Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . o -. CORNER OF TREMONT AND BKOMFIELD STREETS ABOUT 1870. IN OLD BOSTON 203 the meeting-house. That his sermons shouldhave been thus simple in style is greatly to themans credit inasmuch as he was already themaster of twenty languages and of much of theliterature in which these twenty are , too, in an age when German dictionarieswere so rare that Parker once walked fromWatertown to Professor Ticknors in Bostonto consult one. An ordinary day with thisprodigious student, — before his
Romantic days in old Boston; the story of the city and of its people during the nineteenth century . o -. CORNER OF TREMONT AND BKOMFIELD STREETS ABOUT 1870. IN OLD BOSTON 203 the meeting-house. That his sermons shouldhave been thus simple in style is greatly to themans credit inasmuch as he was already themaster of twenty languages and of much of theliterature in which these twenty are , too, in an age when German dictionarieswere so rare that Parker once walked fromWatertown to Professor Ticknors in Bostonto consult one. An ordinary day with thisprodigious student, — before his marriage, —has been described thus, Rising at seven,before the midday meal he read the books ofEsther, Nehemiah, Solomons Song, first twelvechapters of Isaiah; wrote part of a sermon;finished one hundred and fifty pages of AllansLife of Scott and two of Herders dinner read in a desultory manner;walked two or three miles; found a queer plant;gathered chestnuts; geologized a little; wentto ride . . took tea and reluctantly devotedthe evening to social intercourse. Obviously this man
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