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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE LATE JAMES KEIR, Esc, F.r.s. Mifs Mowbray mentions that Mr. James Keir was born the acjth September, 1735, and that, as his Father died when he was very young, the care of forming his mind devolved on his Mother, who was affifted by her two brothers, Alexander and George Lind. In another manufcript it is faid that Doctor Mich Ell (a near relative through his Grandmother, who was a Mifs Mich Ell) alfo affifted in his education. Doctor Mich Ell appears to have difcovered in him, at an early period, the promife of great intellectual ability; and to have taken every opportunity to cherim his thirft for knowledge. He died on the 28th October, 1751; arid in the hope, probably, of further awakening the zeal of his young friend, he bequeathed to him, then only fix- teen years of age, many of his valuable manufcripts, which were faid to have been very remarkable for the great refearch and induftry in collecting information which they exhibited. Whilft ftudying medicine at the Edinburgh Univerfity, Mr. Keir became acquainted with Mr. Darwin?afterwards the celebrated Doctor. The friendmip between them feems to have been mutual, and to have been maintained unbroken from boyhood to the clofe of life. Alluding to Mr. Keir's having ultimately felected the Army in preference to the Medical Profeffion, Mifs Mowbray fays: What were his views in making this change is not known, but in Mrs. Moilliet's Sketch of Mr. Keir's life this point is cleared up in the following words: My Father was educated at the High School of Edinburgh and ftudied medicine at the Univerfity there, but felected the Military Profeflion for the fake of fatisfying an early and ftrong defire to fee foreign countries; and this ftatement is corroborated by a pafTage in a Latin letter which Mr. Keir himf...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780217792714
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 42
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217792715
  • Publisher Date: 02 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 95 gr


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