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Page 188 - s question very easily," said the bland, grave young man : " there is a new President." The tranquil assurance of this answer had an effect such as I hardly ever knew produced by the most eloquent sentences I ever heard uttered. Eliot has a deep, almost melancholy sounding voice — with a little of that character that people's voices have when there is somebody lying dead in the house, but a placid smile on his face that looks as if it might mean a deal of determination, perhaps of obstinacy. I...
Page 21 - You don't suppose that my remarks made at this table are like so many postage-stamps, do you — each to be only once uttered? If you do, you are mistaken. He must be a poor creature that does not often repeat himself. Imagine the author of the excellent piece of advice, "Know thyself," never alluding to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence!
Page 32 - What have I rescued from the shelf? A Boswell, writing out himself ! For though he changes dress and name, The man beneath is still the same, Laughing or sad, by fits and starts, One actor in a dozen parts, And whatsoe'er the mask may be, The voice assures us, This is he.
Page 40 - ... hydrostatic paradox of controversy? Don't know what that means ? — Well, I will tell you. You know, that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way, — and the fools know it.
Page 190 - Our new President, Eliot, has turned the whole University over like a flapjack. There never was such a bouleversement as that in our Medical Faculty.
Page 191 - ... mouths, putting a check on this one's capers and touching that one with the lash, — turning up everywhere, in every Faculty (I belong to three), on every public occasion at every dinner orne, and taking it all as naturally as if he had been born President.
Page 22 - Know thyself,' never alluding to that sentiment again during the course of a protracted existence! Why, the truths a man carries about with him are his tools; and do you think a carpenter is bound to use the same plane but once to smooth a knotty board with, or to hang up his hammer after it has driven its first nail? I shall never repeat a conversation, but an idea often. I shall use the same types when I like, but not commonly the same stereotypes. A thought is often original, though you have uttered...
Page 188 - School is the most flourishing department connected with the college, [sic] — how is it that we have been going on so well in the same orderly path for eighty years, and now within three or four months it is proposed to change all our modes of carrying on the school — it seems very extraordinary, and I should like to know how it happens.
Page 103 - s painting. There you are again, in plain sight as I sit, in the group where I, too, have the honor of figuring. I have been constantly reminded of you of late by the daily presence of that same lady, Mrs. M , who had a fancy for painting me, too, to which I felt bound to yield, although I have always considered my face a convenience rather than an ornament.
Page 317 - In their affections you are secure, whether you are with them here or near them in some higher life than theirs. I hope your years have not become a burden, so that you are tired of living. At our age we must live chiefly in the past. Happy is he who has a past like yours to look back upon.