Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum.

  • Wadd, William, 1776-1829.
Date:
1827
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Nugae canorae, or, Epitaphian mementos (in stone-cutters' verse) of the Medici family of modern times / by Unus Quorum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    pence per day, as a consideration for being de- serted by her family, on account of her change of religion! Dr. De Castro was a man of science and sense, and no doubt able to give substantial reasons for “ the faith that was in him and his Letter to the Heads of the Synagogue, when he abjured his religion (1758), was written in the spirit of a man of honour. In Dr. De Castro’s time, political associations and religious sects were considered excellent roads to professional success. Radcliffe and Freind owed much to the Tories and Jacobites, Mead and Hulse to the Whigs; and it was no uncom- mon thing for men to leave polemical discussions for physical disquisitions. Numbers of Dissenting Ministers became Doctors of Medicine, and some with success ; for, such was their influence with their congregations, that a marriage or a mort- gage was never made without their being con- sulted. From this influence, those who did not turn doctors themselves made their sons so. Of this class were Mead, Oldfield, Clarke, Nesbitt, Lobb, and Munckley; and it has been said of Mead, that, when he began practice, he was a constant frequenter of his father’s Meeting at Stepney ; and that when he was sent for out of the assembly, the old gentleman would, in his prayer, insert a petition for the sick person ! His Sire’s pretended pious steps he treads, And where the Doctor fails, the Saint succeeds.