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John Brown, an eccentric philosopher. Etching by J. Kay, 1819
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John Brown, an eccentric philosopher. Etching by J. Kay, 1819
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1819 portrait of John Brown, an eccentric philosopher. Etching by J. Kay, 1819. Described in Kay's "Edinburgh Portraits" as John Brown - Devil Killer: "[David] Webster, who was a shrewd, strong-headed man, liked nothing better than to engage Brown in a discussion; and the nonsense the latter used to utter was vastly amusing. One favourite subject was the power of his Satanic Majesty. Here the Doctor was in his element. Numerous were the encounters he had had with the enemy of mankind and his emissaries; and repeatedly had he defeated them; nay, he had killed the devil and slaughtered numbers of the imps of darkness—hence his soubriquet of "The Devil-Killer.""

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