Title image: Terrestrial globe signed by J. It is from the habits of mental ease and vigour which this careless form of dress creates, that learned men have often become contemptible for their slovenly appearance, when they mix with the world. Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia dedicated his life to the ideals of Life and Liberty while truly embracing the Constitutional ideal of forming the Nation he loved. When he finished school there, he went to Princeton University.
He attended the school at Cecil County Maryland. When Benjamin was eight he was sent to live with his aunt and uncle in Maryland in order to receive a proper education. This remark is so obvious, and so generally known, that we find studious men are always painted in gowns, when they are seated in their libraries. Benjamin Rush was born on Januin Byberry, Philadelphia County. Loose dresses contribute to the easy and vigorous exercise of the faculties of the mind. In an essay upon the effects of public punishments upon criminals and. As he wrote just a few years after his portrait was painted: Benjamin Rush, On Punishing Murder by Death. Rush's banyan was meant to indicate his studious habits. He is writing a lecture on the cause of earthquakes, a subject that found its way into his medical lectures. Rush's books are carefully labeled volumes on medicine, chemistry, electricity, political theory, moral philosophy, psychology, and the origin of languages. Peale's portrait of Benjamin Rush characterizes him as a scholar and man of science. Helped to draft Pennsylvania Constitution and found Dickinson. is too much of a Talker to be a deep thinker." (1745-1813) Founding Father, physician and surgeon-general, opened first public health clinic. At age eight the young boy was sent to live with an aunt. When Benjamin was five his father died, leaving his mother to care for the large family. The family, which included seven children, lived on a plantation in Byberry, near Philadelphia. John Adams summed him up in 1775 as "an elegant, ingenious Body. (1745-1813) Benjamin Rush was born to John and Susanna Harvey Rush on December 24, 1745.
Rush was a practicing physician, energetic man of affairs, reformer and essayist, and professor of medicine and chemistry in Philadelphia. Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America"
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