Curiosities of Medical ExperienceR. Bentley, 1839 - Всего страниц: 566 |
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... philosopher calmly seated on ruins that often " speak that some- time they were a worthy building , " reflects with ... philosophers of old have long ceased to exist , yet the immortal works of those sages that have escaped the ravages ...
... philosopher calmly seated on ruins that often " speak that some- time they were a worthy building , " reflects with ... philosophers of old have long ceased to exist , yet the immortal works of those sages that have escaped the ravages ...
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... philosopher to have no further acquaintance with him . Every body has not this two - legged instru- ment ; but every one , with a little attention , may observe signs of this carping , fault - finding disposition , and take the same ...
... philosopher to have no further acquaintance with him . Every body has not this two - legged instru- ment ; but every one , with a little attention , may observe signs of this carping , fault - finding disposition , and take the same ...
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... philosopher informs us that Adam's stature was one hundred and twenty - three feet nine inches ; Eve's , one hundred and eighteen feet nine inches and three quarters ; Noah's , twenty feet short of Adam's ; Abraham's , twenty - eight ...
... philosopher informs us that Adam's stature was one hundred and twenty - three feet nine inches ; Eve's , one hundred and eighteen feet nine inches and three quarters ; Noah's , twenty feet short of Adam's ; Abraham's , twenty - eight ...
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... philosophers , whether it be lawful for a man in such extremity of pain and grief to make away himself , and how those men that do so are to be censured . The Pla- tonists approve of it , that it is lawful in such cases upon a necessity ...
... philosophers , whether it be lawful for a man in such extremity of pain and grief to make away himself , and how those men that do so are to be censured . The Pla- tonists approve of it , that it is lawful in such cases upon a necessity ...
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... philosopher , who searches for the elixir vite or the power of transmuting metals , and the judicial astrologer , are in the eyes of society madmen yet , do they reason on certain rational principles , and in many respects may be ...
... philosopher , who searches for the elixir vite or the power of transmuting metals , and the judicial astrologer , are in the eyes of society madmen yet , do they reason on certain rational principles , and in many respects may be ...
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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.