Miscellaneous EssaysCarey & Hart, 1830 - 472 Seiten |
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... considering the matter merely in a commer- cial point of light , the shock caused by the fever , has been felt far to the south and west of this State . CHAPTER II . Symptoms - a slight Sketch of the ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 15.
... considering the matter merely in a commer- cial point of light , the shock caused by the fever , has been felt far to the south and west of this State . CHAPTER II . Symptoms - a slight Sketch of the ACCOUNT OF THE FEVER OF 1793 . 15.
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... caused by the death of a faithful servant . This kind of conduct produced scenes of distress and misery , of which parallels are rarely to be met with , and which nothing could palliate , but the extraordinary public panic , and the ...
... caused by the death of a faithful servant . This kind of conduct produced scenes of distress and misery , of which parallels are rarely to be met with , and which nothing could palliate , but the extraordinary public panic , and the ...
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... cause ! But why should they be regret- ted ? never could they have fallen more gloriously . Foremost in this noble groupe stands Joseph Inskeep , a most excellent man in all the social relations of citizen , brother , husband , and ...
... cause ! But why should they be regret- ted ? never could they have fallen more gloriously . Foremost in this noble groupe stands Joseph Inskeep , a most excellent man in all the social relations of citizen , brother , husband , and ...
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... cause of humanity . The other , William Sansom , was likewise , in the execution of his dangerous office , seized with the disorder , and on the brink of the grave , but was so fortunate as to reco- ver . The mortality increased daily ...
... cause of humanity . The other , William Sansom , was likewise , in the execution of his dangerous office , seized with the disorder , and on the brink of the grave , but was so fortunate as to reco- ver . The mortality increased daily ...
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... caused attendance on the sick to be regarded as little less than a certain sacrifice . Uninfluenced by any reflec- tions of this kind , without any possible inducement but the pu- rest motives of humanity , they magnanimously offered ...
... caused attendance on the sick to be regarded as little less than a certain sacrifice . Uninfluenced by any reflec- tions of this kind , without any possible inducement but the pu- rest motives of humanity , they magnanimously offered ...
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Seite 420 - Ecstasy ! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music : it is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word ; which madness Would gambol from.
Seite 420 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Seite 424 - Why would'st thou be a breeder of sinners ? I am myself indifferent honest ; but yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better, my mother had not borne me...
Seite 419 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Seite 419 - ... this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.
Seite 420 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 423 - Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, — he comes before me.
Seite 419 - I have of late — but wherefore I know not — lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises ; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory...
Seite 428 - Even for an egg-shell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd...
Seite 426 - Hold, hold, my heart, And you, my sinews, grow not instant old, But bear me stiffly up ! Remember thee? Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.