general, by no means fuch proficients in claffical acquirements, as to speak Latin with tolerable fluency. Hence, before the examinations for a doctor's degree, which are carried on in Latin, it is common to have recourse to a private inftructor, who converfes with the candidates in that language. This preparation is familiarly called grinding, as a fimilar procels at Cambridge is called cramming. The tranflation of inaugural differtations into Latin, which the ftudents, in moft inftances, compofe for themfelves in English, is another occupation from which a good fcholar may derive emolument at Edinburgh; the ordinary gratuity for a tranflation being five, and for an original compofition, ten guineas. Of his qualifications for these employments, accident, fhortly after his unfaccelsful competition for a vacancy in the high fchool, furnished him with an agreeable proof. Application being made to one of his friends to recommend a person to turn a thefis into Latin,, Mr. BROWN was mentioned. He performed the talk in a manner that exceeded the expectations both of the friend and the candidate. When it was obferved how much he had excelled the ordinary style of fuch compofitions, he faid, he had now difcovered his ftrength, and was ambitious of riding in his own carriage as a phyfician.' Towards the clofe of 1759, therefore, he fettled at Edin. burgh in the double capacity of teacher and fludent. "In certain univerfities, deftitute of foundations or yearly ftipends for scholars, the students live difperfed in ordinary dwelling-houfes; and this difperfion is not lefs favourable to dili. gence and regularity than a refidence in colleges. In mixed companies, the vicious propensities peculiar to any clafs of individuals will never be Countenanced; or, in the language of Dr. Adam Smith, a whole company can never fympathize in thofe unbecoming practices, to which a few only feel themselves inclined. "BROWN, who now feems to have fupported himself in affluence as a fingle man, perceived, in the establishment of a boarding-houfe for ftudents, a refource which would enable him to maintain a family. His reputation for various attainments was, he thought, likely to draw round him a number fufficient to fill a large houfe. With " -Satis inter vilia fortis. 'He feemed to be happy in his family, and, as far as I could ever obferve, acquitted himself affectionately as a husband and a parent. He still frequented the medical claffes, and I heard him fay, he had now attended 'them ten or eleven years.' "We have feen how liberally BROWN was treated on his entrance upon the ftudy of medicine. 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