Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - Всего страниц: 566 |
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... curious experiments were submitted to the Royal Society . The same practice has been subsequently illustrated by Professor Dumeril . Father Charleroix informs us that Čaraib cannibals had recourse to this process to fatten their ...
... curious experiments were submitted to the Royal Society . The same practice has been subsequently illustrated by Professor Dumeril . Father Charleroix informs us that Čaraib cannibals had recourse to this process to fatten their ...
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... curious case of a dwarf born from parents of the usual stature was exhibited in Paris in 1819 : her name was Anne Souvray ; she was born in the Vosges , and was only thirty - three inches in height . She was at that period seventy ...
... curious case of a dwarf born from parents of the usual stature was exhibited in Paris in 1819 : her name was Anne Souvray ; she was born in the Vosges , and was only thirty - three inches in height . She was at that period seventy ...
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... curious instance of marvellous growth is recorded in a tract called " Prodigium Willinghamense , " or an account of a surprising boy who was born at Willing- ham , near Cambridge , and upon whom the following epitaph was written ...
... curious instance of marvellous growth is recorded in a tract called " Prodigium Willinghamense , " or an account of a surprising boy who was born at Willing- ham , near Cambridge , and upon whom the following epitaph was written ...
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... curious . He selected for this purpose an orphan child of the name of Macgrath ; and , by dint of feeding , at the age of sixteen he had grown to the height of seven feet ; but his organization had been so exhausted by this forced ...
... curious . He selected for this purpose an orphan child of the name of Macgrath ; and , by dint of feeding , at the age of sixteen he had grown to the height of seven feet ; but his organization had been so exhausted by this forced ...
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... curious observations have been made . Women of high mental attainments have been known to produce children of genius , more frequently than men of a superior intellect ; although Haller relates the singular case of two noble females who ...
... curious observations have been made . Women of high mental attainments have been known to produce children of genius , more frequently than men of a superior intellect ; although Haller relates the singular case of two noble females who ...
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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.