Series 03: John Brady Nash letters, January 1914-December 1915 - Page 389
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an edition of "The Tragedies". Just what I wanted as it contained Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and the others which I did not bring. The two first written must be read through before I leave Egypt. The issue is "Everyman's Library, edited by Ernest Rhys (evidently a Welshman) and published by J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. London". There is a glossary of 13 pages but no notes. However 'twill do for me here.
The Ruskin of quotation is: "Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see." Modern Painters. Perfectly correct! To look and to see truly are mongst the most uncommon of human attributes. Very few persons learn to look. There is an axiom in the Medical profession "More mistakes are made by not looking than by not knowing", and in accord with my experience there is not sentence more momentarily true in regard to the work of the members of the Medical man.
19-5-15 – 9 p.m. – Joe dear:/ The best composed and neatest letter you have ever written to me arrived this evening. For it many thanks. You put it together at various stages on different days, this method gave you chance to write much more than can be done in a spasmodic effort a few minutes before post time. You put in not sentences bearing upon business matters. Upon these I like to be kept posted.
It is hard by pictures or any other means to stir the lazy man or the unpatriotic woman out of the lethargy which often follows upon having too much food and a sufficiency of money. However it takes a lot of differing people to make up a world. Those who will fight and work must pull through for those who wont lend a helping hand. It has always been the same. Empires & kingdoms have been lost when