160 MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



survived almost all his early connections, and found 

 himself too far advanced in life to form new friend- 

 ships, or engage in ne\% undertakings. He had the 

 happiness, however, to he surrounded by affectionate 

 relatives, who with kindred sentiments of disinterest- 

 edness and self devotion, were emulous in the antici- 

 pation of all his wants ; nor did he ever lose the re- 

 lish for that general society, which the native playful- 

 ness of his humour, and his happy talent for conver- 

 sation, so eminently qualified him at once to embel- 

 lish and enjoy. The name, indeed, of a single friend, 

 with whom, till the close of his career, he continued 

 to maintain the closest habits of intimacy, will evince 

 more strongly than a thousand epithets, the posses- 

 sion not of powers of pleasing merely, but a power- 

 ful and masculine turn of thought and expression, 

 when among his daily associates, is found that ulti- 

 mus Bomanorum the late Dr Gregory. 



The lasting intimacy which existed between Dr 

 Wright and Dr Gregory, could not be said to 

 have arisen from any thing like a constant coincidence 

 between their views, on scientific or professional sub- 

 jects. Even, indeed, when they differed in their doc- 

 trines, and still more when they happened to concur, 

 Dr Gregory was accustomed, in his academical lec- 

 tures, to mention the name of his friend Dr Wright, 

 and the opinions which he supported on the subjects 

 under discussion, in terms of the highest respect. 

 About a year before the death of Dr. Wright, an in- 

 stance occurred of a striking and memorable nature, 

 in which the sentiments of the two friends were at va- 

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