Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - Всего страниц: 566 |
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... Italians Piccoluomini , the Flemings Mennekin , —whence , no doubt , our term Mannikin given to little men , and Minikin applied to small pins . A very curious case of a dwarf born from parents of the usual stature was exhibited in ...
... Italians Piccoluomini , the Flemings Mennekin , —whence , no doubt , our term Mannikin given to little men , and Minikin applied to small pins . A very curious case of a dwarf born from parents of the usual stature was exhibited in ...
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... Italy , and Taurus , Caucasen , and Iman , in Asia , by inter- rupting the course of cold winds , render the quite dry country below them warmer , and the countries above them colder , than is equivalent to the proportionate difference ...
... Italy , and Taurus , Caucasen , and Iman , in Asia , by inter- rupting the course of cold winds , render the quite dry country below them warmer , and the countries above them colder , than is equivalent to the proportionate difference ...
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... Italy and Portugal , pins and needles are frequently driven under the nails , in what is vulgarly called the quick , to excite an excru- ciating pain if life should not have fled . The most certain evidence , when bodies are long kept ...
... Italy and Portugal , pins and needles are frequently driven under the nails , in what is vulgarly called the quick , to excite an excru- ciating pain if life should not have fled . The most certain evidence , when bodies are long kept ...
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... Italy to practise , called themselves medici , which Cato wanted to change into mendici , for , said he , " These creatures , ( Illi Græculi , ) quit their native country , where they were starving , to seek their fortune in Rome ( ut ...
... Italy to practise , called themselves medici , which Cato wanted to change into mendici , for , said he , " These creatures , ( Illi Græculi , ) quit their native country , where they were starving , to seek their fortune in Rome ( ut ...
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... Italy , accustom themselves easily to this disgusting diet on their return ; and their troops , who live amongst the Samoiedes , thrive uncommonly well on raw flesh and rein - deer blood . It is in temperate regions that man displays ...
... Italy , accustom themselves easily to this disgusting diet on their return ; and their troops , who live amongst the Samoiedes , thrive uncommonly well on raw flesh and rein - deer blood . It is in temperate regions that man displays ...
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Стр. 529 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Стр. 25 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Стр. 403 - If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions...
Стр. 146 - For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Стр. 445 - The brave man is not he who feels no fear, . For that were stupid and irrational, But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Стр. 127 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Стр. 25 - To indulge the power of fiction, and send imagination out upon the wing, is often the sport of those who delight too much in silent speculation.
Стр. 25 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention, all other intellectual gratifications are rejected, the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth.
Стр. 403 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.