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      v ^ te practitioner . It might be invidious to say , that he was the first of the London surgeons of his day , but it is apprehended , that every person competent to form a judgment will readily admit that he had no superior . It is believed that no such person will maintain that he was inferior to any one of them , with respect to acuteness in discovering and ascertaining disease , soundness of judgment , skill in operating , the number , together

      with the rank of his patients , and , above all , with respect to the confidence with which he inspired them . He was regarded by his professional brethren with good-will and esteem and respect in a remarkable degree ; and his patients looked upon him as a friend as well as a professional adviser . It would , perhaps , be difficult to name a person whose intercourse , in the way of his profession merely , gave occasion to an equal number of private friendships .

      He was indebted for this success very little to adventitious circumstances . It was principally owing to his skill and knowledge ; it was owing likewise in a considerable degree to his general talents , to his strength of mind , and to the mildness of his manners .

      • His feelings , both selfish and social , were ardent , his imagination lively , his intellectual faculties powerful ; but the exercise of all his feelings and powers was under the complete controul of his will , so that he was able to exhibit , and he did exhibit habitually , in his countenance and deportment , an equanimity not to be disturbed by accident , and a mildness and kindness of disposition

      which conciliated people at first sight . This early prepossession in his favour was strengthened by a further acquaintance , which discovered his patient attention , his caution and prudence , his knowledge and skill , his fruitfulness in resources , his dignified self-command , and that calm and well-grounded confidence in himself , which universally excites the confidence of others . Thus the

      favourable opinion of him , which was at first a prejudice , became afterward a reasonable ground of attachment and of earnest recommendation . - He distinguished himself as a surgeon , and a teacher of Anatomy and Surgery , j > ut he Was a person who would have

      distinguished himself , whatever had been his situation and calling . His strong intellect , his self-determination , his steady adherence to his purpose , and his consummate prudence , would have ensured him success in any career of honouable jambition . —G ^ . Mag *

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      224 Obituary . —J . Mason Good , —Dr . Jones . —Dr . Evans .

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      10 , at his house in Great Coram Street , John Jones , LL . D . M . R . S . L ., author of the Greek-English Lexicon and other learned works . We shall give a memoir of this eminent scholar in our next Number .

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      —• 25 , at his house , Islington , the Rev . John Evans , LL . D ., for more than thirty-five years Minister of the morning General Baptist congregation in Worship Street , Finsbury Square . Born at Usk , in Monmouthshire , Oct . 2 , 1767 , Dr . Evans traced his descent ,

      through an almost unbroken line of Baptist ministers , from a Thomas Evans , one of the ministers ejected by the Act of Uniformity . He acquired at Bristol the elementary parts of his education , and in November , 1783 , became a student in the Bristol Baptist Academy , over which his relative Dr . C . Evans

      then presided as Theological Tutor . About this time , being convinced of the obligation of a personal profession of Christianity , he was baptized with twentyseven others by his relative Dr . C . Evans . Dr . Evans preached his first sermon before the age of seventeen , and on various occasions before he finally quitted the Academy he exercised his talents in supplying the places of several ministers in different parts of the coutitry .

      After remaining some time at the Academy , Dr . E . went to Scotland in 1787 , where he passed three winters as a student at the College at Aberdeen , then adorned by the talents of Drs . Campbell and Gerard ; a fourth winter was spent by him at the University of Edinburgh . Having attained the degree of A . M ., he returned from Scotland in June , 1791 .

      Although educated in those tenets which are designated orthodox , it would seem that his liberal and feeling heart shrank from the unamiable views of God and man which they presented . Entertaining serious doubts respecting the truth of several of the Calvinistic

      doctrines , he in 1791 accepted an invitation from the morning congregation of General Baptists , at Worship Street , in London , where , after officiating' a few months , he was chosen pastor , and or-

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      Dr . John Jones .

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      John Evans , LL . D .

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      Jan . 2 , at the house of his daughter ^ at Shipperton , after a few days' illness , John Mason Good , M . D . F . II . S . M . R . S . L . [ We shall feeh obliged to any friend for a memoir of this able and voluminous writer . ]

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      J . Mason Goon , M . 0 .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1827, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1794/page/64/