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... Mankind have been long employed in attempting to discover means for the prolongation of life . Valli , after laying down prin ciples well known , viz . that old age comes on naturally , because the calcareous phosphate or calcareous ...
... Mankind have been long employed in attempting to discover means for the prolongation of life . Valli , after laying down prin ciples well known , viz . that old age comes on naturally , because the calcareous phosphate or calcareous ...
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... Mankind , he says , hitherto have paid too little attention to the in- fluence which electricity has on the human body ; otherwise they would know that the effects produced on it by our beds , is no matter of indifference . If the ...
... Mankind , he says , hitherto have paid too little attention to the in- fluence which electricity has on the human body ; otherwise they would know that the effects produced on it by our beds , is no matter of indifference . If the ...
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... mankind are troubled with corns , a complaint that is feldom or never occafioned but by narrow and pointed shoes . The ladies , who ever improve . on the fashions of the time , to gain a little in height , lengthen out the heel , and ...
... mankind are troubled with corns , a complaint that is feldom or never occafioned but by narrow and pointed shoes . The ladies , who ever improve . on the fashions of the time , to gain a little in height , lengthen out the heel , and ...
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... mankind would be frights without its assistance . The bones of growing perfons are so cartilaginous , that they readily yield to the flightest pressure , and easily assume the shape of the mould in which they are confined . Hence it is ...
... mankind would be frights without its assistance . The bones of growing perfons are so cartilaginous , that they readily yield to the flightest pressure , and easily assume the shape of the mould in which they are confined . Hence it is ...
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... are the poets , and the hiftorians , the orators , the philoso- phers , of the fouthern world ? We may as well fearch for the sci- ences amongst the beasts of the wilderness . All the inventions , by which mankind have done honour.
... are the poets , and the hiftorians , the orators , the philoso- phers , of the fouthern world ? We may as well fearch for the sci- ences amongst the beasts of the wilderness . All the inventions , by which mankind have done honour.
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Page 86 - Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate on the dust, And Rome again is free...
Page 255 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Page 79 - Sir Joshua Reynolds was, on very many accounts, one of the most memorable men of his time. He was the first Englishman who added the praise of the elegant arts to the other glories of his country. In taste, in grace, in facility, in happy invention, and in the richness and harmony of colouring, he was equal to the great masters of the renowned ages.
Page 223 - No, sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 129 - A person who is addicted to play or gaming, though he took but little delight in it at first, by...
Page 82 - That tongue which set the table on a roar, And charm'd the public ear, is heard no more ! Clos'd are those eyes, the harbingers of wit Which...
Page 131 - ... it is for us to gain habits of virtue in this life, if we would enjoy the pleasures of the next.
Page 72 - He was certainly not fitted for the general commerce of the world, or for the business of active life. The comprehensive speculations with which he had been occupied from his youth, and the variety of materials which his own invention...
Page 131 - ... and virtue, if we would be able to taste that knowledge and perfection, which are to make us happy in the next. The seeds of those spiritual joys and raptures, which are to rise up and flourish in the soul to all eternity, must be planted in her during this her present state of probation. In short, heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but as the natural effect of a religious life.
Page 80 - His talents of every kind, powerful from nature, and not meanly cultivated by letters, his social virtues in all the relations, and all the habitudes of life, rendered him the centre of a very great and unparalleled variety of agreeable societies, which will be dissipated by his death. He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy, too much innocence to provoke any enmity. The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere, general, and unmixed sorrow.