"In Memoriam": [Edmund Alexander Parkes]; an Address on Opening the Thirty-sixth Session of the Army Medical School, at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, April 3, 1876Bell & Bain, 1876 - 16 pages |
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Page 13 - ... dread disease, in which the struggle between soul and body is so gradual, quiet, and solemn, and the result so sure, that day by day, and grain by grain, the mortal part wastes and withers away, so that the spirit grows light and sanguine with its lightening load, and feeling immortality at hand, deems it but a new term of mortal life — a disease in which death and life are so strangely blended, that death takes the glow and hue of life, and life the gaunt and grisly form of death...
Page 12 - ... there is a presumption, amounting almost to certainty, that if any one of you will determine to be eminent in whatever profession you may choose, and will act with unvarying steadiness in pursuance of that determination, you will, if health and strength be given to you, infallibly succeed.
Page 12 - I repeat, with the earnestness of the deepest conviction, that there is a presumption amounting almost to certainty, that if any one of you will determine to be eminent, in whatever profession you may choose, and will act with unvarying steadiness in pursuit of that determination, you will, if health and strength be given to you, infallibly succeed.
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Page 12 - ... it is in man and not in his circumstances that the secret of his destiny resides. For most of you that destiny will take its final bent towards evil or towards good, not from the information you imbibe, but from the habits of mind, thought, and life that you shall acquire, during your academical career. Could you with the bodily eye...
Page 9 - ... that amidst all the kinds of exertion incident to our human state, there is none more arduous, none more exhausting, than the work of teaching when worthily performed. Some men, indeed, possess in this department a princely gift, which operates like a charm upon the young; and they follow such an one, as soldiers follow their leader when he waves the banner of their native land before their eyes. But such men are rare; they are not less rare than are great men in any other walk of life. Speaking...
Page 9 - And when he dies he leaves a lofty name, A light, a landmark, on the cliffs of fame.