Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
Excerpt: ...book-learning, experimental research at home, and indefatigable observation in the open air, he prosecutes the ordinary duties of a physician; contrasting himself indeed with other students, whose quiet and unmolested doors afford no such distractions. To most persons of mind sensitive as his, his chosen studies would have seemed full of melancholy, turning always, as they did, upon death and decay. It is well, perhaps, that life should be something of a meditation upon death: but to many, certainly, Browne's would have seemed too like a lifelong following of one's own funeral. A museum is seldom a cheerful place-oftenest induces…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-58734-1
- EAN: 9781153587341
- Produktnummer: 14787785
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.3 cm 145 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 145
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