HALES. 
-Hare’s “ Difficulties rama PP aide ttend 
‘the Study of the Scriptures in the way of private Judg- 
ment,’” in — __ declared, that the > oeiade of ms had 
ver fince he under meaning of 
word, ‘ For For this,” faid he, “I have forfaken all hopes, 
the 
all friends, all defires, which bias me, and hinder me from 
driving at what I aimed ; ae this, I have {pent my money, 
me | means, my youth, m all that I have ; that I 
ht remov e from myfe 
vitio quis quid ignorat :?’ ft with all this coft and pains, 
my —— is but error, I —_ fafely fay, to err hath 
me more, than it has many to find the truth. And truth 
itfelf fhall give me this relhianout at latt, that if I have 
miffed pees is not m es misfortune.’? He fuffered 
bay llion, and was frequently 
a 
thete came out a colleétion of his works in caneen caaiad 
Golden Remains of the ever memorable John Hales of 
Eton College.” This colleétion conlifts of fermons, mif- 
ce! , and letters written on particular occafions, In 
1677 another collection of his — was publifhed under 
the title of “ Several Tracts b ever memorable Mr. 
‘* “Ele a {t uniform ein of his sneeeh was 
printed at Glafgow in three volumes 12mo. character 
given of this excellent man by bifhop Pearfon is as follows : 
« As a Chriftian none was ever better. a with the 
nature of the gofpe' pel, becaufe none more ftudious of the 
knowledge of it, or more curious in the fearch :—as he was 
liberal and candid himfelf, fo he detefted an impofing, cen- 
nd would often fay, 
e 
Here he took his de = 
or of the faeces of canon law ae ee the- 
e crowd of pupils, amon 
Bonaventure. So 
was his knowl: edge, that he obtained the title of 
Do@tor” In 1222 he embraced the monattic {tate 
at whe where he fpent the remainder of his days. He 
etme leaving gH him feveral publications, but 
of thofe t at remain no one can with certainty be pronounced 
as his, ~e the Summa: upiserise Y heologiaes - or Com- 
by order of pope Innocent Vv. "Tk has gone through many, 
ge has been printed at different. cities on the 
continent: Some of his manufcripts. are 
Page libraries, at Milne, Oxford, and L 
RS, Srernex, a pious an 
1 1! “art — 5 dties d by hi 
sseolery. divine, and 
uifhe 
— g 
——— she phylialogy of plants, was ie fixth fon. of 
of Beakeborn, | : Ken 
where he vas bora in area ‘He. ‘was,educated.in  Bene't 
+ 0 of which “on: fellow in 1702, 
ey to exilt 
Gen. in 
a . ote 
and curred. te my eee pod peri it bee 
on in which was the celebrated an: Die 
es He was advanced fucceflively to the ——" cus 
racy of Teddington, Middlefex, and to pa isting. 0 of Portleck,. 
Somerfetfhire, and F pec Hampfhire. He married the, 
daughter of a clergyman, d at the end of — khoeg 
leaving no iffue, nor did Sus ever marry again. 
to the end of his life at Teddington, where he was ‘ifited by 
perfons of rank andtafte, amongft others by Frederick late. 
prince of Wales, after whofe ae Dr. Hales was made. 
ans, — of the clofet to the princefs dowager, who always enter- 
ained a high refpe¢t for him, and after his deceafe erected a 
bearifenne monument to his memory in Weftmintter-abbey, 
near that of Handel. On this is his buft in a large medallion, 
{upported by a female figure reprefenting Botany, accompa- 
nied by Religion. The epitaphis in Latin. He refufed a 
canonry of ae cline that he might continue to devote him-. 
Pav ‘to his parochial duties, and “his favourite feientific pur- 
its, and as picty, truth, and virtue were the principles of 
tne >a ate Hh he lived in yniverfal efteem to the age of 
dying at Reading sale January 4, 1761, where he was 
ried, under the church tower, which he had rebuilt at his 
own expence 
Dr. Hates, having been cleGted.a fellow of the Ro ah So- 
ciety in 1717, communicated to that learned body hi irik 
effay in Vegetable 
experiments concerning the effeét of the fun’s heat in 
the fap. In 1727.appeared the firft edition of his Veg 
Staticks, in 8vo, illuftrated by plates, of which a ecabd 
y fo Ogys 
edition was publifhed in yaw followed afterwards by feveral ~ 
thers. 
o “his work was tra nilated into F ape ak Buffon in. 
1735, and into Italian by a Nea : 
ape in 1756. There are alfo 
he original book was, in fact, i firit hat of a} 
empitled Statical Effays, of which the fecond, relating to 
he circulation of the blood in animals, was called Hemaita- 
icks, and came out in 1733- In. this the {ubjeé of the 
urinary calculus alfo is treated chemica'ly and medically. 
With a laudable view of preventing, as well as curing, the 
publitied and crimes of his fellow -creatures, this  BneS see 
rinkers 
which shes 
fue 
venue. His invention of a ventilator for mines, 
hofpitals, and the holds of fhips, laid before the Royal § Se. 
ciety in 1741, and. apeties alfo to the veutilation and. pots 
ane uent prefervation of corn in granarie 
ie moit extenfively ufefal contrivances se the ‘ 
of health and human life. His philofophy was apie 3 
seh a ~~? 
nevolence were -conbianally, drawing. Such philofophy and 
{uch learnin e their poffeffors to igh F 
Prsch are noel beft fruits of religi on, - 
correfpondence | was extenfive 
