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The Personal Life Of David Livingstone

CHAPTER II
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With equal justice we may quote it as a proof of his undying gratitude to any one that had shown him kindness.
[Footnote 17: Not in the same _parish_, as stated afterward by Professor Owen.

Hunter was born in East Kilbride, and Livingstone in Blantyre.

The error is repeated in notices of Livingstone in some other quarters.] On all his fellow-students and acquaintances the simplicity, frankness, and kindliness of Livingstone's character made a deep impression.

Mr.
J.S.Cook, now of London, who spent three months with him at Ongar, writes: "He was so kind and gentle in word and deed to all about him that all loved him.

He had always words of sympathy at command, and was ready to perform acts of sympathy for those who were suffering." The Rev.G.D.Watt, a brother Scotchman, who went as a missionary to India, has a vivid remembrance of Livingstone's mode of discussion; he showed great simplicity of view, along with a certain roughness or bluntness of manner; great kindliness, and yet great persistence in holding to his own ideas.


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