Affecting Scenes: Being Passages from the Diary of a Physician, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - Literature and medicine |
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... seemed by calling in the generous assistance of the Jews . My father had fortunately effected a policy on my life for 2000l . at an early period , on which some four- teen premiums had been paid ; and this available security , added to ...
... seemed by calling in the generous assistance of the Jews . My father had fortunately effected a policy on my life for 2000l . at an early period , on which some four- teen premiums had been paid ; and this available security , added to ...
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... 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 professional success , I ...
... 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 professional success , I ...
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... seemed to take some interest in the new views of the disease treated of , which I explained to him , and repeated , and ventured to assure him that they would certainly attract public attention . My heart leaped for joy as I saw his ...
... seemed to take some interest in the new views of the disease treated of , which I explained to him , and repeated , and ventured to assure him that they would certainly attract public attention . My heart leaped for joy as I saw his ...
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... seemed marked out for failure in my profession . Though my name shone on my door , and the respectable neighbourhood could not but have noticed the regularity and decorum of my habits and manners , yet none ever thought of calling me in ...
... seemed marked out for failure in my profession . Though my name shone on my door , and the respectable neighbourhood could not but have noticed the regularity and decorum of my habits and manners , yet none ever thought of calling me in ...
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... seemed sealed . My re- sources were rapidly melting away ; my expendi- ture , moderate as it was , was counterbalanced by no incomings . A prison and starvation scowled before me . Despairing of finding any better source of emolu- ment ...
... seemed sealed . My re- sources were rapidly melting away ; my expendi- ture , moderate as it was , was counterbalanced by no incomings . A prison and starvation scowled before me . Despairing of finding any better source of emolu- ment ...
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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...