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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: PASSAGES DIARY OF A LATE PHYSICIAN. CHAPTER I. EARLY STRUGGLES. Can any thing be conceived more dreary and disheartening than the prospect, before a young London physician, who, without friends or fortune, yet with high aspirations after professional eminence, is striving to weave around him what is technically called a connexion V Such was my case. After having exhausted the slender finances allotted me from the funds of a poor but somewhat ambitious family in passing through the usual routine of a college and medical education, I found myself, about my twenty-sixth year, in London.?possessed of about 100/. in cash, a few books, a tolerable wardrobe, an inexhaustible fund of animal spirits, and a wife?a lovely young creature whom I had been absurd enough, some few weeks before, to marry, merely because we loved each other. She was the only daughter of a very worthy fellow-townsman of mine, a widower; whose fortunes, alas! had decayed long before their possessor. Emily was the glory of his age, and, need I add, the pride of my youth, and after having assiduously attended her fatheithrough his last illness, the sole and rich return was his daughter's heart. I must own that when we found ourselves fairly housed in the mighty metropolis of England, with so poor an exchequer, and the means of replenishing it so remote and contingent, we were somewhat startled at the boldness of the step we had taken. Nothing venture, nothing have, however, was my maxim; and I felt supported by that unaccountable conviction which clings to all in such circumstances as mine, up to the very pinching moment, but no longer?that there must be thousands of ways of getting a livelihood to which we can turn at a moment's warning. And then the swelling thought of being the architect of on...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217773171
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 106
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217773176
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 204 gr


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