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... College Tutor , in order to avoid the risk of a pro- fusion of generosity on the part of any too liberal young Gownsman ; but if he had a manner of his own of doing things , his peculiarities were of the most inoffensive kind , whilst ...
... College Tutor , in order to avoid the risk of a pro- fusion of generosity on the part of any too liberal young Gownsman ; but if he had a manner of his own of doing things , his peculiarities were of the most inoffensive kind , whilst ...
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Clement Carlyon. the prisoner in its cage was conveyed to his rooms in King's College . There the bearer met with a very kind reception , but was desired to carry back the bird with him . " I cannot , " said the Doctor , " take so good ...
Clement Carlyon. the prisoner in its cage was conveyed to his rooms in King's College . There the bearer met with a very kind reception , but was desired to carry back the bird with him . " I cannot , " said the Doctor , " take so good ...
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... college life . Amongst other singularities of opinion , Dr. Glynn would maintain that gout was not an hereditary disease ; and he once took occasion to mark this with peculiar emphasis , when I consulted him in my first attack , then in ...
... college life . Amongst other singularities of opinion , Dr. Glynn would maintain that gout was not an hereditary disease ; and he once took occasion to mark this with peculiar emphasis , when I consulted him in my first attack , then in ...
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... College life ; and without denying that much good may have been effected in this particular instance by Dr. Glynn's advice , it is but too certain that , at the period in question , and long afterwards , it was by no means unusual for ...
... College life ; and without denying that much good may have been effected in this particular instance by Dr. Glynn's advice , it is but too certain that , at the period in question , and long afterwards , it was by no means unusual for ...
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... College , he might be supposed to have issued forth from the narrow portal of a monastery , bent on passing the live - long day in works of charity and mercy . That , in either case , there was a well - replenished board to which the ...
... College , he might be supposed to have issued forth from the narrow portal of a monastery , bent on passing the live - long day in works of charity and mercy . That , in either case , there was a well - replenished board to which the ...
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Abernethy Abernethy's acquainted admitted alluded anatomy anecdote animal appear attention believe better Bishop blood Bodmin body brain character Christ Christian circumstances Clovenford Coleridge College comparative anatomy Cornaro Cornwall death digestion dinner disease doubt earth equally evidence fact faculties feelings fish fluid functions Glynn gout head heart heaven History of Cornwall honour hour human Hunter immortality interesting John Hunter judge judgment knowledge late learned lectures likewise living Lord manner Materialists means ment merely mind moral nature never Norway observation occasion opinions organs Paradise Lost patient perceive persons phrenology physician present principle Prodicus profession professional pupils Queen Dowager reason recollection remarks respect resurrection scarcely Scott Scottish Border Scripture Sir Tristram Sir Walter Scott sleep soul spirit subtil suppose surgeon tell thou thought tion Tom Payne truth tumour Tweed vertebral column Wadebridge whilst whole words Ysonde
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Página 65 - But original déficience cannot be supplied. The want of human interest is always felt. Paradise Lost is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. Its perusal is a duty rather than a pleasure. We read Milton for
Página 202 - in the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken. " But they will maintain the state of the world, and all their desire is in the work of their
Página 80 - reached Abbotsford on the 19th. About half-past one, PM on the 21st of September, Sir Walter breathed his last, in the presence of all his children. It was a beautiful day, so warm, that every window was wide open—and so perfectly still, that the sound of all others
Página 67 - Milton knew human nature only in the gross, and had never studied the shades of character, nor the combinations of concurring, or the perplexity of contending, passions. He had read much, and knew what books could teach ; but had mingled little in the world, and was deficient in the knowledge which experience must confer.
Página 27 - Write ; from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord ; even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Página 202 - cannot a city be inhabited ; and they shall not dwell where they will, nor go up and down ; "They shall not be sought for in public counsel, nor sit high in the congregation ; they shall not sit in the judges' seat, nor understand the sentence of judgment; they cannot declare justice and judgment; and they shall not be found where parables are spoken.
Página 70 - Be not ye afraid of them ; remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'
Página 80 - most delicious to his ear, the gentle ripple of the Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed and closed his eyes.
Página 64 - I am now to examine Paradise Lost ; a poem which, considered with respect to design, may claim the first place ; and, with respect to performance, the second, among the productions of the human mind.
Página 66 - sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven,