A Brief Memoir of Dr. Elisha Bartlett: With Selections from His Writings and a Bibliography of the SameBrief memoir of Elisha Bartlett -- Hippocrates by the dying bed of Pericles : an extract from a discourse -- The head and the heart, or, The relative importance of intellectual and moral education ... a lecture -- Chronological list of the published writings of Dr. Elisha Bartlett. |
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Page 21 - ... companion in arms, is there; and near him, in his coarse mantle, and with unsandaled feet, may have stood a grandson of Aristides, still poor with the honorable poverty of his great ancestor. Conspicuous amidst this group of generals, admirals, statesmen, orators, artists, poets, and philosophers, — in rank and fortune, in social position, in reputation, in learning, culture, and refinement, their equal and associate, sits the young physician of Cos. Already had his rising fame reached Athens,...
Page 9 - for his friends to recall his ever welcome presence. On his expanded forehead no one could fail to trace the impress of a large and calm intelligence. In his beaming smile none could help feeling the warmth of a heart which was the seat of all generous and kindly affection; while his closed mouth and rigid muscle around it gave equal evidence of his firm purpose and indomitable energy of will.
Page 33 - Intellectual power is too much coveted and honored, and moral worth not enough. From this wrong appreciation, it comes, of course, that intellectual culture is much regarded, and moral culture much neglected. This is true every where, but it seems to me to be especially so here. What is the great defect in our own national character ? It seems to me, that there can be but one answer to this question. This national character is faulty, especially, in the want of high moral principle. The intellect,...
Page 17 - Everything in the spacious apartment indicates the pervading presence— not of obtrusive grandeur, or of showy and ostentatious wealth — but of stately elegance, and of high, various, many-sided luxury, culture, and refinement. Philosophy, letters, and art breathe in the quiet atmosphere of the room ; and the taste of Aspasia sheds an Asiatic grace over its furnishing and its decorations. In one corner stands a statue of Minerva, from the chisel of Phidias ; and the walls are covered with pictures,...
Page 69 - Read before the Trustees, Faculty and medical class of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, at the opening of the term of 1852
Page 69 - A brief sketch of the Life, Character and Writings of William Charles Wells, MD, FRS," delivered before the Louisville Medical Society, Dec.
Page 18 - Panaenus and Polygnotus, illustrating the legendary and historic glories of Greece. There might have been seen Theseus, bearing off from the field of victory, on the banks of the Thermodon, the masculine and magnificent queen of the Amazons — half willing, perhaps, to be the captive of such a victor ; Jason, in his good ship Argo, with his fifty selectest heroes, convoyed by the queen of love, the awful Here, and Apollo, winds his various and adventurous voyage, crowded with poetic imagery and...
Page 3 - Is is the path which led the more fortunate Jenner to that discovery which has embalmed his name in the gratitude and the love of all peoples and of all tongues. It is the path which led Newton up to the loftiest pinnacle ever reached by uninspired humanity — a pinnacle...
Page 18 - ... back the golden fleece from Colchis; — Helen, at her loom, is weaving into her ' golden web ' the story of the Trojan wars;— the chaste Penelope, by the light of her midnight lamp, undoes the delusive labors of the day;— Ulysses, returned from his long wanderings, surveys once more, with boyish pride and delight, the dear old bow, which no arm but his could bend. The central figure on that old historic canvas that I have endeavored to unroll before you, is that of the dying statesman. Raised...