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Page 151 - ... But his religious principles form his highest .honour. Religion was the object of his most serious inquiries, even from his earliest youth, at which period it was his happiness to enjoy a religious education. His comprehensive mind, ever capable of a just mode of thinking, had been happily impressed with the grand idea of a God, the great origin of all beings, and with the belief of eternity, " that ancient source as well as universal sepulchre of worlds and ages, in which the duration of this...
Page 153 - ... important one, the religion of his ancestors and of his country. Convinced of the reality of revelation, by diligently studying the scriptures, he could not behold with indifference any attacks on this fundamental law, this strongest bond of society ; and at a time when other illustrious men prostituted their fame and talents in making dangerous attacks upon religion, he thought it his duty to enter the lists as her avowed champion and defender.
Page 150 - All his writings are expressive of his love of virtue. Ever pure in his own morals, he beheld with regret the neglect of them in others ; and sincerely lamented the influence which irregularities in private life seemed likely to produce on the manners of the state. But his religious principles form his highest honour. Religion was the object of his most serious inquiries, even from his earliest youth, at which period it was his happiness...
Page 152 - ... as it actually is, by the light of a new luminary, emanating from the Divinity himself. It was impossible that a spirit thus elevated, and constantly employed in researches after truth, could neglect to inquire into that most important one, the religion of his ancestors and of his country. Convinced of the reality of revelation, by diligently studying the scriptures, he could...
Page i - Compiled, chiefly, from the ELOGIUM spoken before the / ROYAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT PARIS, / And from the Tributes paid to his Memory / BY OTHER FOREIGN SOCIETIES.
Page 79 - ... Christianity, in all his works, nor his mode of life, so conformable to the precepts of the Gospel, seemed sufficient to secure him against this imputation. He complained of it bitterly, and La Mettrie, in his answer, assumed the same tone ; and Haller had prepared to publish a long and serious refutation of the charge, when he was informed of the death of his antagonist, and discovered, that, deceived by an excess of delicacy, which was, doubtless, laudable, he alone had been made the dupe of...
Page 147 - God's works, and in doing good to his fellow-creatures, and then looked forward to his dissolution without dismay or impatience. He desired his friend and physician M. Rosselet, not to conceal from him his real situation : and this gentleman ventured to tell him that the autumn of 1777 would probably be the period of his existence. Haller exhibited no signs of fear at the information ; continued his usual mode of life ; and in his last moments employed himself in marking the decay of his organs....
Page i - His benevolent exertions in this cause, and his general reputation, procured him, in the year 181 1, the honor of an election as foreign member of the Medical Society of London, and of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Preston, in England.
Page 155 - His impatience was even fo great under the conftrained abftinence from thefe purfuits, which ficknefs fometimes occafioned, that he appeared more anxious to curtail the duration, than to eradicate the principles, of his malady. Nay, fuch was his activity, that, once, when he had broken his right arm, the furgeon, when vifiting him the next morning, was furprifed to find him writing, with fufficient facility, with his left hand. And it is furprifing, that with fuch intenfe application, he...
Page 4 - Europe, who may be juftly cunfidered as one of the prodigies of the prcfent age. He was born of a family, where piety feemed to be hereditary, and, at four years of age, he ufed to addrefs exhortations from texts of fcripture to his father's domeftics. " At the age of NINE, he had compofed, for his own ufe, a Chaldaic Grammar, a Hebrew and Greek Lexicon, and an Hiftorical Dictionary, containing near two thoufand articles, extracted from Bayle and Marer't.