An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish].

  • Kentish, Richard, 1730-1792.
Date:
1787
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Credit: An essay on the method of studying natural history, being an oration delivered to the Societas Naturae Studiosorum, at Edinburgh, in the year 1782 / [Richard Kentish]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to fpeak juftly and reafon rightly, arc objects of his attention. The flowers of rhetorick and the ornaments of fpeech he ftudies not. Though he admires them in others, he is apt to difregard them as ufelefs and often prejudicial to philofophy, To im¬ prove the heart and inflruct the head, are objects of his attention. You, Gentlemen, as a Society of Philofo- phers, will therefore, I truft, excufe the want of eloquence in your Prefi- dent; vou will hearken to what he may fay with readinefs, and iiflen to the matter, regardlefs of the manner. To thank you for the honor I have received is not fuflicient ; unprovided therefore as I am with a rich “ ward¬ robe of words,” unadorned as my ar¬ gument may appear, I fhall attempt to compenfate for this defect by calling your attention for a few moments to objects worthy of your confideration. As an original Member of this Society, you