Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... matters went on as they seemed to threaten , what was to become of me in a year or two ? Putting every thing else out of the question , where was I to find funds to meet old L- -'s annual demand of 450l . ? Relying on my prospects of ...
... matters went on as they seemed to threaten , what was to become of me in a year or two ? Putting every thing else out of the question , where was I to find funds to meet old L- -'s annual demand of 450l . ? Relying on my prospects of ...
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... matters , for the purpose of communicating the good news to her . I need hardly say with what eagerness I complied with the requisitions of the advertisement . Half an hour beheld my name and address in an envelope , with the ...
... matters , for the purpose of communicating the good news to her . I need hardly say with what eagerness I complied with the requisitions of the advertisement . Half an hour beheld my name and address in an envelope , with the ...
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... matters , she has had some difficulty in sending . She is , therefore , under the painful necessity of request- ing Dr. to abstain from future applications of this sort . As to Dr. ' s offer of his medical ser- vices to Lady -'s family ...
... matters , she has had some difficulty in sending . She is , therefore , under the painful necessity of request- ing Dr. to abstain from future applications of this sort . As to Dr. ' s offer of his medical ser- vices to Lady -'s family ...
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... matter over , and give you permanent ease . " I do not think there ever lived a professional man who could speak with such an assuring air as Sir " I am ready , Sir Are the servants sent out ? " she inquired of one of the women present ...
... matter over , and give you permanent ease . " I do not think there ever lived a professional man who could speak with such an assuring air as Sir " I am ready , Sir Are the servants sent out ? " she inquired of one of the women present ...
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... matters of that sort . I visited him every evening , and found him on each occasion verifying my apprehensions , for he was sinking rapidly . His mental energies , however , seemed to increase in an inverse ratio with the decline of his ...
... matters of that sort . I visited him every evening , and found him on each occasion verifying my apprehensions , for he was sinking rapidly . His mental energies , however , seemed to increase in an inverse ratio with the decline of his ...
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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...