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 páginas |
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... principles , they do not appear so contemptible as this author affects to represent them . " Anti Jacobin Review for April , 1802 , p . 399 . composed the London edition of the following performance . The xii PREFACE .
... principles , they do not appear so contemptible as this author affects to represent them . " Anti Jacobin Review for April , 1802 , p . 399 . composed the London edition of the following performance . The xii PREFACE .
Página xiii
... performance . The verse , with the exception of about half a dozen stanzas , is mine , with no other assistance but such as conversation with those friends afforded me by occasionally supplying hints and topicks , which I afterwards ...
... performance . The verse , with the exception of about half a dozen stanzas , is mine , with no other assistance but such as conversation with those friends afforded me by occasionally supplying hints and topicks , which I afterwards ...
Página xxv
... performance , and avoid all " servile trick ” and “ imitative knack " of ordinary dealers in rhyme . He would rather in- troduce indefensible eccentricities , and run the hazard of the lash of the critick , than to " threat his reader ...
... performance , and avoid all " servile trick ” and “ imitative knack " of ordinary dealers in rhyme . He would rather in- troduce indefensible eccentricities , and run the hazard of the lash of the critick , than to " threat his reader ...
Página xxvii
... performance , are intended to be stigmatized , others are introduced merely for the purpose of laughing with , but not laughing at , the inventors . The experiments of Aldini , as well as those of certain learned and respectable ...
... performance , are intended to be stigmatized , others are introduced merely for the purpose of laughing with , but not laughing at , the inventors . The experiments of Aldini , as well as those of certain learned and respectable ...
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... performance . I will , however , gra- tify your curiosity so far as to glance cursorily at a few of the leading topicks therein discussed and illustrated , and slightly mention some of the immense advantages which will be the result of ...
... performance . I will , however , gra- tify your curiosity so far as to glance cursorily at a few of the leading topicks therein discussed and illustrated , and slightly mention some of the immense advantages which will be the result of ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 259 - A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
Página 38 - The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...