THE BEE, 



LITERARY WEEKLY LNTELLLGENCER, 



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2. I'jgi^ 



Cur/ojy Hints and Anecdotes of the late Do£lor WiLLIAM 



CULLEN of Edinburgh, contiiiuedfrom page 121. 

 It would feem as if Doctor CuUen had confidered the 

 proper bufinefs of a preceptor, to be that of putting his 

 pupils into a proper train of ftudy, fo as to enable them 

 to profecute thefe ftudies at a future period, and to car- 

 ry them on much farther than the fhort time allowed 

 for academical preleftions would admit. He did not, 

 therefore, fo much ftrive to make thofe who attended 

 his lectures, deeply verfed in the particular details of 

 objefts, as to give them a general view of the whole 

 fubjed ; to Ihew what had been already attained re- 

 fpetting it ; to point out what remained yet to be dif- 

 covered ; and to put them into a train of ftudy, that 

 Ihould enable them, at a future period, to remove thofe 

 difticulties that had hitherto obftructed our progrefs ; 

 and thus to advance of themfelves to farther and far- 

 ther degrees of perfection. If thefe were his views, 

 nothing could be more happily adapted to it than the 

 mode he invariably purfued. He firft drew, with the 

 llriking touches of a mafter, a rapid and general out- 

 line of the fubjedt, by which the whole figure was feen 

 at once to ftart boldly from the canvas, dillinft in all it» 

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