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MEMOIRS OF EIGHTY YEARS.
BY
GORDON HAKE,
PHYSICIAN.
“Could we elude the fiat,—all must die,—
Men would become their own posterity.”
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON,
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen.
1892.
(All rights reserved.)
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| I. | |
| My birth and parentage—My education, beginning eighty-four years ago, still incomplete—Death of my father | 1 |
| II. | |
| Obscure origin of Hakes and Gordons | 3 |
| III. | |
| My sister and my brother—Mischief, a sign of health in children—Friendship, a graft that can only be made while we are growing | 6 |
| IV. | |
| My aunt Wallinger—My vivid memory—Our relations in Yorkshire, the Rimington family—My mother’s uncles, the Clarkes | 8 |
| V. | |
| The Clarkes and the Pollocks—William Clarke a governor of St. Paul’s and of Christ’s Church Schools—He gave Sir Frederick Pollock a presentation to the one and me to the other. My first school-days at Hertford, and how after measles and scarlet fever I was sent [iv]home in order to die | 11 |
| VI. | |
| My rapid recovery and return to mischief after my illness, and the brutal treatment I received from the boys while I was falling sick | 15... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! |