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unnatural gravity * would gain him respect , though he freely owned tome orice , when I was speaking to him about it , that he laughed at himself for doing it : iC je moque de moi-m&rne , " was his expression . But dissimulation and hypocrisy were so natural to him , that he could wear any disguise , or
make any outward profession , without seeming the least uneasy , or out of countenance , provided it contributed to his interest . He began to be much out of humour , a little after he was married , because business did not come in as he expected . He said , Plymouth was a quacking place , because
some people were better pleased , to trust themselves in the hands of an old apothecary , than of a young physician who had never been used to them . He used every little art he could think of to make people believe how much
he was employed . He would often appear in boots , though he had no place to ride to ; he would often ride out at one gate and return by another , though he had no patient to visit ; and he scarce ever went to Church but his
boy must be sent to call him out , though he had nothing in the world to do . And thus he went on , abusing himself and cheating the world , and inwardly cursing the apothecaries , who did not think it worth their while to
recommend him , till , luckily for him , Dr . Seymour's first madness broke out . He then began to be taken notice of by the Church party as well as the Dissenters , upon which he began to shew his gratitude to the latter , by declaring that he never thought himself
the least obliged tp them . Hi& practice increased daily , and in very few years he got an estate . And that he might be known the better , he wrote up several cases which he met with ,
to Dr . Jurin , Secretary to the Royal Society : by this means he contracted a correspondence with him , and at last got himself chosen a Fellow of that honourable body . Thus he was soon introduced into the best
business both of town and country , and was thereby enabled to live in that splendour which he once never expected , and which on many accounts he never deserved . Far he was ft man that seemed to be actuated in most
parts of life by craft and treachery : he would do almost any thing for his interest , and seemed to have very little
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regard to truth | p any thing that he said . He was naturally |* r < dtid and ungrateful ; for nothing could mortify him more ,, than to be spoke to by a relati&il or a friend who knew any thing of him ^ or his pedigree . If he could not shun such a person , he would pretend not to know him , and if he was made
sensible at last who the person was , he would receive him with great shyness and indifference . He affected much to taik of God and religion to his patients , though I have seen and heard such discourse come so very fulsome from him , that the common
sort of people have despised him for it ; and very justly , for I doubt he never much regarded either any further than he could make tools of them to promote his interest . As a scholar he was allowed to understand Latin well ,
and to be thoroughly acquainted with books . As a physician he would have shined more , if in his prescriptions he had consulted the interest of the apothecary less and of the patient more . He was very indefatigable in his business , and spared no pains by night or
day to visit if occasion required . Nor was he griping for his fee like Seymour , but was generally esteemed moderate in hi 3 demands , and very compassionate and generous sometimes to the sick poor . He was very tenacious of his opinion and practice when contradicted
by any physician , and would rather sacrifice a patient than suffey himself to be thought mistaken or smother in the right . He kept a decent character with regard to his morals , and was guilty of very few excesses in any shape .
He was reckoned a very good anatomist and natural philosopher , and had , upon the whole , knowledge and learning sufficient to support his character in business , but neither honesty nor virtue to make him esteemed or respected .
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Copies of Orig-inal Letters fi * om Mr ( afterwards Archbishop ) Seeker and Mr . ( afterwards Dr . ) Chand lev , to Mr . Fox :
From Mr . Seeker . London , May \ 5 thf 171 G . Dear Sir , I received your letter just as I began to feel the first disorders of a fever , which has held me for some time , and obliges me now to seek a little fresh a" * iu the country . But neither could W
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506 Original Letter from Mr . ( afterwards Archbishop ) Seeker .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 506, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/2/
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