Six DiscoursesW. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783 - 282페이지 |
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xlix 페이지 - Confidering, therefore, the extreme attention that was paid by him to the various and important duties of his office, and the great pains he took in the preparation of his Difcourfes, it was natural to expect that the burthen of his honourable ftation fhould grow heavy upon him in a courfe of time. This burthen was increafed not only by the...
liv 페이지 - The vivacity of fpirits, which, in the days of youth, fpreads fuch a charm on the objects that furround us, was fled. Many, if not moft, of Sir John Pringle's old friends and contemporaries, were dead ; and, though...
192 페이지 - Allow me then, GENTLEMEN, to deliver this medal, with his unperishing name engraven upon it, into the hands of one who will be happy to receive that trust, and to know that this respectable Body never more cordially nor more meritoriously bestowed that faithful symbol of their esteem and affection.
lxi 페이지 - ... to medicine in particular. Lord Bacon was his favourite author ; and to the method of inveftigation, recommended by that great man, he fteadily adhered. Such being his intellectual character, it will not be thought furprifing, that he had a diflike to Plato. The...
80 페이지 - Time, make experiments and inductions, distrust their intellects, confide in facts and in their senses : and by these arts drawing aside the veil of Nature, find a mean and groveling animal armed with lightning, that awful and celestial fire, revered by the ancients as the peculiar attribute of the father of their...
xlix 페이지 - Pringle was in the fixty-fixth year of his age, that he was chofen to be Prefident of the Royal Society. Confidering, therefore, the extreme attention that was paid by him to the various and important duties of his office, and the great pains he took in the preparation of his Difcourfes, it was natural to expect that the burthen of his honourable ftation fhould grow heavy upon him in a courfe of time.
32 페이지 - London, inftitutcd for the improvement of natural knowledge, I prefent you with this medal, the palm and laurel of this community, as a faithful and unfading teft'imony of their regard...
xxxiv 페이지 - Pringle had reason to be peculiarly satisfied with the subject of his fourth discourse ; that subject being perfectly congenial to his disposition and studies. His own life had been much employed in pointing out the means which tended not only to cure, but to prevent, the diseases of mankind ; and it is probable, from his intimate friendship with capt.
xxxv 페이지 - Here are no vain boastings of the empiric, nor ingenious and delusive theories of the dogmatist ; but a concise...
xlviii 페이지 - In the succeeding year, March 29, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Belles Lettres at Naples. The...