Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - Всего страниц: 566 |
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... given will show that most of our modern notions were known to the earliest writers , and were only improved in succeeding ages , as in like manner our present doctrines will in all proba- bility be advanced by future generations . The ...
... given will show that most of our modern notions were known to the earliest writers , and were only improved in succeeding ages , as in like manner our present doctrines will in all proba- bility be advanced by future generations . The ...
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... given offence , I shall most sincerely lament it . My materials have been gleaned from the works of many contemporaries , whose well - known and justly - appre- ciated names will in general appear : but I should be wanting in candour ...
... given offence , I shall most sincerely lament it . My materials have been gleaned from the works of many contemporaries , whose well - known and justly - appre- ciated names will in general appear : but I should be wanting in candour ...
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... given to them to match their apparent natural imper- fection tend constantly to increase their irritability . Thus the Latins called them Homunciones , the Italians Piccoluomini , the Flemings Mennekin , —whence , no doubt , our term ...
... given to them to match their apparent natural imper- fection tend constantly to increase their irritability . Thus the Latins called them Homunciones , the Italians Piccoluomini , the Flemings Mennekin , —whence , no doubt , our term ...
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... given us an incantation for setting dislocated bones . To this day charms are supposed to arrest the flow of blood : Tom Pots was but a serving - man , But yet he was a doctor good , He bound his kerchief on the wound , Sir Walter strel ...
... given us an incantation for setting dislocated bones . To this day charms are supposed to arrest the flow of blood : Tom Pots was but a serving - man , But yet he was a doctor good , He bound his kerchief on the wound , Sir Walter strel ...
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... toasts ; but on the glorious and immortal memory being given , an unblown lily , which the party had remarked , expanded its leaves and bloomed before us in all its splen- dour ! " How appropiate are the lines of Otway 26 UNLAWFUL CURES .
... toasts ; but on the glorious and immortal memory being given , an unblown lily , which the party had remarked , expanded its leaves and bloomed before us in all its splen- dour ! " How appropiate are the lines of Otway 26 UNLAWFUL CURES .
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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.