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a Man born without legs or knees
pose him another Friar Bacon. As a proof of his industry
it is known, that a Latin Translation of the Bible, on vel-
Lum, either made, or copied by him, was once in the Kent.-
church family ; but has been mislaid or destroyed a long
rime since.
His other known. vrorks were, Commentaries on the
Master of the Sentences—Sermons to the People—and
Disputed Questions. He died in 13-18, in the reign of
Henry V.; and the Catalogue of the Provincial Ministers,
says of him—cc Brother John Went, Doctor of Oxford,
w ho wrought miracles in his lifetime, lies at Hereford.”—
According to others, he was a Bard of Owen Glendotver,
who, on the defeat of this chieftain, became domesticated
in the family of the Scudamores one of whom married
the daughter of the celebrated Owen.
A MAN BORN WITHOUT LEGS OR KNEES.
1 here is now living in the parish of Ednam, the birth-
place of the immortal poet Thomson, a young man 18 years
of age, who was born without legs or knees, and his thighs
defective. His father was a day-labourer, but has been
dead some years :—he sits upon a table in the cottage
through the dav, and when the weather is fair, his mother
carries him into a field, where he reads and enjoys the air.
He has taught himself to read, to -write a legible hand, to
play on the flute, to draw with a pencil, although one of
his arms he cannot raise to his breast; and he attempts
poetry. He is, notwithstanding the want of exercise, very
healthy, always cheerful and contented, though his support,
entirely depends on the wages of his younger brother, who
is servant to a respectable farmer at Ednam. He is very
grateful to any person who lends him books, drawings to
copy, or pays the least attention to him. His diet is ex-
ceedingly sparing.- The lameness of one of his legs pre-
vents
a Man born without legs or knees
pose him another Friar Bacon. As a proof of his industry
it is known, that a Latin Translation of the Bible, on vel-
Lum, either made, or copied by him, was once in the Kent.-
church family ; but has been mislaid or destroyed a long
rime since.
His other known. vrorks were, Commentaries on the
Master of the Sentences—Sermons to the People—and
Disputed Questions. He died in 13-18, in the reign of
Henry V.; and the Catalogue of the Provincial Ministers,
says of him—cc Brother John Went, Doctor of Oxford,
w ho wrought miracles in his lifetime, lies at Hereford.”—
According to others, he was a Bard of Owen Glendotver,
who, on the defeat of this chieftain, became domesticated
in the family of the Scudamores one of whom married
the daughter of the celebrated Owen.
A MAN BORN WITHOUT LEGS OR KNEES.
1 here is now living in the parish of Ednam, the birth-
place of the immortal poet Thomson, a young man 18 years
of age, who was born without legs or knees, and his thighs
defective. His father was a day-labourer, but has been
dead some years :—he sits upon a table in the cottage
through the dav, and when the weather is fair, his mother
carries him into a field, where he reads and enjoys the air.
He has taught himself to read, to -write a legible hand, to
play on the flute, to draw with a pencil, although one of
his arms he cannot raise to his breast; and he attempts
poetry. He is, notwithstanding the want of exercise, very
healthy, always cheerful and contented, though his support,
entirely depends on the wages of his younger brother, who
is servant to a respectable farmer at Ednam. He is very
grateful to any person who lends him books, drawings to
copy, or pays the least attention to him. His diet is ex-
ceedingly sparing.- The lameness of one of his legs pre-
vents