Life and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D. (Volume 2); Late Archbishop of Dublin (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XV. 1862. Suffers from neuralgic gout.?Attends the session of the Statistical Society, and contributes a paper on Secondary Punishments?Letter to Rev. C. Wale?Visit of Mr. Senior?Mr. Senior's Journal?Experiments on Charring?Conversation on our 1'enal Code?Remarks on the falsehood of commonly received maxims?Visit of Dr. de Ricci, and interesting conversation on religious endowments. Iy the spring of 1862 he suffered greatly from an affection of the leg, supposed to be neuralgic gout; the pain was at times very severe, and the case a tedious one; but he entirely recovered from it, and was again enabled to pay a visit to his English friends, but being feeble, seemed to enjoy it less. That autumn his son-in-law and daughter paid him a visit from abroad, which greatly cheered and refreshed him; and later his friend Mr. Senior spent some time with him. He still continued occasionally to preach; but the weakness of his voice had increased, and the effort was evidently a painful one. But even in this year he came to the opening meetings of the Statistical Society, which he had so long and steadily supported, to receive the Lord-Lieutenant and to hear the address of the Solicitor-General. Late in the ' session' of the Society he contributed to their proceedings the paper containing the notes of a conversation between himself and Mr. Senior on Secondary Punishments, and took part in the discussion which followed. He continued to contribute articles to several magazines, and from time to time to add to the stores of his Commonplace Book; but letters were more and more of an effort to him. The following letter to his . son-in-law is the only one we give in this year. ' February 1, 1802. ' My dear Charles, ? .... To-day I enter on my seventy-sixth year. I do not...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XV. 1862. Suffers from neuralgic gout.?Attends the session of the Statistical Society, and contributes a paper on Secondary Punishments?Letter to Rev. C. Wale?Visit of Mr. Senior?Mr. Senior's Journal?Experiments on Charring?Conversation on our 1'enal Code?Remarks on the falsehood of commonly received maxims?Visit of Dr. de Ricci, and interesting conversation on religious endowments. Iy the spring of 1862 he suffered greatly from an affection of the leg, supposed to be neuralgic gout; the pain was at times very severe, and the case a tedious one; but he entirely recovered from it, and was again enabled to pay a visit to his English friends, but being feeble, seemed to enjoy it less. That autumn his son-in-law and daughter paid him a visit from abroad, which greatly cheered and refreshed him; and later his friend Mr. Senior spent some time with him. He still continued occasionally to preach; but the weakness of his voice had increased, and the effort was evidently a painful one. But even in this year he came to the opening meetings of the Statistical Society, which he had so long and steadily supported, to receive the Lord-Lieutenant and to hear the address of the Solicitor-General. Late in the ' session' of the Society he contributed to their proceedings the paper containing the notes of a conversation between himself and Mr. Senior on Secondary Punishments, and took part in the discussion which followed. He continued to contribute articles to several magazines, and from time to time to add to the stores of his Commonplace Book; but letters were more and more of an effort to him. The following letter to his . son-in-law is the only one we give in this year. ' February 1, 1802. ' My dear Charles, ? .... To-day I enter on my seventy-sixth year. I do not...

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February 2012

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978-0-217-50426-3

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