The life of J. G. Zimmerman, counsellor of State, and first physician to His Majesty the King of Great Britain, at Hanover, knight of the order of Wladomir, and member of several academies / translated from the French of M. Tissot, lately published at Lausanne.

  • Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David), 1728-1797.
Date:
1797
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    their right of decifion, we run no little rifle of making them indifferent as to our Hero. I will reprefent my friend to the world, fuch as I have known him for the fpace of forty years; and if I allow myfelf to praife, I mall likewife take the liberty of cenfuring. Would it be fair, that the Hiftorian fhould not have the fame right of judg- ing for himfelf, as his readers ? which would be the cafe, if he were confined to the fimple relation of facls. Who, indeed, is there, that can be fup- pofed more capable of drawing proper con- clufions, than he who has raoft feduloufly ftudied and compared the circumftances he relates ? John George Zimmerman was born at Brug, a Town in the German part of the Canton of Berne, on the 8th of December, 1728.,The family of his father, the Senator, J. Zimmerman, was one of thofe, often found in the fmal] cities of Switzerland, and, doubtlefs, equally to be met with throughout the reft of Europe-; who, without any of the titles obtained in Monarchies, fome- times by merit, not feldom by money, but oftener by favour, had been diftinguifhed for feveral ages by their integrity, their worth, their kindnefs to their fellow-citizens, and the honourable manner in which they had rilled the molt elevated offices of their native place. His mother, of the name of Pache, was the daughter of a celebrated Counfellor of Morges, in the French part of the fame Canton, who had been an Advocate in the Parliament of