This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...and anecdotes, but nobody could be more refined when he chose. He was witty. He woke early and read from six until ten. He did not in general drink much." Listen to Thackeray's words about the same man, written thirty years after the king's death. "To make a portrait of him at first seemed a matter of small ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...and anecdotes, but nobody could be more refined when he chose. He was witty. He woke early and read from six until ten. He did not in general drink much." Listen to Thackeray's words about the same man, written thirty years after the king's death. "To make a portrait of him at first seemed a matter of small difficulty. There is his coat, his star, his wig, his countenance simpering under it... and yet after reading of him in scores of volumes, hunting him through old magazines and newspapers, having him here at a ball and there at a dinner, you find you have nothing--nothing but a great simulacrum." So William Thackeray; and so Sir Astley Cooper. We admit that at such work the pen is mightier than the scalpel. But in spite of all this we must not think of Sir Astley Cooper as a courtier. In his age he grew to have a great respect for the constituted authorities. To him a king was a king; and a lord was a lord indeed. England was the most beautiful and pleasant country under the heavens; and there were to be found the bravest and wisest men, the most lovely and virtuous women. He says so a dozen times, and we think none the less of him. The democracy of his ardent youth fell from him, as it has done from so many others; but his great work in life went on. Always the honor and prosperity of his profession were most dear to him. Whenever he heard of a fine professional action he gloried in it, and he labored through life to elevate his calling in the eyes of men. His fellows recognized this in him, and this was the great reason for his constantly increasing popularity. To conquer shams, to foster science, to expose cant, to teach the truth, to seize the happy moment, to know real worth, to labor always for progress, --these were the grea...
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