It was within the same period (if I understood Dr. Brocklesby rightly) that he enjoined him, as an honest man and a physician, to inform him how long he thought he had to live. Dr. Brocklesby inquired, in return, whether he had firmness to learn the answer. Upon his replying that he had, and Dr. B. limiting the term to a few weeks, he said, 'that he then would trouble himself no more with medicine or medical advice:' and to this resolution he pretty much adhered x .
In a conversation about what was practicable in medicine or surgery, he quoted, to the surprise of his physicians, the opinion of Marchetti for an operation (I think) of extracting part of the kidney. He recommended for an account of China, Sir John Mandeville's Travels. Halliday's Notes on Juvenal he thought so highly of as to have employed himself for some time in translating them into Latin 2 .
He insisted on the doctrine of an expiatory sacrifice as the condition without which there was no Christianity; and urged in support the belief entertained in all ages, and by all nations, barbarous as well as polite. He recommended to Dr. Brocklesby, also, Clarke's Sermons, and repeated to him the passage which he had spoken of to me 3 .
While airing one day with Dr. B., in passing and returning by St. Pancras' church, he fell into prayer, and mentioned, upon Dr. B.'s inquiring why the Catholics chose that for their burying place, that some Catholics, in Queen Elizabeth's time, had been burnt there 4 . Upon Dr. B.'s asking him whether he did not feel the warmth of the sun, he quoted from Juvenal
quoted from this poem. Letters, ii. 4 ' Pancras, a small hamlet in
147, 192, 302, 404, 421. Middlesex, on the north-west side
1 Life, iv. 415; ante, ii. 122, 149, of London, in the road to Kentish
369. town. The churchyard is a general
3 Barten Holy day, or Holiday, pub- burying-place for persons of the
lished ini6i6averse translation of Romish religion.' Dodsley's London,
Persius. 'The posthumous edition ed. 1761, v. 105. General Paoli was
of 1673 was accompanied by a new buried there. No Catholics were
translation of Juvenal, and contains burnt by Elizabeth. ' There was
voluminous notes.' Diet. Nat. Biog. nothing in the creeds of the Puritans
xxvii. 214. or of the Catholics which, according
3 Ante, ii. 205 ; Life t iv. 414, 416 ; to law, could subject them to the
v. 88. pains of heresy ; but the Anabaptists
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