John Hunter, D. D: A Life (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from John Hunter, D. D: A Life

Some apology may reasonably be required Of a son who presumes to write the biography of his father. In this case there are two reasons why a sound rule should be broken. My father was so diflident that he would have shrunk from the idea of a biography of himself. Only the knowledge that it was being written by one Of his sons would at all have reconciled him to it. And, secondly, he was not a letter-writer and did not keep a diary. He did not use letters...