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This weak & unpromising habit of body from
with Descartes Father Paul & Virgil our own Pope & many
of these beings
Inventors, as if the extraordinary
portion of spirits ch
such forward souls overpowered
& oppressed the chAll my contempo
raries will immediately have
in their thoughts another instance
now amongst us whose infirm
state of health from his cradle
seemed to cutt off all hopes of
what he has since proved the
delight & ornament of his
country, &
allay to that perpetual fund of
pleasure he to all that
know him – He is
all others in the M & so much
alone in the Muses' seat that
it would be high injustice
to think it necessary to name
him ——