Lanterna Rally

Author: Rice Memorial Committee

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-22

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781332859078

Excerpt from Charles Rice, Born October 4, 1841, Died May 13, 1901 The same friend relates that a gentleman stated that Dr. Rice could read twenty languages and could converse uently in eight others. When this remark was repeated to him, he very promptly said that the gentleman knew nothing about it. It is probable that he did know some thing of as many languages, but in comparison with the linguistic acquirements of certain scholars whom he probably had in mind, as Dr. Reinhold Rost of England, or Cardinal Mezzofanti of Italy, he did not consider his own attainments worthy of special note. After his active work on the United States Pharmacopoeia revision had been completed, his philological studies were almost his whole recreation, and one can well imagine the eagerness with which he turned to those silent companions, his books, after his hard physical and mental labors of the day at the Hospital. The photographic view of Dr. Rice in his private library at Bellevue shows him in a characteristic attitude, hunting up a reference in a Sanskrit dictionary, which is resting on a rack of his own invention. His mechanical and constructive ability will be spoken of elsewhere, and. It must not be sup posed that while his knowledge of the classics was profound, that'he was deficient in mechanical ability, nor that he did not love the so-called practical occupations of life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."