Oliver Wendell Holmes : the Autocrat And His Fellow-Boarders
The book Oliver Wendell Holmes : the Autocrat And His Fellow-Boarders was written by author Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, Former Owner. Dlc Here you can read free online of Oliver Wendell Holmes : the Autocrat And His Fellow-Boarders book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Oliver Wendell Holmes : the Autocrat And His Fellow-Boarders a good or bad book?
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A thought was never allowed to go abroad unless chaperoned by an elderly and perfectly reliable Moral. When the Autocrat presented a new thought to the Breakfast-Table, '* *I don't believe one word of what you are saying,' spoke up the angular female in black bombazine." Dr. Holmes has been called provincial, j This is high praise for one who aspires to be [ 18 ] J HOLMES his own Boswell. Said Dr. Johnson, ' * He who is tired of London is tired of life." — "Why Sir, Fleet Street has a very anim...ated appear- ance, but I think the full tide of human exist- ence is at Charing Cross." An interesting personality is always inter- ested in the place where he happens to be. Dr. Holmes found his Fleet Street and Charing Cross within easy walking distance. All the specimens of human nature which he needed for his study could be found on Boston Com- mon. Boston was not so big as London, nor so old, but it was suflScient for his active mind. In that most delightful of nature books, 3lilbert White's "Natural History of Selborne," the good rector says of the range of hills that ran through the parish which was his world, ** Though I have travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year, and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it." The globe-trotter smiles superciliously when he is told that these majestic mountains rise to the height of five hundred feet.
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