Medical Extracts: On the Nature of Health, with Practical Observations and the Laws of the Nervous and Fibrous Systems by a Friend to Improvements, Volume 41797 |
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Page 621
... SAME TIME WEAKENS NERVES , SECT . LXXX . - · GRIEF , - SECT . LXXXI . SURPRISE , - PAGE 764 769 770 783 THE 821 824 825 SECT . LXXXII . ABSENCE , - 831 SECT . LXXXIII . PRETENDED ANGER , SECT . LXXXIV , RESTRAINT , - 833 836 SECT ...
... SAME TIME WEAKENS NERVES , SECT . LXXX . - · GRIEF , - SECT . LXXXI . SURPRISE , - PAGE 764 769 770 783 THE 821 824 825 SECT . LXXXII . ABSENCE , - 831 SECT . LXXXIII . PRETENDED ANGER , SECT . LXXXIV , RESTRAINT , - 833 836 SECT ...
Page 821
... SAME TIME WEAKENS THE NERVES . HAVING treated of direct nervous ftimuli , and their effect in strengthening the powers of the understanding , when in due quantity , and their baneful effect when in excess , and having fhewn that the ...
... SAME TIME WEAKENS THE NERVES . HAVING treated of direct nervous ftimuli , and their effect in strengthening the powers of the understanding , when in due quantity , and their baneful effect when in excess , and having fhewn that the ...
Page 845
... that heightens the description ; which is ftill more forcibly exhibited in the fpectacle contrived by the Car- thaginian general , and in his harangue . VOL . IV . 50 SECT . SECT . LXXXVII . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . On 845.
... that heightens the description ; which is ftill more forcibly exhibited in the fpectacle contrived by the Car- thaginian general , and in his harangue . VOL . IV . 50 SECT . SECT . LXXXVII . THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . On 845.
Page 846
... SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . On the antithefis often depends much of the beauty and clearness of hiftory . We will take an example from TACITUS . The night in bath camps was bufy and unquiet . The BARBARIANS paffed their time in jollity and ...
... SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED . On the antithefis often depends much of the beauty and clearness of hiftory . We will take an example from TACITUS . The night in bath camps was bufy and unquiet . The BARBARIANS paffed their time in jollity and ...
Page 874
... same sentiment . The fyftem I mean to propose , fays this elegant writer , is that of a friend of mine , who was a true lover of knowledge . He found little fatis- faction in the philofophy of colleges and schools , parti- cularly in ...
... same sentiment . The fyftem I mean to propose , fays this elegant writer , is that of a friend of mine , who was a true lover of knowledge . He found little fatis- faction in the philofophy of colleges and schools , parti- cularly in ...
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