Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 sider |
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Side iii
... received . I shall , however , be gratified , if certain portions of it be found to possess suffi- cient interest in some degree to bear up and rescue from con- demnation , the light and trivial portions . To chronological order ...
... received . I shall , however , be gratified , if certain portions of it be found to possess suffi- cient interest in some degree to bear up and rescue from con- demnation , the light and trivial portions . To chronological order ...
Side 37
... encouraged immediately to enter upon the important duties of the appoint- ment . September 16 . Information is received from Stephen Girard and ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 37 Egyptian Toleration and Kindness to Christians.
... encouraged immediately to enter upon the important duties of the appoint- ment . September 16 . Information is received from Stephen Girard and ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 37 Egyptian Toleration and Kindness to Christians.
Side 38
... received . Philadelphia , September 18 . At a meeting of the committee of citizens appointed to the care of the sick , & c . Resolved - That the committee of citizens appointed to the care of the poor and sick afflicted with the ...
... received . Philadelphia , September 18 . At a meeting of the committee of citizens appointed to the care of the sick , & c . Resolved - That the committee of citizens appointed to the care of the poor and sick afflicted with the ...
Side 42
... received , this hospital , provided for an extraordinary occasion , would have been filled with patients whose cases fell within the cognizance of the ma- nagers of the Pennsylvania Hospital . The number of persons received into ...
... received , this hospital , provided for an extraordinary occasion , would have been filled with patients whose cases fell within the cognizance of the ma- nagers of the Pennsylvania Hospital . The number of persons received into ...
Side 43
... received , did not survive their entrance into the hospital two days ; and of those that died in the hospi- tal , many would have been rescued had they been taken there in proper season . Before I conclude this chapter , let me add ...
... received , did not survive their entrance into the hospital two days ; and of those that died in the hospi- tal , many would have been rescued had they been taken there in proper season . Before I conclude this chapter , let me add ...
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Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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...
Side 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.