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قراءة كتاب Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes
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LIFE OF
Oliver Wendell Holmes
BY
E.E. BROWN
Author of "Life of Garfield," "Life of Washington,"
"From Night to Light," ETC., ETC.
CHICAGO NEW YORK
THE WERNER COMPANY
COPYRIGHT 1884
By D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY
COPYRIGHT 1895
By THE WERNER COMPANY
Holmes
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
CONTENTS.
| Chap. | Page. | |
| I. | Ancestry | 9 |
| II. | Boyhood | 20 |
| III. | Early Recollections | 30 |
| IV. | Other Reminiscences | 40 |
| V. | Abroad | 49 |
| VI. | Change in the Home | 60 |
| VII. | The Professor | 67 |
| VIII. | The Lecturer | 74 |
| IX. | Naming the new Magazine | 83 |
| X. | Elsie Venner | 92 |
| XI. | Further Acquaintance | 107 |
| XII. | Favorites of Song | 114 |
| XIII. | The Man of Science | 136 |
| XIV. | The Holmes Breakfast | 152 |
| XV. | Orations and Essays | 171 |
| XVI. | The Home Circle | 208 |
| XVII. | Love of Nature | 227 |
| XVIII. | The Harvard Medical School | 240 |
| XIX. | Tokens of Esteem | 284 |
| XX. | In Later Years | 302 |
| XXI. | Last Days | 320 |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES.
CHAPTER I.
ANCESTRY.
IN a quaint old gambrel-roofed house that once stood on Cambridge Common, Oliver Wendell Holmes—poet, professor, "beloved physician"—was born, on the twenty-ninth of August, 1809. His father, the Rev. Abiel Holmes, was the pastor of the "First Church" in Cambridge—
That ancient church whose lofty tower,
Beneath the loftier spire,
Is shadowed when the sunset hour
Clothes the tall shaft in fire.
Beneath the loftier spire,
Is shadowed when the sunset hour
Clothes the tall shaft in fire.
Here, in Revolutionary times, General Washington frequently worshiped, and the old homestead itself was the headquarters of the American army during the siege of