"Compatibly" Quotes from Famous Books
... patient. You made me despair, and from that moment I lost strength.' My father said that he had often since seen the paramount importance, for the sake of the patient, of keeping up the hope and with it the strength of the nurse in charge. This he sometimes found difficult to do compatibly with truth. One old gentleman, however, caused him no such perplexity. He was sent for by Mr.P—, who said, 'From all that I have seen and heard of you I believe that you are the sort of man who will speak ... — The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Volume I • Francis Darwin |