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that could induce a ftudent to think lightly of tlieir 

 talents as profeflbrs, or their abilities as phyficians. 

 This circumftance is here brought forward merely as 

 a charafttriftical trait, — as an unequivocal mark, of that 

 magnanimity and dignity of character, which a little 

 mind could never be taught to attain. 



Thefe attempts of ?. party of fludents to lower^ the 

 characler of Cullen on his lirft outfet in the Univer- 

 lity of Edinburgh, having proved fruitlefs, his fame as 

 a profefTor, and his reputation as a phyfician, became 

 more and more refpefted eveiyday. Nor could it well 

 be otherwife : Cullen's profcirional knowledge was al- 

 ways great, and his n.anner of leduring Angularly clear 

 and intelligible, lively, and entertaining ; and to his 

 patients, his conduft in general as a phyfician was fo 

 pleafing, his addrefs fo affable and engaging, and his 

 manner fo open, fo kind, and fo little regulated by 

 pecuniary confiderations, that it was impofTible for thofe. 

 ■who had occafion to call once for his medical afliftance, 

 ever to be fatisfied on any future occafion without it. 

 He became the friend and companion of every family 

 he vifited ; and his future acquaintance could not be 

 difpenfed with. 



Yo be continued. 



On the Advantages of Periodical Performances. 



Man is the only animal we know, that pofleires the 

 power of aggregate exillence. All other animals may 

 be faid to exift individually ; that is to fay, each in. 

 dividual, after it comes into the world, is dircftcd on- 

 ly by its own iniiincls, obfcrvation and experience, 'to 

 purfue the mode of condud: that is fuited to its nature, 

 and the cirumftances in which it finds itfelf placed. 

 Hence it happens, that the aggregate powers of anj 



