Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton.

  • Thomas Hodgkin
Date:
1917
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Credit: Life and letters of Thomas Hodgkin / by Louise Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He describes an acquaintance as— , In that needlessly elderly condition into which so many | of our contemporaries subside. Writing to his daughter at College on the need of daily exercise : If ever you find evening coming on without your having put your nose out of doors all day, may your conscience prick you so that the blood comes. Deep down in my heart there is a tendency towards the Chinese worship of ancestors. The mistakes of good and holy men and women, how strange they are and how difficult to rectify. Always try to keep the sunward side of your nature uppermost. When, having left his keys behind, his wife sent them to him : A new verse must be added to the celebrated chapter in Proverbs, ‘ She remembereth the keys of her husband when he hath forgotten them, and sendeth them after him into the city.' After describing a crowded meeting : Had a fly been interested in the subject, it would have had some difficulty in finding a place. Of the Newcastle climate : Our shy Newcastle always puts on her veil when people come to visit her. Routine is a good servant, and one that we cannot wholly dispense with, but a bad master. When reading for a lecture : How much pleasanter is the work of filling the cask than that of emptying it. I look up to those early volumes of * Italy and her Invaders * with the same respect for their judgment that I feel for our dear Edward’s, and feel that my child is now wiser than I.