 | 1844 - 500 pages
...John Hunter, suffering under a disease of the heart, was in the habit of remarking, that ' his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him,' — and he is said to have died from the effects of an altercation with one of his colleagues. We lately... | |
 | 1846 - 502 pages
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 | William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pages
...in constant jeopardy from his ungovernable temper ; and he had been heard to remark, that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him." Engaged one day in an unpleasant altercation with his colleagues, and being peremptorily contradicted,... | |
 | 1850 - 694 pages
...in constant jeopardy from his ungovernable temper ; and he had been heard to remark that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him." Engaged one duy in an unpleasant altercation with his colleagues in the board-room of St. George's... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 814 pages
...excitement, especially anger, to which he was always prone, so that, to use his own words, " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him." He nevertheless persevered in his anatomical and physiological experiments, and in his surgical practice,... | |
 | Frederick Bridges - 1862 - 340 pages
...in constant jeopardy from his ungovernable temper, and he has been heard to remark, that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him." Engaged one day in an unpleasant altercation with his colleagues, and being peremptorily contradicted,... | |
 | sir James Paget (1st bart.) - 1877 - 112 pages
...time he was in expectation of sudden death in some emotion, so that he used to say that ' his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him.' 2 It is believed that Hunter did not begin to collect for his own museum till after his return from... | |
 | Sir James Paget - 1877 - 112 pages
...time he was in expectation of sudden death in some emotion, so that he used to say that ' his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him.' 2 It is believed that Hunter did not begin to collect for his own museum till after his return from... | |
 | Sir John Russell Reynolds - 1877 - 854 pages
...over-exertion, and still more by his uncontrollable temper ; he was accustomed to say, that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him;"' a remarkable expression, and a sad anticipation of the actual ending. The close of 1789 brought with... | |
 | Sir John Russell Reynolds - 1877 - 902 pages
...over-exertion, and still more by his uncontrollable temper ; he was accustomed to say, that " his life was in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him;"3 a remarkable expression, and a sad anticipation of the actual ending. The close of 1789 brought... | |
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His life, he used to say, was ' in the hands of any rascal who chose to annoy and tease him. 
