Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - Počet stran: 472 |
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Strana iii
... employed his time . Whether this be , as I suppose , correct with respect to other writers , it is literally true as regards myself . If I felt a few months since , as I now feel , on the subject , the materials which compose this ...
... employed his time . Whether this be , as I suppose , correct with respect to other writers , it is literally true as regards myself . If I felt a few months since , as I now feel , on the subject , the materials which compose this ...
Strana xi
... employed , is no justification of a bad perform- ance ; but it may somewhat extenuate the defects of a mid- dling one . I have found several objections made to parts of it . Most of them I have removed . Some few , resting on the ...
... employed , is no justification of a bad perform- ance ; but it may somewhat extenuate the defects of a mid- dling one . I have found several objections made to parts of it . Most of them I have removed . Some few , resting on the ...
Strana xii
... employed suitable persons to go through the city and liberties , and make inquiry at every house , without exception , for the names and occupations of the dead . The disobliging temper of some , and the fears of others , that an ...
... employed suitable persons to go through the city and liberties , and make inquiry at every house , without exception , for the names and occupations of the dead . The disobliging temper of some , and the fears of others , that an ...
Strana 17
... employed it a week before Dr. Rush . On this point , I cannot pretend to decide . But whoever was the first to intro- For this account of the symptoms of the disorder , I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Currie , from whose letter to ...
... employed it a week before Dr. Rush . On this point , I cannot pretend to decide . But whoever was the first to intro- For this account of the symptoms of the disorder , I am indebted to the kindness of Dr. Currie , from whose letter to ...
Strana 18
... from it , has informed me , that a removal of the sick from a close , warm room to one a few degrees cooler , which practice he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- 18 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
... from it , has informed me , that a removal of the sick from a close , warm room to one a few degrees cooler , which practice he employed several times daily , produced a most extraordi- 18 ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 .
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Strana 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Strana 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Strana 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Strana 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Strana 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Strana 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Strana 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Strana 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Strana 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Strana 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.