Copy 1, Volume 2

The doctor &c / [Robert Southey].

  • Robert Southey
Date:
1834-1847
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The doctor &c / [Robert Southey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tioned upon the things which he knew. Upon which the examining master, moved less to com¬ passion by the impenetrable dulness of the man than to anger by his unreasonable complaint, tore off about an inch of paper, and pushing it to¬ wards him, desired him to write upon that all he knew ! And yet bulky books are composed, or com¬ piled by men who know as little as this poor empty individual. Tracts and treatises and tomes, may be, and are written by persons, to whom the smallest square sheet of delicate note paper, rose-coloured, or green, or blue, with its embossed border, manufactured expressly for ladies’ fingers and crow quills, would afford ample room, and verge enough, for expounding the sum total of their knowledge upon the subject whereon they undertake to enlighten the Were it possible for me to pour out all that I have taken in from him, of whose accumulated stores I, alas ! am now the sole living depository, I know not to what extent the precious reminis¬ cences might run.