Pioneer Life In Kentucky A Series Of Reminiscential Letters From D Drake To Sketch By His Son Cd Drake

Author : Daniel Drake
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230429816
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Pioneer Life in Kentucky a Series of Reminiscential Letters written by Daniel Drake and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 edition. Excerpt: ... BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DANIEL DRAKE, M. D. The life whose first fifteen years are depicted in this volume, was one of devotion to science under many difficulties and with many drawbacks. It was one, also, which surmounted those obstacles and achieved success and distinction. The lesson of patience and perseverance learned in his childhood and youth in the wilds of the " Dark and Bloody Ground" molded that life. With him who learned it, as recounted in the Letters now made public, labor was not more a destiny than a choice, and the pursuit of knowledge not less a desire than a necessity. Par back in my childhood's memories are recollections of his protracted study, his keen and constant observation, his intense search of knowledge through men and books. One of the most distinct impressions left upon me by recollections extending through more than a third of a century prior to his death, is, that he sought knowledge for its own sake and for the good it enabled him to do, rather than for the profit it brought to himself. Prom my earliest memory to the close of his distinguished career, a broad public spirit inspired his actions; too much so, oftentimes, for his personal benefit. Had he lived more selfishly, the occasion for this prefatory memoir in connection with these letters, might not have existed. An extended memoir of Doctor Drake, by Edward D. Mansfield, having been published in 1855, I shall confine myself principally to references to his professional and public life, rather than to details of his personal history. To obtain any just view of his professional and public character and of the obstacles to improvement which he met and overcame, we should know something of what Cincinnati was when he, in December, 1800, became a student...