Memoir of the late James Hope, M.D. / by Mrs. Hope ; to which are added, remarks on classical education, by Dr. Hope; and letters from a senior to a junior physician, by Dr. Burder ; edited by Klein Grant.

  • Hope, Anne Fulton, 1809-1887.
Date:
1842
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Credit: Memoir of the late James Hope, M.D. / by Mrs. Hope ; to which are added, remarks on classical education, by Dr. Hope; and letters from a senior to a junior physician, by Dr. Burder ; edited by Klein Grant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SO much as lie had crowded into his short life. To one who knew him intimately, it is most interesting to read this ]iaper, and to notice how literally he acted up to its precepts; and how, after the lapse of nearly thirty years, he was in the habit of addressing to his young friends, admonitions exactly corresponding with those of the Rambler. Indeed, to this work, which was one of his early favourites, may be traced many of the sentiments which he was frequently heard to express, and many of the maxims on which he based his conduct. To the two years spent under Mr. Weidemann’s roof. Dr. Hope was accustomed to look back with the liighest satisfaction, as to a period in which he gained much general and diversified knowledge; and that expansion of intellect which rendered all his subse- quent labours comparatively easy. On afterwards going to a public school, where boys, for the most part, learn little or nothing beyond classics, he was called “ a walking dictionary,” or still more familiarly, “ an odd fellow, that knew every thing.” At the age of fourteen, our intelligent youth was placed at the Macclesfield grammar school, which was eligible not merely on account of its vicinity to his liome, but also from the high celebrity of Dr. Davies, who, during a period of more than twenty years, had been accustomed to send an unusual number of iiigh class-men to Oxford and Cambridge. This “ prince of pedagogues,” as his pupil liked to call liiin, was