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To the memory of Thomas Linacre, an eminent physician, John Caius placed this monument. On the lower part of it is this inscription in gold letters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many from a state of languishment and despair to life.
George was already quieter than he had been all day; so that Mildred felt the less scruple about going out to amuse herself, or rather, to watch her brother; for she hardly dared to take any pleasure in the raft, after what Ailwin had said; though she kept repeating to herself that it was all nonsense, such as Ailwin often talked; such as Mrs Linacre said her children must neither believe nor laugh at.
When I listen to Colet, it seems to me like listening to Plato himself"; and he praises the judgment and learning of those Englishmen, Grocyn and Linacre, who had been taught in Italy. In spite of all this promise, the Renaissance in England was rotten at the root. Theology killed it, or, at the least, breathed on it a deadly blight.
It was in Henry's reign that the study of Greek, and with it the new criticism, began to establish itself. Grocyn and Linacre led the way.
His cure of Archbishop Hamilton's asthma, over which Cassanate and the other doctors had failed, was due to a more careful diagnosis and a more judicious application of existing rules, rather than to the working of any new discoveries of his own. Viewed as a soldier in the service of Hygeia, how transient and slender is the fame of Cardan compared with that of Linacre, Vesalius, or Harvey!
"And what do you think, my dears, of the life our Protestant brethren are leading now, in some parts of the world?" "Father came away from France because he was ill-used for being a Protestant," said Oliver. "The pastor knows all about that, my boy," observed Mr Linacre. "Yes, I do," said the pastor.
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