Dr. Ogle4, Dean of Winchester,[54] a man of facetious5 pleasantry, yet of real sagacity; though mingled6 with eccentricities7, perversities, and decidedly republican
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principles, became a warm admirer of the character and conversation of the Doctor; while the exemplary Mrs. Ogle and her sprightly8 daughters united to enliven his reception, in Berkeley-square, as an honoured instructor9, and a cordial friend.
But with far more political congeniality the President of the Royal Society, Sir Joseph Banks, was included in this new amical committee.
In a loose manuscript of recurrence10 to the year 1776, stand these words upon the first Dr. Warren.
“In January of this year, an acquaintance which I had already begun with that most agreeable of men, Dr. Warren, grew into intimacy11. His conversation was the most pleasant, and, nearly, the most enlightened, without pedantry12 or dogmatism, that I had ever known.”
Amongst the distinguished13 persons appertaining to this numerous list of connexions upon the opening of the St. Martin’s-street residence during the last century, one, at least, still remains14 to ornament15, both by his writings and his conversation, the present, Dr. Gillies; whose urbanity of mind and manners, joined to his literary merits, made him, at his own pleasure, one of the most estimable and honourable16 contributors to the Doctor’s social circle.

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