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It is difficult to conceive of a greater tribute to a public advocate than that paid to Wendell Phillips by George William Curtis: "The divine energy of his conviction utterly possest him, and his 'Pure and eloquent blood Spoke in his cheek, and so distinctly wrought, That one might almost say his body thought."
"You know how long we've been hoping something could be done for David, and how you've all insisted that when Doctor Wendell should decide he was strong enough for the operation on the hip-joint we must have it. Well, he says a great English surgeon, Sir Edmund Barrister, will be here for just two days. He comes to see the little Woodbridge girl, and to operate on her if he thinks it best.
Stages in very bad order roads excellent for wheels to Peekskill, and thence very good sleighing to this city. The night was uncomfortable; the curtains torn and flying all about, so that we had plenty of fresh air. The term was closed this day. Nelson will hold the Special Court to-morrow morning have seen both Wendell and O'Connor this evening all ready came neither fatigued nor sleepy.
It appeared, with him, to be proof of the inferiority of Boston that if you passed down Washington Street, half a dozen men in the crowd would know you were Holmes, or Lowell, or Longfellow, or Wendell Phillips; but in Broadway no one would know who you were, or care to the measure of his smallest blasphemy.
A MEMOIR, Complete By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The Memoir here given to the public is based on a biographical sketch prepared by the writer at the request of the Massachusetts Historical Society for its Proceedings. The questions involving controversies into which the Society could not feel called to enter are treated at considerable length in the following pages.
You are invited, then, to maintain purity under the law of liberty, and to adopt this thought as a permanent law: MY PERSONAL DIGNITY STOOPS NOT TO PHYSICAL DEGRADATION. Oliver Wendell Holmes: "What is the honest truth about the medical art? That by far the largest number of diseases which physicians are called upon to treat will get well at any rate, even in spite of reasonably bad treatment.
Oliver Wendell Holmes tells us that in religion certain words and ideas become "polarised," that is to say, charged with forces of powerful suggestion, and must be "depolarised." "I don't know what you mean by 'depolarising' an idea, said the divinity-student. "I will tell you, I said.
The following morning he spent with Wendell Phillips, who presented him with letters from William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, and other famous persons; and then, writing a letter of introduction to Charles Francis Adams, whom he enjoined to give the boy autograph letters from his two presidential forbears, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, sent Edward on his way rejoicing. Mr.
"Troubled Waters: A Problem of To-Day." By Beverley Ellison Warner. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. "A Marsh Island," By Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. "The Duchess Emilia." By Barrett Wendell. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co. "Across the Chasm." "Within the Capes." New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. "One of the Duanes." By Alice King Hamilton.
Smoothness is one of his best qualities. Out of a number of part songs for men, one should mark a vigorous "Fisher's Song," a "May Song," which has an effective "barber's chord," and "The Katydid," a witty realization of Oliver Wendell Holmes' captivating poem. His "Sensible Serenade" has also an excellent flow of wit. Both these songs should please glee clubs and their audiences.
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