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... MEDICINE , THE CYCLE OF THE SEASONS , THE HUMORS of Law , THE MUTE CREATION , ix 17 • 62 96 • 140 · 189 • 243 273 PULPIT PECULIARITIES , 319 THE LARCENIES OF LITERATURE , 357 A STRAY LEAF , 899 : CAXTON AVERY FRANKLIN BOOK - CRAFT ...
... MEDICINE , THE CYCLE OF THE SEASONS , THE HUMORS of Law , THE MUTE CREATION , ix 17 • 62 96 • 140 · 189 • 243 273 PULPIT PECULIARITIES , 319 THE LARCENIES OF LITERATURE , 357 A STRAY LEAF , 899 : CAXTON AVERY FRANKLIN BOOK - CRAFT ...
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... medicine , and charged the doctor never to show his face to him again . This wretched man died unlamented in his 86th year - a long lease shamefully abused and dishonored . His property was estimated at about £ 130,000 ! How horribly ...
... medicine , and charged the doctor never to show his face to him again . This wretched man died unlamented in his 86th year - a long lease shamefully abused and dishonored . His property was estimated at about £ 130,000 ! How horribly ...
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... medicines , is beneficial in small , though injurious in large quantities . No man , who is not pleased with himself , even in a personal sense , can please others , for it is the belief of his own grace that makes him graceful and ...
... medicines , is beneficial in small , though injurious in large quantities . No man , who is not pleased with himself , even in a personal sense , can please others , for it is the belief of his own grace that makes him graceful and ...
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... medicine , quacks in religion , and quacks in politics know this , and act upon that knowledge . There is scarcely any one who may not , like a trout , be taken by tickling . " - Southey . WORTHY Sir Thomas Browne has nobly sought to ...
... medicine , quacks in religion , and quacks in politics know this , and act upon that knowledge . There is scarcely any one who may not , like a trout , be taken by tickling . " - Southey . WORTHY Sir Thomas Browne has nobly sought to ...
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... medicine would ever have been made the vehicle of such gross absurdities and cunning impostures , as its past , and especially its earlier history reveals . We are not about , however , to cast any imputation upon the science of ...
... medicine would ever have been made the vehicle of such gross absurdities and cunning impostures , as its past , and especially its earlier history reveals . We are not about , however , to cast any imputation upon the science of ...
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Page 193 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 382 - Every thing did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear it was great pity. "Fie, fie, fie!
Page 282 - But the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone...
Page 99 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food: For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 231 - No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!
Page 398 - And when Abraham saw that the man blessed not God, he said unto him, " Wherefore dost thou not worship the most high God, Creator of heaven and earth...
Page 383 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain.
Page 392 - ... Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when Summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when Autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Page 215 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 228 - THE warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the year On the earth, her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.