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without experimental theory, the reftoring 

 fcience could have made no progrefs ; that 

 neither time, nor all it's accumulation of 

 premature death, could have enlarged the 

 circle, in which the merely practical phyii- 

 cian condemns himfelf to walk. Strength 

 of mind, fortitude unappalled, and the per- 

 petual fuccefs which attended this great 

 man's deviations from the beaten track, 

 enabled him to fliake thofe mifts from his 

 reputation, as the lion shakes to air the 

 dewdrops on his mane. 



In 1757, he married Mils Howard, of 

 the Ciofe of Lichfield, a blooming and 

 lovely young lady of eighteen. A mind, 

 which had native ftrength; an awakened 

 tafle for the works of imagination; in- 

 genuous fweetnefs ; delicacy animated by 

 iprightlinefs, and fuftained by fortitude, 

 made her a capable, as well as fafcinating v 

 companion, even to a man of talents fo il- 

 luftrious. To her he could, with confi- 

 dence. 



