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OBITUARY.
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while we sit alone in our elderly gravity . They are freer from faults than verses for children usually are ; bat as we bold inaccuracies iu such works to be more heinous than in those who . se readers can detect fanlts for themselves , we point out a few expressions which need alteration . What sort of an epi - thet is " snow-back" ? And what is a
' * cent" to any bnt an American child ? The whole pretty story of the blackberries would become unreal to an English child through this one expression . Again : however terribly some little boys may swear , may other little boys speak of their " abominable mouths * ' ? There
is faulty grammar too , here and there . If parents will take pen iu hand to rectify these few errors , they will have a very pretty book to please and improve their children with .
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Art . VIII . — Castle's Manual of Surgery . 3 d edit . 10 * . 6 d .
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Lieut .-Col . Huch Robert Alcock . 1831 . Feb . 24 , in North Towny near Taunt on y after a few hours' illness , Lieut .-Col . Hugh Robert Alcock , Hon . East India Company ' s Service , in the 851 h year of his age . If the eulogy of the living could render a suitable tribute to the memory of departed worth ,
it would then be a pleasing employment to dilate on the numerous excellencies which exalted and adorned the character of this truly venerable man . We have never known an individual to whom the language of an admired poet ( though originally descriptive of an aged minister ) could be so well accommodated :
" Though old , he still retaiu'd His manly sense and energy of mind . Virtuous and wise he was , but not severe ; He still remember'd that he once was yonug ; His easy presence check'd no moderate
joy . Him , even the dissolute admired ; for he A graceful looseness , when be pleased , put on , And laughing could instruct . Much had he read ,
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Castle ' s Introduction to Medical Bo tany . 5 s . We have before had occasion to praise and recommend the useful compendia of which Mr . Castle is so industrious a compiler . Both those now before us are entitled to commendation ; and the Manual of Surgery , especially , is a book with which every professional student
should provide himself . " The mere walking from one ward to another , and taking a cursory view of the patient , is not a proper plan to be pursued : they should take with them a pocket companion , and when they meet with any particular case , they should first make their own observations , and then immediately
refer to know what they hare overlooked , or what is unusual to its general character . " Such is the ** pocket companion" which our author has here supplied . His chief materials are derived from the lectures of Sir Astley Cooper ; those of J . H Green , Esq . ; and S Cooper ' s Dictionary of Surgery .
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More had he seen ; he studied from the life , And in the original perused mankind . " In the social circle our la re friend shone with peculiar eminence , scattering smiles around , and exciting feeliugs of gladness and deep ) oy ' in the hearts of all who came withiu the sphere o ( his influence . Wherever he appeared , his
general intelligence , the playfulness of his wit , the cheerfulness of his disposition , and the urbanity of his manners , rendered him a delightful guest . To a mind tichly stored with knowledge , he also added the wisdom which leads its possessor to adapt his means to the attainment of the best ends . He had early discovered that ** Virtue alone is happiness below , " and to the culture of it , in
its various relations , he directed all the energies of bis nature . Amply did the fruits reward his toil . He secured for himself the enjoyment resulting from the pursuit of useful labours , from having endeavoured , by a course of honourable exertion , to leave the world better than he found it , and from the possession of a well-grounded hope of the favour of God to eternal life . He obtained
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Obituary . —Lieut .-Colonel Hugh Robert Alcock . 283
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1831, page 283, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2596/page/67/
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