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Alighieri, Dante

 
9781444662429: A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters

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The work here printed was done under conditions which should be known to the reader. In 1888 Mr. Latham, then a student inH ar yard College, in the full flush of youth and health, was stricken by complete paralysis of his lower limbs. The blow was the heavier, because up to the time of his seizure he had been distinguished for physical vigor and activity. The attack put a sudden end to the enjoyments of youth, and to the hopes of life. All the resources of medical art were vain; and it became evident that there was hardly a chance even of partial recovery, that the prospect before him was of permanent bodily disability, and that his days were henceforth to be passed monotonously upon the bed, with the little variety of a change to the couch or the invalids chair. A common spirit might well have been subdued by such a calamity. Mr. Titham faced his te with composure and detemunation. He determined not to be mastered by it.
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