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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4, Chapter 12: Inner traits. (search)
o say that my father was worthy to be classed with either of these spiritual presences is to make a large, but not too large, claim for him. His head was imposing not from its size, for it was very compact, but from its balanced parts, culminating in the bump—a visible bump—of firmness, humorously commemorated by Lowell, which was the opposite pole Ante, 3.178. of the benignity residing in his face. Quincy has just called it, phrenologically speaking, a full one; and Ante, p. 317. Bronson Alcott, in his Boston conversations on Mrs. E. D. Cheney in the Open Court newspaper, p. 1143. Representative Men, in 1851, characterized my father in one masterly stroke as a phrenological head illuminated. My father inherited an enviably strong constitution, as was proved both by his longevity and by his exceptional recuperative powers when prostrated by illness. His digestion was perfect, and he used to say that he never knew what it was to have a stomach. He was wholly unfastidious ab