Excerpt: ...languages, sufficed to prove that it was capable of being largely exercised. He could remember anything, as a friend observed to the Editor, that was associated with an idea. But he seemed, at least after he reached manhood, to want almost wholly the power, so common with inferior understandings, of retaining with regularity and exactness, a number of unimportant uninteresting particulars. It would have been nearly impossible to make him recollect for three days the date of the battle of Marathon, or the names ...
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Excerpt: ...languages, sufficed to prove that it was capable of being largely exercised. He could remember anything, as a friend observed to the Editor, that was associated with an idea. But he seemed, at least after he reached manhood, to want almost wholly the power, so common with inferior understandings, of retaining with regularity and exactness, a number of unimportant uninteresting particulars. It would have been nearly impossible to make him recollect for three days the date of the battle of Marathon, or the names in order of the Athenian months. Nor could he repeat poetry, much as he loved it, with the correctness often found in young men. It is not improbable, that a more steady discipline in early life would have strengthened this faculty, or that he might have supplied its deficiency by some technical devices; but where the higher powers of intellect were so extraordinarily manifested, it would have been preposterous to complain of what may perhaps have been a necessary consequence of their amplitude, or at least a natural result of their exercise. "But another reason may be given for his deficiency in those unremitting labors which the course of academical education, in the present times, is supposed to exact from those who aspire to its distinctions. In the first year of his residence at Cambridge, symptoms of disordered health, especially in the circulatory system, began to show themselves; and it is by no means improbable, that these were indications of a tendency to derangement of the vital functions, which become ultimately fatal. A too rapid determination of blood towards the brain, with its concomitant uneasy sensations, rendered him frequently incapable of mental fatigue. He had indeed once before, at Florence, been affected by symptoms not unlike these. His intensity of reflection and feeling also brought on occasionally a considerable depression of spirits, which had been painfully observed at times by those who watched him most, from...
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Add this copy of Spare Hours to cart. $7.79, good condition, Sold by UHR Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hollis Center, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1863 by Ticknor and Fields.
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Fair. No Jacket. Book Moderate edge wear including splitting along the spine edges. The Second Series of Spare Hours, this one being writings on John Leech, Marjorie Fleming, Jeems the Door-Keeper, Minchmoor, The Enterkin, Health, The Duke of Athole, Struan, Thackeray's Death and Literary Career, Dogs, Dog Home, Bibliomania, Dreams and Visions, and a Jacobite Family.
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Near Fine in N/A jacket. Book. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Author's edition. Brown pebbled cloth, bevelled edges, decorated in blind, spine panel lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt. Minor shelf wear, text block edges and interior a bit toned but otherwise nicely intact. 426 pp., frontis. portrait of author. Essays on John Leech, Marjorie Fleming, Minchmoor, the Duke of Athole, Struan, Thackeray, dogs, bibliomania, Jacobites. Notably well preserved copy.
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1862 printing. Includes 16 pp. of ads. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Cover noticeably scuffed and stained with age, title on spine beginning to fade. Generally shelfworn. Spine cracked, but all pages intact. Gift inscription on blank inside page. Yellowing to page edges. Text clean and unmarked. Good reading copy.
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458pp. Small 8vo. Original blind stamped cloth, t.e.g. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. First American Edition. A collection of the non-professional essays, including the famous "Rab and his Friends". "My interest in Lock & Sydenham dates from the reading of (this) essay."-Osler.
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Very Good. Very good Cracked hinge. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
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Boston 1890 6th edition. Essays on Locke, Sydenham, Andre Combe, Military Hygiene, Edward Forbes, etc. Hardcover. 12mo., 373pp., cloth. VG. bit of residue from price tag on front end paper.
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Boston 1883 Houghton. Fiction by Edinburgh physician in which dogs play central role. Sm.8vo., 458pp., hardcover. Good, light wear on cover, front hinge tender.
