Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... , they speak in a manner which the experience of ages has deemed to be prophetic as to the future , and which all must regard as the highest testimony concerning the past . The members of the medical profession , who are constantly.
... , they speak in a manner which the experience of ages has deemed to be prophetic as to the future , and which all must regard as the highest testimony concerning the past . The members of the medical profession , who are constantly.
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... manners , yet none ever thought of calling me in ! Had I been able to exhibit a line of car- riages at my door - or to open my house for the re- ception of company - or to dash about town in an elegant equipage - or be seen at the opera ...
... manners , yet none ever thought of calling me in ! Had I been able to exhibit a line of car- riages at my door - or to open my house for the re- ception of company - or to dash about town in an elegant equipage - or be seen at the opera ...
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... manner in which my fees were proffered convinced me that I should be cursed for a mercenary wretch if I ac- cepted them . I was therefore induced in each case to decline the guinea , though it would have pur- chased me a week's ...
... manner in which my fees were proffered convinced me that I should be cursed for a mercenary wretch if I ac- cepted them . I was therefore induced in each case to decline the guinea , though it would have pur- chased me a week's ...
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... manner which seemed to say that he would not take it rudely if I addressed him . I did so . I said , " I am afraid you are in great pain from that cough , sir ? ” — “ Yes , ” he gasped faintly , " and I don't know how to get rid of it ...
... manner which seemed to say that he would not take it rudely if I addressed him . I did so . I said , " I am afraid you are in great pain from that cough , sir ? ” — “ Yes , ” he gasped faintly , " and I don't know how to get rid of it ...
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... manner I have related , from morning to night , and for a miserably inadequate remuneration ? She submitted , however , to our mis- fortunes with infinitely more firmness and equanimity than I could pretend to ; and her uniform cheerful ...
... manner I have related , from morning to night , and for a miserably inadequate remuneration ? She submitted , however , to our mis- fortunes with infinitely more firmness and equanimity than I could pretend to ; and her uniform cheerful ...
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Page 3 - It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.
Page 107 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 108 - I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 120 - Fairest of them all. For his bride a soldier sought her, And a winning tongue had he, On the banks of Allan Water, None so gay as she.
Page 216 - The ghastly visage of death thus leering through the tinselry of fashion — " the vain show" of artificial joy — was a horrible mockery of the fooleries of life ! Indeed it was a most humiliating and shocking spectacle. Poor creature...