 | 1827 - 640 sider
...of my nearest connexions, that were I precluded from future practice, I should be enabled to obtain all I want. And as for fame, what is it? A gilded butt, for ever pierced with the arrows of malignancy. The name of John Hunter stamps this observation with... | |
 | 1833 - 600 sider
...so limited is my amhition, that were I precluded from future practice, I should be enabled to obtain all I want. And as for fame, what is it? A gilded butt, for ever pierced with the arrows of malignancy." Shortly afterwards, however, from what had taken place... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 546 sider
...want. And as for fame, what is it ? A gilded butt, for ever pierced by the arroiva of mcilignancy. The name of John Hunter stamps this observation with the signature of truth. " The letter goes on to say, that although himself indifferent to the allurements of wealth and fame,... | |
 | John Rutherfurd Russell - 1861 - 646 sider
...of my nearest connections, that were I precluded from future practice, I should be enabled to obtain all I want. And as for fame, what is it ? A gilded butt, for ever pierced by the arrows of malignancy. The name of John Hunter stamps this observation with... | |
 | 1876 - 662 sider
...Admitting it as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness? And as for fame, what is it? — a gilded butt, forever pierced with the arrows of malignancy." HUNTER. — John Hunter was a remarkable instance of natural genius... | |
 | 1876 - 1000 sider
...Admitting It as a certainty that I obtain both, what stock should I add to my little fund of happiness ? And as for fame, what is it? A gilded butt, forever pierced with the arrows of malignancy." THE soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through... | |
 | sir James Paget (1st bart.) - 1877 - 112 sider
...which he sometimes assumed, says :3 ' And as for fame, what is it ? a gilded butt for ever pierced with the arrows of malignancy. The name of John Hunter...stamps this observation with the signature of truth.' But others tell that, at least in the later years of his life, he was accounted the first among anatomists... | |
 | Sir James Paget - 1877 - 112 sider
...he sometimes assumed, says : 3 ' And as for fame, what is it ? a gilded butt for ever pierced with the arrows of malignancy. The name of John Hunter...stamps this observation with the signature of truth.' But others tell that, at least in the later years of his life, he was accounted the first among anatomists... | |
 | Newport Natural History Society - 1883 - 576 sider
...fame? My fortune, with what flows in from my profession, is amply sufficient to gratify my wishes. And as for fame, what is it ? A gilded butt, forever pierced with the arrows of malignancy. The name of John Hunter stamps this observation with the signature of... | |
 | 1896 - 590 sider
...of my nearest connections, that were I precluded from future practice I should be enabled to obtain all I want. And as for fame, what is it? A gilded butt, forever pierced with the arrows of malignancy." Did the combined temptations of offered wealth and fame ever receive... | |
| |
I add to my little fund of happiness ? My fortune, with what flows in from my profession, is sufficient to gratify my wishes ; indeed, so limited is my ambition, and that of my nearest connections, that were I precluded from future practice, I should... 
