life and a view of the character of the late Dr. John Fothergill / Drawn up at the desire of the Medical Society of London.

  • Thompson, Gilbert, 1728-1803.
Date:
1782
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Credit: Memoirs of the life and a view of the character of the late Dr. John Fothergill / Drawn up at the desire of the Medical Society of London. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * amiable tempers which nature had firft implanted. At this fchool, and for the two laft years at another at Sedberg in York- fhire, under two matters of the firft reputation for claffical learning, he attained to a competent knowledge of the Latin tongue, and fome acquaint¬ ance with the Greek; and though I have heard him fay he was not care¬ ful enough to improve the latter, it is certain that after he left thefe fchools he continued to cultivate his Latinity, fo as to read authors in that language very familiarly, and to write in it, , v efpecially on fubjedts of phyfick and natural hiftory, with fufiicient fluency. But the bent of his mind was rather to general knowledge in its multifa¬ rious branches, than to the ftudy of the learned languages, which Be re- B 3 garded