Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... moment . Self- deception has now lost its power ; and every action stands forth in its own undisguised shape . Standing on this awful point , which separates time from eternity , they speak in a manner which the experience of ages has ...
... moment . Self- deception has now lost its power ; and every action stands forth in its own undisguised shape . Standing on this awful point , which separates time from eternity , they speak in a manner which the experience of ages has ...
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... moment , but no longer - that there must be thousands of ways of getting a livelihood to which we can turn at a mo- ment's warning . And then the swelling thought of being the architect of one's own fortunes ! As , how- ever , daily ...
... moment , but no longer - that there must be thousands of ways of getting a livelihood to which we can turn at a mo- ment's warning . And then the swelling thought of being the architect of one's own fortunes ! As , how- ever , daily ...
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... moment whom should I meet but my dear wife ; for we had both been talking all night long , and at breakfast - time , about the probable result of my interview with the bookseller ; and her anxious affection would not permit her to wait ...
... moment whom should I meet but my dear wife ; for we had both been talking all night long , and at breakfast - time , about the probable result of my interview with the bookseller ; and her anxious affection would not permit her to wait ...
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... moment to examine me through his eye - glass , and then direct me to inspect the swelled foot of a favourite pointer ! Darting a look of anger at the insulting coxcomb , I instantly Five years withdrew , without uttering a word ...
... moment to examine me through his eye - glass , and then direct me to inspect the swelled foot of a favourite pointer ! Darting a look of anger at the insulting coxcomb , I instantly Five years withdrew , without uttering a word ...
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... moment . If the fiend would occasionally flit across the dreary chamber of my heart - a strong , an unceasing confi- dence in the goodness and power of my Maker always repelled the fearful visitant . Even yet , rapidly as I seemed ...
... moment . If the fiend would occasionally flit across the dreary chamber of my heart - a strong , an unceasing confi- dence in the goodness and power of my Maker always repelled the fearful visitant . Even yet , rapidly as I seemed ...
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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...