Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . of old, loved to workalongside a true man. * I have no feeling ofage, said he one day to a valued and mostgifted fellow-worker, who had been assistinghim in a long days spell at arithmetical calcu-lations,— I have no feeling of age ; my mind is 330 THOMAS CHALMERS. as firm, my memory as perfect as ever. Theresonly one sign of age/ he added with a laugh ;* I canna bear to be contradicted. Then, sur-veying with triumph the long bristling array offigures which they had calculated and checkedtogether, * O man, he exclaimed eagerly, * whata quantity of work
Thomas Chalmers : a biographical study . of old, loved to workalongside a true man. * I have no feeling ofage, said he one day to a valued and mostgifted fellow-worker, who had been assistinghim in a long days spell at arithmetical calcu-lations,— I have no feeling of age ; my mind is 330 THOMAS CHALMERS. as firm, my memory as perfect as ever. Theresonly one sign of age/ he added with a laugh ;* I canna bear to be contradicted. Then, sur-veying with triumph the long bristling array offigures which they had calculated and checkedtogether, * O man, he exclaimed eagerly, * whata quantity of work I could have gone throughif I had always had you at my side ! Sir, I havebeen taigled (entangled) with a set of speakingmachines all my life. Anon, however, having pioneered the waythrough all the early difficulties, he shook him-self free about the end of 1844, when he wassixty-four years of age, from these exhaustingcomplications; and again he used his new-recovered liberty in boyish rambles to many ofhis old remembered scenes. ^2^^. 7^^^
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