An Harveian oration and other remains of John Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, John, 1768-1836.
Date:
1837
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An Harveian oration and other remains of John Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    In private society he was lively and agree- able, instructing it by his talents, animating it by his cheerfulness, and refining it by his taste. To mention his abhorrence of falsehood, dissimulation, and meanness would be almost an insult to the character of a man whose feelings and actions were governed by the strictest rules of honour and integrity. If his ardent temperament and keenness of perception led him sometimes into expres- sions of excitement, the purity and rectitude of his own mind must be taken into account, and indulgence given to those human infir- mities of which the very “ frailties lean to virtue’s side.” In his religious principles he was tolerant and liberal, but was himself a member of the Church of England, and in his last hours frequently repeated his strong trust in the merits of his Redeemer. The loss of such a man will be long and deeply felt by his family and surviving