The Modern Philosopher, Or Terrible Tractoration: In Four Cantos, Most Respectfully Addressed to the Royal College of Physicians, LondonFrom the Lorenzo Press of E. Bronson, 1806 - 271 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxx
... TORS , in disorders of the poor : by a friend to the in- stitution . Say , " SONS OF SOUL , " when erst th ' Omniscient plan Design'd this globe the tenement of man , What " firm , immutable , immortal laws , Inpress'd XXX INTRODUCTION .
... TORS , in disorders of the poor : by a friend to the in- stitution . Say , " SONS OF SOUL , " when erst th ' Omniscient plan Design'd this globe the tenement of man , What " firm , immutable , immortal laws , Inpress'd XXX INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina 16
... globe in company with Miss Luna , are points which , with me re- main undetermined ; but such certainly were the cheering hopes his profound speculations led us to entertain . If we are really to be blessed with another moon from this ...
... globe in company with Miss Luna , are points which , with me re- main undetermined ; but such certainly were the cheering hopes his profound speculations led us to entertain . If we are really to be blessed with another moon from this ...
Pàgina 27
... globe awry , Jews by the intervention of that renowned pacificator , Buo- naparte . We first prophecied , and many men of our cast who had a knack at prying into futurity , echoed our pre- diction , that the pious emperour of the Gauls ...
... globe awry , Jews by the intervention of that renowned pacificator , Buo- naparte . We first prophecied , and many men of our cast who had a knack at prying into futurity , echoed our pre- diction , that the pious emperour of the Gauls ...
Pàgina 28
... globe which we inhabit , without communicating mo- tion to it ; and he can ascertain , with the most accurate precision , if so he choose to do " ( by the by , this sine qua non part of the sentence is very beautiful , and not at all ...
... globe which we inhabit , without communicating mo- tion to it ; and he can ascertain , with the most accurate precision , if so he choose to do " ( by the by , this sine qua non part of the sentence is very beautiful , and not at all ...
Pàgina 53
... globe . " Whether an explosion similar to that , so beautifully de- scribed by Dr. Darwin , from the north side of the equator , would not set all right , and a new era be announced , which will be , like that of old , when " -Spring ...
... globe . " Whether an explosion similar to that , so beautifully de- scribed by Dr. Darwin , from the north side of the equator , would not set all right , and a new era be announced , which will be , like that of old , when " -Spring ...
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Pàgina 216 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Pàgina 14 - I lost all connection with external things; trains of vivid, visible Images rapidly passed through my mind, and were connected with words in such a manner as to produce perceptions perfectly novel. I existed in a world of newly connected and newly modified ideas.
Pàgina 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Pàgina 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Pàgina 14 - I walked round the room perfectly regardless of what was said to me. As I recovered my former state of mind I felt an inclination to communicate the discoveries I had made during the experiment. I endeavored to recall the ideas ; they were feeble and indistinct.
Pàgina 92 - I therefore imagined that the internal parts might be a fluid more dense, and of greater specific gravity than any of the solids we are acquainted with ; which therefore might swim in or upon that fluid. Thus the surface of the globe would be a shell, capable of being broken and disordered by the violent movements of the fluid on which it rested.
Pàgina 171 - If, in the third place, we look into the profession of physic, we shall find a most formidable body of men. The sight of them is enough to make a man serious, for we may lay it down as a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians, it grows thin of people. Sir William Temple is very much puzzled to find out a reason why the Northern Hive, as he calls it, does not send out such prodigious swarms, and overrun the world with Goths and Vandals, as it did formerly; but had that excellent author observed...
Pàgina 93 - ... centre and rise till they arrived at that region of the air which was of the same specific gravity with themselves, where they would rest; while other matter, mixed with the lighter air would descend, and the two meeting would form the shell of the first earth, leaving the upper atmosphere nearly clear.
Pàgina 118 - Chaos heard the potent word ; Through all his realms the kindling ether runs, And the mass starts into a million suns ; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first ; Bend, as they journey with projectile force, In bright ellipses their reluctant course ; Orbs wheel in orbs, round centres centres roll, And form, self-balanced, one revolving whole. — Onward they move amid their bright abode, Space without bound, the bosom of their God...
Pàgina 34 - I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant ; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence...