Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk, afternoons at L*********.

  • Hussey E. L. (Edward Law), 1816-1899.
Date:
1891
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Credit: Extracts from various authors, and fragments of table-talk, afternoons at L*********. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    resources of the medical art.— Sir H. Halford, Lssays, i. Age has its privileges and its honors. It claims exemption from the more arduous offices of society, to which its strength is no longer equal : and immunity from some at least of the exer- tions, the fruit of which it can not enjoy. Deprived of many active pleasures, it claims an equivalent of ease and repose.— GISBORNE, Duties of Female Sex, Ch. 16. At nearly four-score, and with health failing, a friend whom I had not seen for many years, writes to me; — The end of life does not seem painful,— save from the sense that it might have been better employed. — 1884. The storms of life are over; and trials and losses now belong to the past: they have indeed left their mark ; the power of enjoying outward things is not what it once was, the animal spirits are at a lower pitch, not much of brilliancy re- mains ; but a calm and thoughtful contentedness is left, a cheerful trust, an unselfish pleasure in the happiness of others, and much power withal of making them happier. The evening of life may be grey-toned; but it need not be dull. It may have a sober brightness of its own ; and, above all, it may be brightened more and more with the light that shines from above and beyond, — the true ‘ light of life.’ — Rev. F.. BOURDILLON, Lesser Lights, Naomi.