A satirical work, published in 1721, speaks of the chairs which were allowed to exist as habitually filled by persons utterly incompetent; and though we cannot tell how far to believe its details, something of the kind must be supposed to have taken place in order to account for the discredit into which the Professoriate fell, and from which it can scarcely be said to have recovered.

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He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way, Hang it, Mr. Barry, you have no more manners than a barber.

In reference to his famous profile, dominated by his ski-jump nose, Mr. Hope once commented that after his birth, My mother thought the doctor had left the stork and taken the baby.