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Article CHARACTER OF SIR WILLIAM JONES. ← Page 3 of 3 Article THE LIFE OF DON BALTHASAR OROBIO, Page 1 of 2 →
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Character Of Sir William Jones.
find dissipation . The poor felt the beneficial effects of this great change in their superiors ; and the suffering Hindoos found protectors instead of oppressors . It was not , however , only in his public character , that Sir William was thus eminentty distinguished ; in private life he abundantly possessed all those qualities which adorn the man , and render the possessor respected and amiable in society . The ardour of his friendshi
p was only to be equalled by its sincerity , and his liberal heart glowed with universal benevolence . As a married man , and as the head of a family , his affection , his fidelity , temperance , and regularity , rendered him a striking model of domestic virtue . He possessed , at all times , a noble independence of spirit ; to maintain which , he left the Museswho had been the deliht of his earllifefor a
profes-, g y , sion , to the severe duties of which he finally fell a victim in his fortyseventh year . When infidelity examines the modern names which belong to the list of her adherents , she will be puzzled to find one among them of sufficient weight to move the scale in counterpoise to that of JONES .
The Life Of Don Balthasar Orobio,
THE LIFE OF DON BALTHASAR OROBIO ,
A CELEBRATED SPANISH JEW .
"PftoN BALTHAZAR OROBIO was born at Seville , about the beginning ¦ ° ~* ofthe seventeenth century . He was carefully educated in Judaism by his parents , who were of that reli gion , though they outwardly professed themselves Roman Catholics ; abstaining from the practice , of the Jewish ceremonies in every thing except the observation of the fast of Expiation in the month Tisri , or September . Orobio studied the scholastic philosophy usual in Spainand became so skilled
, in it that he was made professor of metaphysics iu the university of Salamanca . But afterwards applying himself to the study of physic , he practised that art with such success , that his brethren , through envy , accused him of Judaism , and he was thrown into the Inquisition , where he suffered the most dreadful cruelties , to induce him to confess . He informs us himselfthat he was put into a dark dungeon
, , so strait that he could scarce turn himself in ^ it , and suffered so many hardships that his brain began to , be disturbed . He oiten talked to himself in . this way : 'Am I indeed that Balthasar Orobio who walked freely about in Seville , who was entirely at ease , and had the blessings of a wife and children ? ' Sometimes supposing that his past life was but a dream , and that the dungeon where he then lay was his
true birth-place , and which to all appearance would also prove the place of his death : at other times , as' he had a very metaphysical brain , he firstformed arguments of that kind , and then resolved them ; performing thus the three different parts of opponent , respondent , and moderator , at the same time . In this whimsical way he amused himself , and constantly denied that he was a Jew . After bavin- ap-
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Character Of Sir William Jones.
find dissipation . The poor felt the beneficial effects of this great change in their superiors ; and the suffering Hindoos found protectors instead of oppressors . It was not , however , only in his public character , that Sir William was thus eminentty distinguished ; in private life he abundantly possessed all those qualities which adorn the man , and render the possessor respected and amiable in society . The ardour of his friendshi
p was only to be equalled by its sincerity , and his liberal heart glowed with universal benevolence . As a married man , and as the head of a family , his affection , his fidelity , temperance , and regularity , rendered him a striking model of domestic virtue . He possessed , at all times , a noble independence of spirit ; to maintain which , he left the Museswho had been the deliht of his earllifefor a
profes-, g y , sion , to the severe duties of which he finally fell a victim in his fortyseventh year . When infidelity examines the modern names which belong to the list of her adherents , she will be puzzled to find one among them of sufficient weight to move the scale in counterpoise to that of JONES .
The Life Of Don Balthasar Orobio,
THE LIFE OF DON BALTHASAR OROBIO ,
A CELEBRATED SPANISH JEW .
"PftoN BALTHAZAR OROBIO was born at Seville , about the beginning ¦ ° ~* ofthe seventeenth century . He was carefully educated in Judaism by his parents , who were of that reli gion , though they outwardly professed themselves Roman Catholics ; abstaining from the practice , of the Jewish ceremonies in every thing except the observation of the fast of Expiation in the month Tisri , or September . Orobio studied the scholastic philosophy usual in Spainand became so skilled
, in it that he was made professor of metaphysics iu the university of Salamanca . But afterwards applying himself to the study of physic , he practised that art with such success , that his brethren , through envy , accused him of Judaism , and he was thrown into the Inquisition , where he suffered the most dreadful cruelties , to induce him to confess . He informs us himselfthat he was put into a dark dungeon
, , so strait that he could scarce turn himself in ^ it , and suffered so many hardships that his brain began to , be disturbed . He oiten talked to himself in . this way : 'Am I indeed that Balthasar Orobio who walked freely about in Seville , who was entirely at ease , and had the blessings of a wife and children ? ' Sometimes supposing that his past life was but a dream , and that the dungeon where he then lay was his
true birth-place , and which to all appearance would also prove the place of his death : at other times , as' he had a very metaphysical brain , he firstformed arguments of that kind , and then resolved them ; performing thus the three different parts of opponent , respondent , and moderator , at the same time . In this whimsical way he amused himself , and constantly denied that he was a Jew . After bavin- ap-