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32 ANNUAL REGISTER For the YEAR 1772. 33

and I have learned by experience, that pedlars and painters cannot give credit long. The king smiled, and said, he had but lately ordered him 1000 l. Yes, Sir, replied he, but that was soon paid away, and I have no gold left. At that rate, said the king, you would spend more than I do to maintain my family. True, answered Verrio; but does your majesty keep open table as I do?

The revolution was by no means agreeable to Verrio's religion or principles. He quitted his place, and ever refused to work for King William. From that time, he was for some years employed at the Lord Exeter's at Burleigh, and afterwards at Chatsworth; at the former, he painted several chambers, which are reckoned amongst his best works. He has placed his own portrait in the room where he represented the history of Mars and Venus; and for the Bacchus bestriding a hogshead, he has, according to his usual liberty, borrowed the countenance of a dean, with whom he was at variance. At last, by persuasion of Lord Exeter, he condescended to serve King William, and was sent to Hampton-Court, where, among other things, he patient the great stair-cafe, and as ill, as he had spoiled it out of principle. His eyes failing him, Queen Anne gave him a pension of 200l. a year for life, but he did not enjoy it long, dying at Hampton-Court in 1707.

Anecdotes of Boerhaave.
Though we have in a former volume, given a general character of this great man, we doubt not but the following additional particulars of his life, will be acceptable to our readers.

Herman Boerhaave was born at Woerhout, new Leyden, in the year 1668. This great physician has given us the institutes of medicine, which he wrote for the instruction of his pupils; Aphorisms upon the Knowledge and Cure of Disorders: he may be stiled the Euclid of physicians, and these the elements of chemistry. This last work is considered as the masterpiece of this illustrious man, who has published several other useful works.

From the time of the learned Hippocrates, no physician has more justly merited the esteen of his contemporaries, and the thanks of posterity, than Boerhaave. He united to an uncommon genius, and extraordinary talents, the qualities of the heart, which give them so great a value to society. He is painted to us as above the middle size, and well proportioned; of a strong, robust constitution. He made a decent simple, and venerable appearance, particularly when age had changed the colour of his hair: in word, he greatly resembled the picture that is given us of Socrates: he had the fame features but they were softened, and more engaging. He was an eloquent orator, and declaimed with dignity and grace. He taught very methodically, and with great precision; he never tired his auditors, but they always regretted that his discourses were finished. He would sometimes give them a lively turn with raillery; but his raillery was refined and ingenious, and it enlivened the subject he treated of, without carrying with it any thing severe or satyrical. A declared foe to all excess, he considered decent mirth as the salt of life. Morning and evening he consecrated to study: he gave the public part of the time which intervened; the rest was for his friends and his amusement. When health would permit, he regularly rode on horseback; when his strength began to fail him, he walked on foot; and upon his return home, music, of which he was passionately fond, made the hours of relaxation glide agreeable away, and enabled him to return to his labours with redoubled alacrity.

Boerhaave, at the age of fifteen, found himself without parents, protection, advice, or fortune. He had already studied theology, and the other ecclesiastical sciences, with the design of devoting himself to clerical life; but the science of nature, which equally engaged his attention, soon engrossed his whole time. He practised physic, after being recieved doctor in that science in 1693. This illustrious physician, whose name afterwards sread throughout the world, and who left at hid death above 200,000l. sterling, could at that time barely live by his labours, and was compelled to teach the mathemativs to obtain necessaries. His merit being at length discovered, many powerful friends patronized him, and procured him three valuable employments; the first was that of professor of chemistry; and thirdly, that of professor of botoany. The Academy of Sciences at Paris, and the Royal Society at London, invited him to become one of their members. He communicated to
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each his discoveried in chemistry. The city of Leyden became in his time the school of Europe for this science, as well as medicine and botany. All the princes of Europe sent him disciples, who found in this skilful professor, not only an indefatigable teacher, but even a tender father, who encouraged them to pursue their labours, consoled them in their afflictions, and solaced them in their wants.

When Peter the Great went to Holland in 1715, to instruct himself in maritime affairs he also attended Boerhaave to recieve his lessons.

His reputation was spread as far as China: a Mandarine wrote to him with this inscription, To the illustrious Boerhaave, physician in Europe, and the letter came regulary to him. 

The city of Leyden have raised a monument in the church of St. Peter, to the salutary genius of Boerhaave, Salutifero Boerhaavii genio sacrum. It consists of an urn upon a pedestal of black marble; fix heads, four of which represent the four ages of life, and two the sciences in which Boerhaave excelled, form a group issuing between the urn and its supporters. The capital of this basis is decorated with a drapery of white marble, in which the artist has sheen the different emblems of disorders and their remedies. Above, upon the surface of the pedestal, is the medallion of Boerhaave, at the medallion of Boerhaave, at the extremity of the frame, a ribband displays the favourite motto of this learned man: Simplex sigilum veri, Truth unarrayed.

Boerhaave, after passing an uneventful and agreeable life, departed this world in the year 1738, aged fifty-nine,
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Transcription Notes:
The lowercase l after 1000 and 200 in the first column of text, this might be symbol for monetary pounds? ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-21 19:43:43 Yes, not the numeral "1," but I do not know how to transcribe it, other than to leave a space between the number and the pound symbol. Also, change what may appear to be an "f" to an "s" where appropriate. This is a different style of print and cursive, not a different way of spelling words. I confirmed this with SI TC Staff on 5-19-23. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-05-22 06:47:09