Volume 1

Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Percival, M.D. ... To which is added, a selection from his literary correspondence / [Edward Percival].

  • Percival, Edward, -1827.
Date:
1807
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Credit: Memoirs of the life and writings of Thomas Percival, M.D. ... To which is added, a selection from his literary correspondence / [Edward Percival]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ‘¢ for the fuavity of his manners.” ‘Their acquains tance was renewed at Paris ; where Mr. Hume was then refident as fecretary to the Englifh embafly; and where, (as the fubjeét of this memoir ufed to obferve,} amid{t a crowd of flatterers; He alone appeared infen- fible to the artifices or the fedutions of vanity. At the houfe of Dr. Robertfon, Mr. Percival was a fre- received, left in his mind a pleafing and grateful remembrance. During two winters he refided in the family of Mrs. Symes, the filter of the hiftorian, (and newly-appointed Principal of the univerfity,) to whofe recommendation he was indebted for that benefit: his admifhion to a fociety which he knew well to ad- mire and value; and the conneétion of friendfhip formed by this means was preferved and revived by occalional correfpondence, to the termination of Dr: Robertfon’s life.* * Befides the fociety to which Mr. Percival was introduced by his acquaintance with thefe diftinguifhed perfons, and feveral of the Profeflors, he had occafionally the opportunity of mingling with a variety of individuals, eminent for their rank or learning, at the weekly entertainments of'the late Earl of Hopetown, in the neigh- bourhood of Edinburgh, and of Provoft Drummond, in that city. *