Dunning_. Campbell's
_Chancellors_, ed. 1846, v. 517. Horace Walpole says that 'Lord
Mansfield was afraid, and would not venture the pillory.' _Journal of
the Reign of George III_, ii. 167.
[1054] '_Bulse_, a certain quantity of diamonds' (India). Webster's
_Dictionary_.
[1055] 'He raised,' says Hawkins (_Life_, p. 236), 'the medical
character to such a height of dignity as was never seen in this or any
other country. I have heard it said that when he began to practise, he
was a frequenter of the meeting at Stepney where his father preached;
and that when he was sent for out of the assembly, his father would in
his prayer insert a petition in behalf of the sick person. I once
mentioned this to Johnson, who said it was too gross for belief; but it
was not so at Batson's [a coffee-house frequented by physicians]; it
passed there as a current belief.' See _ante_, i. 159. Young has
introduced him in the second of his _Night Thoughts_--
'That time is mine, O Mead, to thee I owe;
Fain would I pay thee with eternity.'
Horace Walpole (_Letters_, viii. 260) says 'that he had nothing but
pretensions.'
[1056] On Oct. 17, 1777, Burgoyne's army surrendered to the Americans
at Saratoga.
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