The British Journal of Homoeopathy, Volume 20

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John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell
Maclachlan, Stewart, & Company, 1862 - Homeopathy
 

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Page 361 - For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die : but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them.
Page 332 - Again, the mathematical postulate that things which are equal to the same are equal to one another, is similar to the form of the syllogism in logic, which unites things agreeing in the middle term.
Page 423 - That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Page 461 - ... we can exercise over the operations of our minds; the power, when a perception is present to our senses or a conception to our intellects, of attending to a part only of that perception or conception, instead of the whole. But we cannot conceive a line without breadth; we can form no mental picture of such a line: all the lines which we have in our minds are lines possessing breadth.
Page 550 - Replace the patient on the face, raising and supporting the chest well on a folded coat or other article of dress.
Page 358 - I shall be much obliged to you if you will inform me whether you examined the patient referred to in our letter in company with Dr.
Page 294 - Glendower. I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur. Why, so can I or so can any man ; But will they come when you do call for them ? Glendower.
Page 478 - ... condition of this stage is when all these forces are brought under one general force named Nature. In the Positive stage, the mind, convinced of the futility of all inquiry into causes and essences, applies itself to the observation and classification of laws which regulate effects : that is to say, the invariable relations of succession and similitude which all things bear to each other. The highest condition of this stage would be, to be able to represent all phenomena as the various particulars...
Page 478 - In the metaphysical stage, which is only a modification of the former, but which is important as a transitional stage, the supernatural agents give place to abstract forces, personified abstractions supposed to inhere in the various substances, and capable themselves of engendering phenomena. The highest condition of this stage is when all these forces are brought under one general force, named Nature.
Page 87 - Everything promises, that before long, a law of true harmony will be formed out of the discordant materials which surround us ; and if we, your predecessors, have failed, to you, I trust, will belong the honour of building up a system of Medicine which, from its consistency, simplicity, and truth, may at the same time, attract the confidence of the public, and command the respect of the scientific world.

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