Medical Inquiries and Observations, Volumen2

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J. Conrad & Company, 1805
 

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Página 4 - themselves; which show the works of the law " written in their hearts, their consciences also " bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean " while accusing, or else excusing another*." The words of Cicero are as follow :
Página 39 - Neither circumcision availeth " any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. From " henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body, " the marks of our Lord Jesus.
Página 439 - hymns began to be sung, and when the lid of the coffin was about to be nailed on. The thought that she was to be buried alive was the first which gave activity to her mind, and enabled it to operate on her corporeal frame.
Página 10 - and justly. He likewise could say mass, " for he was of a disposition to do, as well as to " know all things. His body was perfectly well " suited to his mind. He was light, nimble, and " dexterous, and fit for all exercises. He could " ride well, and in dancing, wrestling, and
Página 15 - often, at the table of a friend, fill her pockets secretly with bread. As a proof that her judgment was not affected by this defect in her moral faculty, she would both confess and lament her crime, when detected in it.
Página 11 - to nature, honour, religion, and society, the " truth of which he himself evinced with his latest " breath; for he died in the flower of his age, in " a common brothel, perfectly corrupted by his " debaucheries, and expired with the glass in his " hand, cursing and denying God*.
Página 9 - of so vast and ready a comprehension, that he " immediately made himself master of whatever " he attempted; and of so prodigious a memory, " that he never forgot what he once learned. He " possessed all parts of philosophy, and the
Página 10 - but also all the different jargons, or " modern dialects. He accented and pronounced " them so naturally, and so perfectly imitated the *' gestures and manners both of the several nations " of Europe, and the particular provinces of "France, that he might have been taken for a " native of all, or any of these countries : and this " quality he applied to counterfeit all sorts of
Página 378 - III. Life is the effect of certain stimuli acting upon the sensibility and excitability which are extended, in different degrees, over every external and internal part of the body. These stimuli are as necessary to its existence, as air is to flame. Animal life is truly (to use the words of Dr. Brown) " a forced state.

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