Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - Всего страниц: 566 |
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... absurd stories of diminutive men , as well as of gigantic nations ; but to most of them we may apply the words of Congreve-- Fernandez Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee , Thou liar of the first magnitude . It is nevertheless true ...
... absurd stories of diminutive men , as well as of gigantic nations ; but to most of them we may apply the words of Congreve-- Fernandez Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee , Thou liar of the first magnitude . It is nevertheless true ...
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... absurd medicines , such as the heart of a mule ripped up alive , a portion of the lungs of a man who had died a violent death , or the hand of a thief who had been gibbeted on some particular day . Nauseous medicines have ever been ...
... absurd medicines , such as the heart of a mule ripped up alive , a portion of the lungs of a man who had died a violent death , or the hand of a thief who had been gibbeted on some particular day . Nauseous medicines have ever been ...
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... absurd than the notions regard- ing some of these supposed cures a ring made of the hinge of a coffin had the power of relieving cramps ; which were also mitigated by having a rusty old sword hung up by the bedside . Nails driven in an ...
... absurd than the notions regard- ing some of these supposed cures a ring made of the hinge of a coffin had the power of relieving cramps ; which were also mitigated by having a rusty old sword hung up by the bedside . Nails driven in an ...
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... absurdity of the following relation of one of his cures : Miss O'Connor was a nun in a convent near Chelms- ford , and in December 1820 , being about thirty years old , was suddenly attacked by a violent pain in the right hand , which ...
... absurdity of the following relation of one of his cures : Miss O'Connor was a nun in a convent near Chelms- ford , and in December 1820 , being about thirty years old , was suddenly attacked by a violent pain in the right hand , which ...
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... absurdity in his " En- chanted Island , " where Ariel says , Anoint the sword which pierced him , with this Weapon - salve , and wrap it close from air Till I have time to visit it again . Sir Kenelm's sympathetic powder was applied in ...
... absurdity in his " En- chanted Island , " where Ariel says , Anoint the sword which pierced him , with this Weapon - salve , and wrap it close from air Till I have time to visit it again . Sir Kenelm's sympathetic powder was applied in ...
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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.