Life of Dr. John Reid, Late Chandos Professor of Anatomy and Medicine in the University of St. Andrews |
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... message is true , ' All the daugh- ters of music shall be brought low . ' The last words of Mr. Honest were , Grace reigns ! So he left the world . " Pilgrim's Progress . PREFACE . One THERE are so many ways of writing.
... message is true , ' All the daugh- ters of music shall be brought low . ' The last words of Mr. Honest were , Grace reigns ! So he left the world . " Pilgrim's Progress . PREFACE . One THERE are so many ways of writing.
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George Wilson. PREFACE . One THERE are so many ways of writing Biography , that it is vain to inquire which is the best . canon , however , may be safely insisted on , namely , that the record of a man's career should corre- spond in ...
George Wilson. PREFACE . One THERE are so many ways of writing Biography , that it is vain to inquire which is the best . canon , however , may be safely insisted on , namely , that the record of a man's career should corre- spond in ...
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... write for all readers , that four biographical sketches or memoirs of Dr. Reid have already appeared in medical periodicals , to which purely medical readers may be referred . The earliest of those memoirs was contributed by Professor ...
... write for all readers , that four biographical sketches or memoirs of Dr. Reid have already appeared in medical periodicals , to which purely medical readers may be referred . The earliest of those memoirs was contributed by Professor ...
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... writing another Life , which , in the end , proved a much more tedious undertaking than I expected it to be ; and that I have given my first available leisure to the completion of this volume . 24 , BROWN SQUARE , Edinburgh , March 1852 ...
... writing another Life , which , in the end , proved a much more tedious undertaking than I expected it to be ; and that I have given my first available leisure to the completion of this volume . 24 , BROWN SQUARE , Edinburgh , March 1852 ...
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... writer of books , but he retained almost to the last a love for a book merely as a book , and , next to his relatives and friends , he named his library as the object from which it cost him the sorest pang to part . His filial obedience ...
... writer of books , but he retained almost to the last a love for a book merely as a book , and , next to his relatives and friends , he named his library as the object from which it cost him the sorest pang to part . His filial obedience ...
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Page 155 - The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Page 158 - for Aix is in sight!" "How they'll greet us!" — and all in a moment his roan Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 174 - For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities ; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Page 180 - Action is transitory — a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle — this way or that — 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed : Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
Page 114 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked : that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 274 - So if he has declared that you shall hereafter stand before his judgment seat to give an account of the deeds done in the body...
Page 98 - I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body ; is it therefore not of the body ? If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing ? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling ? But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased Him. And if they were all one member, where were the body ? But now are they many members, yet but one body. And the eye cannot say unto the hand,...
Page 65 - ... of pretension or notion of his own importance, or so little solicitous to distinguish himself, or so sincerely willing to give place to every one else. Even upon subjects which he had thoroughly studied, he was never in the least impatient to speak, and...
Page 235 - It is better to sit down in a modest ignorance, and rest contented with the natural blessing of our own reasons, than buy the uncertain knowledge of this life with sweat and vexation, which Death gives every fool gratis, and is an accessary of our glorification.
Page 158 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.