Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke: Being a Supplement to Dr. Sykes's and Bishop Hoadley's Accounts; Including Certain Memoirs of Several of Dr. Clarke's Friends (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Historical Memoirs of the Life of Dr. Samuel Clarke: Being a Supplement to Dr. Sykes's and Bishop Hoadley's Accounts; Including Certain Memoirs of Several of Dr. Clarke's Friends

About the Year 16 97, while I was Chap lain to Dr. Fifaleia Moor, then Bifhop of Nor wick, I met 'at one of the Coii'ee-houfes in the market-(place of Norwiela, a young Man, to me then wholly unknown, his Name was Clarke, Pupil to that eminent and careful Tutor, Mr. Ellis, of Gorw'l and Caias College in Cambridge. L'vir. Clarke knew me Io far at the Univerfity, I being about eight Years elder than himlelf, and fo far knew the Nature andsuccefs of my Studies as to enter into a Converfation with me, about that Syfiem of Carrie/la Philofophy, his Tutor had put him to tran flate, I mean Releaall'sfpbjfickr; and to ask my Opinion about the Pitnefs of fuch a Tranfiation. I wellremember the Anfwer I made him; that Since the Youth of the Univerfity mull have, at prefent.

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