Volume 1

Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters.

Date:
[1819?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Portraits and lives of remarkable and eccentric characters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Open to all in thatdty, as well as those who resorted thither from London, who found apartments there as ready as in the colleges; nor did the lord of the house know of their coming or going, nor who were in it till he came to dinner or supper, where all sat down together. With him there was no troublesome ceremony or unnecessary etiquette} every thing was conducted with the most pleasing affability; so that many went thither to study finding in his library every book they could desire, and a society of the most agreeable and illustrious personages. This mode of life being so congenial to his disposition, he remained in the country for many years; during which period he made himself complete master of the Greek tongue, an object he was resolved to accomplish before ever he re¬ turned to London* Pursuant to this resolution, he applied himself assiduously to his studies: and, before he was twenty-three years of age, he perused all the Greek and Latin fathers, and was indefatigable in looking over every work of im¬ portance that was published, which he accumu¬ lated together at a great expense, and caused to be transmitted to him from all parts, comprising the