Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 pagini |
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Pagina v
... means ought to be taken , as early as possible , for their preser- vation . I regret , likewise , the failure of the plan for preventing the spread of fires , ( see page 289 ) which has three as strong re- commendations as any plan ever ...
... means ought to be taken , as early as possible , for their preser- vation . I regret , likewise , the failure of the plan for preventing the spread of fires , ( see page 289 ) which has three as strong re- commendations as any plan ever ...
Pagina 14
... means of saving many a deserving and industrious man from ruin . No similar institution was ever conducted on a more favourable , and at the same time , prudent plan , than this bank adopted at the time here men- tioned . alas ! did ...
... means of saving many a deserving and industrious man from ruin . No similar institution was ever conducted on a more favourable , and at the same time , prudent plan , than this bank adopted at the time here men- tioned . alas ! did ...
Pagina 18
... means , it often happened that one patient had a much larger portion of calomel , and another of jalap , than was intended by the doctors . The fatal consequences of this may be easily con- ceived . An intelligent citizen , who has ...
... means , it often happened that one patient had a much larger portion of calomel , and another of jalap , than was intended by the doctors . The fatal consequences of this may be easily con- ceived . An intelligent citizen , who has ...
Pagina 19
... means of prevention and of cure . They published an address to the citizens , signed by the president and secretary , recommending " to avoid all unnecessary inter- course with the infected ; to place marks on the doors or win- dows ...
... means of prevention and of cure . They published an address to the citizens , signed by the president and secretary , recommending " to avoid all unnecessary inter- course with the infected ; to place marks on the doors or win- dows ...
Pagina 20
... means of stopping the progress of the fever , and that they placed more dependance on the burning of gunpowder . The benefits of vinegar and camphor , they added , were confined chiefly to infected rooms ; and they could not be too ...
... means of stopping the progress of the fever , and that they placed more dependance on the burning of gunpowder . The benefits of vinegar and camphor , they added , were confined chiefly to infected rooms ; and they could not be too ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.