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Page 34 - A combination and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man: This was your husband.
Page 30 - And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.
Page 30 - And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have hired thee with my son's mandrakes.
Page 16 - Coleridge, and desired his patient to renew his visit on the following day, when the same ceremony was performed, and repeated every succeeding day for a fortnight, the patient gradually improving during that period, when he was dismissed as cured, no other application having been used".
Page 17 - But Jesus turned him about, and, when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole.
Page 246 - ... arrangements may be founded. (2.) The facts and phenomena of diseases on which classifications may be made are not all regarded from the same point of view. Most systems are avowedly artificial, being arranged with the view to elucidate or support a theory, or otherwise to effect a definite end. For example, by classifying diseases and recording the causes of death, the most valuable information is obtained relative to the health of the people, or of the unwholesomeness and pestilential agencies...
Page 252 - diseases of this class distinguish one country from another, — one year from another; they have formed epochs in chronology; and, as Niebuhr has shown, have influenced not only the fall of cities, such as Athens and Florence, but of empires; they decimate armies, disable fleets; they take the lives of criminals that justice has not condemned ; they redouble the dangers of crowded hospitals; they infest the habitations of the poor, and strike the...
Page 17 - And behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment. For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.
Page 32 - At the same time he presented him the cup. Socrates received it from him with great calmness, without fear or change of countenance, and, regarding the man with his usual stern aspect, he asked, ' What say you of this potion? Is it lawful to sprinkle any portion of it on the earth as a libation or not ? ' ' We only bruise,' said the man, ' as much as is barely sufficient for the purpose.
Page 67 - To take the scum that rises from the pot ; His lungs are like the bellows that respire, In every office, quickening every fire ; His nose the chimney is, whereby are vented Such fumes as with the bellows are augmented...