The Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B: With an Account of His Life and Writings (Classic Reprint)

Arts till two years after the regular time, (viz. Feb. 97, 1749, O. S.) Relinquishing now his (or rather his fa ther's) intentions respecting the church, he turned his thoughts to the profession of physio, and, after attend ing some courses of anatomy in Dublin, he went to Edinburgh in 1751, and studied the several branches of medicine under the different professors in that uni versity. During his continuance at the Scotch metro polis, he soon became conspicuous by his want of eco homy. He engaged to pay a sum for a fellow-student, when, probably, he could not pay his own debts; and was, in consequence of such rash promise, obliged to leave Scotland with precipitation. Thus terminated his studies with respect to the medical profession.

Notwithstanding his hasty flight, he did not escape the vigilance of his pursuers at Sunderland, near Newcastle, he was arrested about the beginning of 1754, at the suit of one Barclay, a taylor in Edinburgh, to whom he had incautiously given security for his friend. At length, by the favour of Laughlin Mac lane, Esq. And Dr. Sleigh, then his fellow-students at college, he was soon released from the clutches of the bailiff. Hereupon he took his passage on board a. Dutizh ship, to Rotterdam.

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