John Greenleaf Whittier

My Summer with Dr. Singletary John Greenleaf Whittier

DR. SINGLETARY is dead! Well, what of it? All who live die sooner or later; and pray who was Dr. Singletary, that his case should claim particular attention? Why, in the first place, Dr. Singletary, as a man born to our common inheritance of joy and sorrow, earthly instincts and heavenward aspirations, -our brother in sin and suffering, wisdom and folly, love, and pride, and vanity, -has a claim upon the universal sympathy. Besides, whatever the living man may have been, death has now invested him with its great solemnity. He is with the immortal