Excerpt from The Beauties of Pindar: Being Selections From the Various Works of That Eccentric Author, With a Biographical Memoir of His Life and Writings The uncle of our bard living at Fow ey, in Corn. Wall, as surgeon and apothecary, trained up his nephew to succeed him in business. His medical knowledge of course was at this time acquired. He conducted himself in a manner which did him crea dit, and cultivated a propensity for drawing, to which he had been addicted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.