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Updated: May 10, 2025
Not long ago we were domesticated with a venerable rustic, strong-headed, but incurably obstinate in his prejudices, who treated the whole body of medical men as ignorant pretenders, knowing absolutely nothing of the system which they professed to superintend. This, you will remark, is no very singular case. No; nor, as we believe, is the antagonist case of ascribing to such men magical powers.
An illustrious and venerable little city the metropolis of a vast extent of uninhabited country garrisoned by a doughty host of orators, chairmen, committee-men, burgomasters, schepens, and old women governed by a determined and strong-headed warrior, and fortified by mud batteries, palisadoes, and resolutions blockaded by sea, beleaguered by land, and threatened with direful desolation from without; while its very vitals are torn with internal faction and commotion!
He's been all around, even over on Long Island. He goes to church up at Amherst now, I believe." "What seems to be the trouble?" "Oh, he's just strong-headed, I guess." He paused, and ideas lagged until finally I observed: "It's a very interesting store he keeps."
Dear, sensible, odd, saintly, emotional, strong-headed, soft-hearted little doctor. He is unique." They talked on for some time, arriving at no conclusion, until it seemed they had talked the whole matter thoroughly out. Yet Valentine, who was curiously instinctive, had, all the time, a secret knowledge that Julian was keeping something from him, was not being perfectly frank.
Perhaps the most remarkable characteristics of this man, opinionated and strong-headed as he undoubtedly is, are to be found in the receptive quality of his mind, by which he is open to new ideas, and in the steady courage with which he affirms and stands by his convictions when once he has by reasoning arrived at them.
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