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by: William Lawrence Schroeder
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 809
EAN: 9780548590997
ISBN: 0548590990
Label: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 124
Publication Date: October 02, 2007
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Studio: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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CONTENTS CHRONOLOGICTAALB LE . . . . . . . . PA X G E I I INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . I 3 I1 PERSONALITY . . . . . . . . . 2 1 111 ARTISTRY . . . . . . . . . . 4 0 IV REFORM . . . . . . . . . . 6 0 V RELIGION . . . . . . . . . 78 V1 CONCLUSION . . . . . . . . . I1 4 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Abiel Ho2mesS born. Dec. 30. Sarah Wendell bonz. Abiel Holmes married Mary, daughter of President Ezra Stiles. Death of Mary Holmes. A biel Holmes married Sarah Wendell. August 29. Birth of Oliver Wendell Holmes, fourth child of Abiel and Sarah Holmes. 0. W. Holmes at the Cambridgefiort School. Elztersd Andover Phillifis Academy. Entered Harvard College. Graduation, followed by one years law course. Study of Medicine in Boston. Medical study in Paris. April. Retztrn from Europe. First collection of Holmess Poems published. Received M. D. degree from Hayvard. Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Resig ationo f his Professorship, and marriage on J l t e 16 with Miss Amelia Lee Jackson. Contagiozlsness of uerpeval Fever. Professor of Anatomy and P zysiology in the Harvard Medical School. 12 Chronological Table Gave 219 general medical practice. Began his career as a public Zecturer which lasted until c. 1858. Mechanism of Vital Actions. Nov. Beginnigtg of Autocrat Pafiers in the Atlantic Mof thly. Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Professor at the Breakfast Table. Currents and Counter-currents ifi Medical Science. Elsie Venne. Songs in Many Keys. Border Lines of Knowledge in Medical Science. Soundings from the Atlantic. The Guardian Angel. Mechanism in Thoqht and Morals. Poet at the Breakfast Table. Songs of Many Seasons. Cylime and Automatism. Memoir of Motley. Essay on Jonathan Edwards. Memoir of Emerson. A Mortal Antipathy. April. European trip. Litt. D., Cambridge. LL. D., Edinburgh. D. C. L ., Oxford. Death of Mrs. 0. W. Holmes. Over the Teacufis. October 7. Death of Oliver Wendell Holmes INTRODUCTION LAUGHTER k ind genial and melodious is an ebullition of divine grace. For the men who out of their wealth of loving nature enlighten our gloom by life-giving rays of happy humour and tender fun, we are profoundly grateful, in that they help us to know ourselves as privileged souls distinguished from the rest of Gods creation by our capacity for mirth and joyousness. Smiles are a sign of our close relationship with God for the brutes are incapable of expressing the finer emotions of spiritual appreciation, and the devils, we are told, but grin and tremble. If for nothing else, Oliver Wendell Holmes commands our gratitude for the mirth-provoking wit and humour which irradiates our being and warms us into a sense of high comradeship with worthy thought for although here and there he indulges in fun simply for funs sake, he is not a mere literary mountebank, but a man of serious purpose and lofty ideals who has the courage of an optimistic humour and is out of patience Oliver Wendell Holmes with those who attempt to stir the infinite abysses with a toothpick...
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