238 Continuation of the Comparisoji of the 



they showed it to my well-looking brothers and sisters : all 

 the pranks that I, poor pock-pitted boy, to whose feet no 

 dancing-master had given the right position, or drawn the 

 head from between the shoulders, played in my vi- 

 vacity, might indeed have been performed with an ill 

 grace. 



'' * This too, I should observe, was the period when the 

 chief art of education consisted in hard words and blows. 

 On me reproaches rained from all quarters. When my 

 parents, who alone treated me with any degree of sense, 

 carried m.e to Haarburg; my grandmother and a brisk grand- 

 aunt so maltreated poor George, that my father and mother 

 were extremely unwilling I should repeat the visit. In my 

 grandfather's favour I stood all the higher, for he was stock- 

 blind; so could not judge of me by my exterior.' — From 

 his subsequent history — particularly from the hypochon- 

 driacal complaint into which he afterwards fell — it should 

 seem that this man, wise and useful as he proved, never 

 entirely recovered of the wound inflicted on his tender mind." 

 What then can be hoped where fevi-er resources exist, and 

 fewer favourable circumstances concur in riper years ? 



The cow-pock fiever deprives any one of sight. 



There scarce needs a comment on the advantage of the 

 cow-pock over the small-pox, as here stated. The blessing 

 of vision, so often destroyed by ■A.smuU-pox pustule settling 

 on the eve, is but too obvious to be much insisted on. How 

 feeliniTly does Milton deplore this loss ! 



Thus with the year 



Seasons r,:ii(rn ; but tioi to -mc r f turns 



Day, or the sweet approach of ev"n or morn. 



Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, 



Or flocks or herds, or hum.nn face divine ; 



But ciouci instead, and cvcr-duringdark. 



Surrounds mc, — from the cheerful ways of men 



Cut off, — and for the book of knowledge fair 



Presented with an universal blank 



Of nature's works, tome expung'dand raz'd, 



And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 



The cow-pock is so mild a disease as rarely to prevent 

 the patient froin pursuing his daily avocation. 



This is an advantage over the small-pox particularly to 

 be considered with regard to the army and navy. 



Dr. Marshall reported to the comniittee of the house of 

 conniions, that he, assisted by Dr. John Walker, com- 

 menced, in July 1 800, vaccination on board of his majesty's 



ship 



