They Rejoice In The Memories
Of "Wallace And Bruce And A' The Lave," Who Are Still Much Revered
As The Former Champions Of Freedom.
And while foreigners imagine
that we want the spirit only to overturn capitalists and aristocracy,
we are content to respect our laws till we can change them,
and hate those stupid revolutions which might sweep away
time-honored institutions, dear alike to rich and poor.
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* The reader will pardon my mentioning the names of two of these
most worthy men - David Hogg, who addressed me on his death-bed
with the words, "Now, lad, make religion the every-day business
of your life, and not a thing of fits and starts; for if you do not,
temptation and other things will get the better of you;"
and Thomas Burke, an old Forty-second Peninsula soldier,
who has been incessant and never weary in good works for about forty years.
I was delighted to find him still alive; men like these
are an honor to their country and profession.
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Having finished the medical curriculum and presented a thesis on a subject
which required the use of the stethoscope for its diagnosis, I unwittingly
procured for myself an examination rather more severe and prolonged than usual
among examining bodies. The reason was, that between me and the examiners
a slight difference of opinion existed as to whether this instrument
could do what was asserted. The wiser plan would have been
to have had no opinion of my own.
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