178 . MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 



he had a regular list of pensioners, who would have 

 had serious cause to lament his death, had not the 

 successors to his fortune been also the inheritors of 

 many of his virtues. Endowed with all the amiable 

 qualities of his species, yet ready to acknowledge how 

 far his purest purposes fell short of perfection, the 

 words from his lips would have been singularly appro- 

 priate as a short but comprehensive summary of his 

 character : 



" Homo sum, humani nihil, a me alienum puto" 



About a year before his death, Dr Wright pur- 

 chased a place of interment in the Grey Friars' Church- 

 yard, which now bears the following inscription : 



