Memoirs of William Hawes, M.D. of London / [William Hawes].

  • Hawes, William, 1736-1808
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of William Hawes, M.D. of London / [William Hawes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if every one, who can do it, would relieve one only who cannot relieve himfelf,happinefs would be infinitely multiplied to the donor as well as to the receiver.”—Thus has reafoned, at lead thus has afted, that man whofe traits of character we wifli briefly to delineate, that others, by perceiving how much good may be effefted by one individual, may be animated to become members of that group of chara&ers who live for others more than for themfelves; for, alas! the good as well as the bad are haftening to that bourne which neither the prince nor the beggar can elude; and the writer of thefe lines often contemplates the grey hairs of his friend Dr. Hawes with a folicitude, in anticipating that chafin which his paffage to the grave would occafion; and hardly dares to indulge a hope, that upon fome contemporary who may furvive him, the fpirit that then a&uated the archetype may defeend. At this time he is about fixty-five years of age*, pofleffing his ufual flow of fpirits among his friends, and fociety in general; but, with his ufual cheerfulnefs, if a fubje& be * Dr. Hawes, we believe, was born at Iflington, about the year 1736; and, after finifhing his education at St. Paul's fchool, lived with Mr. Carfau, an ingenious medical practitioner In the vicinity of Vauxhali^