 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 sider
...contemporaries had charged him with being ignorant of the dead languages, he said, "I would undertake to teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." It is not how much a man may know, that is of so much importance, as the end and purpose for which... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 448 sider
...contemporaries had charged him with being ignorant of the dead languages, he said, " I would undertake to teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." It is not then how much a man may know, that is of importance, but the end and purpose for which he... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1878 - 604 sider
...charged him with being ignorant, of the dead languages, to which he answered : " I would undertake to teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." THE "Chemical News " says : Amber is found in Bonmania. It differs in color from that obtained on the... | |
 | 1878 - 528 sider
...charged him with being ignorant of the dead languages, to which he answered: "I would undertake to teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." — The Amer. Med. Bi- Weekly. Hygrometric Handkerchief. — In France, handkerchiefs printed with... | |
 | 1899 - 530 sider
...contemporaries had charged him with being ignorant of the dead languages, he said: "I would undertake to teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." His remarks may have referred more particularly to anatomy, but they are equally applicable to pathology.... | |
 | 1890 - 486 sider
...Radcliffe found Mead, reading Hippocrates in the Greek early in the morning. The great John Hunter wrote: "Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead languages, but I could teach him that on the living body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." A man may never have known the year... | |
 | Stephen Paget - 1897 - 308 sider
...Hunter taught the science of it. 1 I " Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead languages j but I could teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." IX AFTER HUNTER r I ^HE body of John Hunter was taken in a sedanJ. chair from the hospital to Leicester... | |
 | 1912 - 922 sider
...returned to his beloved dissecting-room, and here he learnt enough to be able to say of a rival surgeon, 'Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead languages; but I could teach him on the dead body what he never knew in any language living or dead.' About this time the mode of the... | |
 | Sir William Mac Cormac - 1899 - 72 sider
...everything Hunter said or did with acrid personal invective : " Jess6 Foot accuses me of not knowing the dead languages, but I could teach him that on...which he never knew in any language, dead or living." ; successful teacher of it, but he always remained a learner in that great book of nature which was... | |
 | Roswell Park - 1902 - 32 sider
...disparaging remarks of an opponent: "He accuses me of not understanding the dead languages, but I could tell him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language living or dead." It was in this way that he was led into unseemly encounters with the Munros, of Edinburgh,... | |
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Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead languages ; but I could teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language dead or living. 
