...consequence of the usual avenues to distinction being closed against him. " Jesse Foot," he says, " accuses me of not understanding the dead languages;...which he never knew in any language, dead or living." Perhaps it may be accounted a fortunate circumstance, that a great similarity of character existed...

...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...

...serious affairs of men ; Paré advanced the art of surgery, but Hunter taught the science of it. 1 " Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead...which he never knew in any language, dead or living." IX AFTER HUNTER THE body of John Hunter was taken in a sedanchair from the hospital to Leicester Square,...

...serious affairs of men ; Paré advanced the art of surgery, but Hunter taught the science of it. 1 "Jesse Foot accuses me of not understanding the dead...which he never knew in any language, dead or living." IX AFTER HUNTER THE body of John Hunter was taken in a sedanchair from the hospital to Leicester Square,...

...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...

...everything Hunter said or did with acrid personal invective : " Jesse 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." i successful teacher of it, but lie always remained a learner in that great book of nature which was...

...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,...

...twitted with this lack of knowledge of the " dead languages" in after life, he said of his opponent, " I could teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." By his second year in dissection he had become so skilful that he was given charge of some of the classes...

...twitted with this lack of knowledge of the " dead languages" in after life, he said of his opponent, " I could teach him that on the dead body which he never knew in any language, dead or living." By his second year in dissection he had become so skilful that he was given charge of some of the classes...

...kept his terms. The tale is often quoted that years afterward Jesse Foot, a surgeon and publicist, disparaged him for his ignorance of the ancient classics....in any language dead or living." Hunter was never overmodest, and Foot was a foolish person, whose jaundiced "Life of Hunter" you shall read with groans....