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 vii
... opinion in writing , stating his unfavourable view of its merits . I likewise made a number of experiments in London , with a different result from what I had seen in Vermont . In this desperate situation of the adventure , I received ...
... opinion in writing , stating his unfavourable view of its merits . I likewise made a number of experiments in London , with a different result from what I had seen in Vermont . In this desperate situation of the adventure , I received ...
Pàgina xiii
... much ostentation , as the opinion of British criticks , by an editor of a very contemptible paper at New York . This man , not contented with abusing my poems , In preparing the additional matter I have had no assist- PREFACE . xiii.
... much ostentation , as the opinion of British criticks , by an editor of a very contemptible paper at New York . This man , not contented with abusing my poems , In preparing the additional matter I have had no assist- PREFACE . xiii.
Pàgina xix
... opinion of some , has not much honoured the profession of a " scientifick critick . " This writer copies , among others , the attack of the Monthly Review , which shall next claim our attention . $ None has enjoyed , in a higher degree ...
... opinion of some , has not much honoured the profession of a " scientifick critick . " This writer copies , among others , the attack of the Monthly Review , which shall next claim our attention . $ None has enjoyed , in a higher degree ...
Pàgina xxi
... opinion that powerful antisceptick remedies had not been sufficiently tried in that putrid disorder , and these it was that he was solicitous to put to the experiment . The particulars of his death were ( as appears from Mr. Perkins's ...
... opinion that powerful antisceptick remedies had not been sufficiently tried in that putrid disorder , and these it was that he was solicitous to put to the experiment . The particulars of his death were ( as appears from Mr. Perkins's ...
Pàgina xxii
... opinion of their inutility , adduces a statement of a number of experiments , purporting to have been made by one Mr. Wilkinson , at Avondale , near Strat- ford upon Avon . Mr. Perkins has been at the trouble to ascertain the ...
... opinion of their inutility , adduces a statement of a number of experiments , purporting to have been made by one Mr. Wilkinson , at Avondale , near Strat- ford upon Avon . Mr. Perkins has been at the trouble to ascertain the ...
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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 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 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Pàgina 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Pàgina 94 - ... the turning of the new-formed globe upon its axis, and the greatest diameter of the shell would be in its equator. If. by any accident afterwards the axis should be changed...
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 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 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...