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the pain ceased in a few minutes after our entrance.
before we left him it had begun to make it's appearance
in his Legs: All this he endured with a fortitude that
shewed his philosophy was not confined to speculation.
We quitted him with some degree of reluctance on all sides
upon the approach of dinner-time after a stay of 2 or 3
Hours: it was settled that Sam should go to him either at
his house at the Warren or that on the Hill as it might
happen 3 times a week; beginning with today: and I left
the entrance-money at my departure.
I had told you before that Sam's engaging in this course
of Study would be not more the result of my persuasion
than of his own wishes - he enters into it with a zeal
proportionate to it's relation to that business which he loves
as a source of present amusement, and esteems as a foundation
of future fortune. I endeavoured to point out that
relation in the course of our morning's walk; and to give
him such a prospect of the introductory parts of the Mathematical
Sciences as heI was capable of giving, and he of
receiving: he listened with an attention, which if I might
believe him instigated a Tooth-ach which he had upon him
at setting out, and dispelled entirely a weariness of which
he complained soon-after.
The day before some parts of experimental philosophy.
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