, as I learned from the Scottish transactions at
Perth), but because it is _the least defining_, and
consequently _the most comprehensive and fitting to be
national_."

[267] He died at Bath in 1676, where he had gone in attendance upon
several of his patients from the neighbourhood of Warwick,
where he for a long time practised as a physician. His old
antagonist Glanvill was at that time rector of the Abbey
Church in which he was buried, and so became the preacher of
his funeral sermon. Wood says he "said no great matter of
him."--ED.

[268] Pope said to Spence, "It was Dryden who made Will's coffee-house
the great resort for the wits of his time. After his death
Addison transferred it to Button's, who had been a servant of
his." Will's coffee-house was at the corner of Bow-street,
Covent-garden, and Button's close by in Russell-street.--ED.

[269] "Some years after the king's restoration he took pet against the
Royal Society, (for which before he had a great veneration,)
and being encouraged by Dr. Jo. Fell, no admirer of that
society, became in his writings an inveterate enemy against it
for several pretended reasons: among which were, first, that
the members thereof intended to bring a contempt upon ancient
and solid learning, upon Aristotle, to undermine the
universities, and reduce them to nothing, or at least to be
very inconsiderable. Secondly, that at long running to destroy
the established religion, and involve the nation in popery,
and I know not what, &c. So dexterous was his pen, whether
_pro_ or _con_, that few or none could equal, answer, or come
near him. He was a person of most admirable parts, had a most
prodigious memory, though his enemies would not acknowledge
it, but said he read indexes; was the most noted Latinist and
Grecian of his age; and after he had been put upon it, was so
great an enemy to the _virtuosi_ of his time, I mean those of
the Royal Society, that, as he saith, they alarmed him with
dangers and troubles even to the hazard of his life and
fortunes."--_Wood._

[270] The aspersed passage in Glanvill is this: "The philosophers of
elder times, though their wits were excellent, yet the way
they took was not