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by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

[The Physician and Poet--Not the Jurist O. W. Holmes, Jr.]

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Title: The Professor at the Breakfast Table

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.)

Release Date: August 15, 2006 [EBook #2665]
Last Updated: October 28,2012

Language: English

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THE PROFESSOR
AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE

by Oliver Wendell Holmes

CONTENTS

PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION

THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE.

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PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION.

The reader of to-day will not forget, I trust, that it is nearly a quarter of a century since these papers were written. Statements which were true then are not necessarily true now. Thus, the speed of the trotting horse has been so much developed that the record of the year when the fastest time to that date was given must be very considerably altered, as may be seen by referring to a note on page 49 of the "Autocrat." No doubt many other statements and opinions might be more or less modified if I were writing today instead of having written before the war, when the world and I were both more than a score of years younger.

These papers followed close upon the track of the "Autocrat." They had to endure the trial to which all second comers are subjected, which is a formidable ordeal for the least as well as the greatest. Paradise Regain