Rapporto sul cholera-morbus diretto al supremo magistrato di salute di Napoli, dalla sua Facoltà medica.

  • Naples (Italy)
Date:
1831
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Rapporto sul cholera-morbus diretto al supremo magistrato di salute di Napoli, dalla sua Facoltà medica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

    56/82 (page 20)
    my heavenly Fatlier ; Christ, my Saviour, my Pattern, and my Guide, without his spirit we are none of his, — this, I have often heard him say, is the essence of my faith. It was a faith that produced a noble cha- racter and a good life. His religion, though grave, earnest, devout, as it should be, was also cheerful and joyous. By those not intimately acquainted with him, not accustomed to meet him frequently and familiarly, he was misunderstood and misjudged in this respect. He seemed to them to present a somewhat uninviting exhibition of religion ; to be stern and austere, — the essence and embodiment of an old-fashioned Puritan. He had ali the high-souled earnestness, and consecra- tion to duty and to God, that marked the Puritan, but not his austerity. He had largo mirthfulness, great playfulnesss, of character. He had a keen, and, if need be, somewhat sarcastic wit of his own, — always, however, kept under due restraint ; and a just appre- ciation of wit in others. He delighted to see, and helped to make, the domestic circle cheerful ; and en- joyed to the full whatever might be innocently intro- duced to enliven the social intercourse of the family, and refresh the spirit beneath the burden of life's sterner duties. Mr. Grant early made a profession of his religious faith at this aitar, where he was baptized ; and in May, 1818, he was chosen a deacon of the church,— succeeding in that office his father, Moses Grant, who