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extraordinary, but he still denied the Fa<5t; and
after fifteen Years Imprisonment, his Friends, by
their Importunity, saved his Life, and even, as
I suppose, obtained his Liberty ; which yet he
enjoyed not long, for some Months after his
Deliverance, the young Marquess, which was
the Child I spoke of, ssiot him with a Pistol in
the Head, and so revenged the Death of his Mo-
ther. He is at present in Germany, in the Empe-
ror’s Service.
There are in this City several Cabinets of Cu-
riosities, and a great number of skilful Antiqua-
ries. But it mult be acknowledg’d, that Mr. Ta tin,
Professor of Physick, excels all the Criticks in the
World, in explaining the Intricacies of Antiqui-
ty. For ’tis certain, that never any Man was
Master of a truer and more judicious Talle for
these Curiosities, of a more extensive Knowledge
in all other respe&s, or of a more obliging and
communicative Temper.
'Twou’d be unreasonable to leave Padua, with-
out giving you some account of the University;
tho’ it mull be acknowledg’d, that ’tis at present
in a very mean Condition. For of Ten Colleges,
* The Oxe- there are Nine employ’d in other uses: But * that
College Jo calld which remains is a pretty fine Building. There
^andsina ’s nothing more requir’d to become a Divine
fiac/whe^e here, than to learn by rote those wretched Schoos-
there sor- men whose Dochine is as opposite to true Divi-
meriy an im nity as Darkness is to Light. The pretended
sor the Philosophy of Ariftotle is that with which they
sign. 'Us also are only acquainted. And he that has furnilh’d
can'd, The himself with a sufficient Stock of Sentences out
Thm are^El' ^PPocrates an<^ Galen, and is able to quote ’em
their own Language, without forgetting the
in is, and a Book, Chapter, or Paragraph, passes, without
sine Anatomi- dispute, for a Learned and expert Physician.
cal Theater.
There
extraordinary, but he still denied the Fa<5t; and
after fifteen Years Imprisonment, his Friends, by
their Importunity, saved his Life, and even, as
I suppose, obtained his Liberty ; which yet he
enjoyed not long, for some Months after his
Deliverance, the young Marquess, which was
the Child I spoke of, ssiot him with a Pistol in
the Head, and so revenged the Death of his Mo-
ther. He is at present in Germany, in the Empe-
ror’s Service.
There are in this City several Cabinets of Cu-
riosities, and a great number of skilful Antiqua-
ries. But it mult be acknowledg’d, that Mr. Ta tin,
Professor of Physick, excels all the Criticks in the
World, in explaining the Intricacies of Antiqui-
ty. For ’tis certain, that never any Man was
Master of a truer and more judicious Talle for
these Curiosities, of a more extensive Knowledge
in all other respe&s, or of a more obliging and
communicative Temper.
'Twou’d be unreasonable to leave Padua, with-
out giving you some account of the University;
tho’ it mull be acknowledg’d, that ’tis at present
in a very mean Condition. For of Ten Colleges,
* The Oxe- there are Nine employ’d in other uses: But * that
College Jo calld which remains is a pretty fine Building. There
^andsina ’s nothing more requir’d to become a Divine
fiac/whe^e here, than to learn by rote those wretched Schoos-
there sor- men whose Dochine is as opposite to true Divi-
meriy an im nity as Darkness is to Light. The pretended
sor the Philosophy of Ariftotle is that with which they
sign. 'Us also are only acquainted. And he that has furnilh’d
can'd, The himself with a sufficient Stock of Sentences out
Thm are^El' ^PPocrates an<^ Galen, and is able to quote ’em
their own Language, without forgetting the
in is, and a Book, Chapter, or Paragraph, passes, without
sine Anatomi- dispute, for a Learned and expert Physician.
cal Theater.
There