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concomitant circumftances, whenever he had occafion to re- 

 fer to it. It was this faculty which fo much abridged his la- 

 bour in ftudy, and enabled him fo happily to avail himfelf 

 of the labour of others in all his literary fpeculations. He 

 ■often reaped more by the convefiiition of an hour, than an- 

 other man would have done in whole weeks of laborious 

 fludy. 



In his preldflions, Doftor Cullen never attempted to 

 read. His lectures were delivered w-va voce^ without having 

 been prcvioufly put into writing, or thrown Into any par- 

 ticular arrangement. The vigour of his mind was fuch, 

 that nothing more was ncccflary than a itw fliort notes be- 

 fore him, merely to prevent him from varying from the 

 general order he had been accuflomed to obferve. This 

 gave to his difcourfes an eafc, a vivacity, a variety, and a 

 force, that are rarely to be met with in academical difcourfes. 

 His ledlures, by confequencc, upon the fame fubjeft, were 

 never exadly the fame. Their general tenor indeed was 

 not much varied ; but the particular illuflrations were al- 

 ways new, well fuited to the circumflances that attrafted 

 the general attention of the day, and were delivered in the 

 particular way that accorded with the call of mind the 

 prelecT;or found himfelf in at the time. To thefe circum- 

 ftances rtuft be afcribed that energetic artlcfs elocution, 

 which rendered his leiTtures fo generally captivating to his 

 hearers. Even thofe who could not follow him in thofe ex- 

 tenfive views his penetrating mind glanced at, or who were 

 notable to underhand thofe aptallufions to collateral objeiSls, 

 -he could only rapidly point at as he went along, could 

 hot help being warmed in fome meafure by the vivacity of his 

 manner. But to thofe who could follow him in his rapid career, 

 the ideas he fiiggeflcd were fo numerous; the views he laid 

 open were fo extenfive ; and the objeds to be attained 

 were fo important, that every a>5\ive faculty of the mind 

 was roufed ; and fuch an ardour of enthufiafni was excited 

 ill the profccution of fludy, as appeared to be pcrfeiflly in- 

 explicable to thofe who were merely unconcerned fjpcdators- 



