Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Late John Coakley Lettsom ...: With a Selection from His Correspondence, Volume 2Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1817 - Physicians |
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... learned body , ( the Medical Society of London ) " What are the diseases of great towns , and the best means of preventing them ? " I put in for the prize , little expecting success ; but so it happened that it was adjudged to me ; and ...
... learned body , ( the Medical Society of London ) " What are the diseases of great towns , and the best means of preventing them ? " I put in for the prize , little expecting success ; but so it happened that it was adjudged to me ; and ...
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... learned Author of Indian Antiquities , Lond . 1799 , 4to . The wood - cuts by Anderson are unrivalled , perhaps , for the elegance with which they are executed . ED . imaginary tour . I should have supposed the tra- veller 104 REV . J ...
... learned Author of Indian Antiquities , Lond . 1799 , 4to . The wood - cuts by Anderson are unrivalled , perhaps , for the elegance with which they are executed . ED . imaginary tour . I should have supposed the tra- veller 104 REV . J ...
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... learned and improved part of the community . The religion of a quaker , as far as I know , is as expansive as the air ; at least I entertain no parti- alities for sect . I will not brand my kind correspondent as a sturdy beggar ...
... learned and improved part of the community . The religion of a quaker , as far as I know , is as expansive as the air ; at least I entertain no parti- alities for sect . I will not brand my kind correspondent as a sturdy beggar ...
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... learned and best - informed men in Europe is our amiable King , and I think I have seen him converse with two persons at once ; but his astonishing capacity is almost equal to any thing , though inferior to the amities of his heart . As ...
... learned and best - informed men in Europe is our amiable King , and I think I have seen him converse with two persons at once ; but his astonishing capacity is almost equal to any thing , though inferior to the amities of his heart . As ...
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... learned . At pre- sent I rest contented with the approbation of some select and excellent friends . I am , Dear Sir , Your most obliged humble servant , JACOB BRYANT . Dear Sir , LETTER CXLVII . From the same . Cypenham , Dec. 22 , 1785 ...
... learned . At pre- sent I rest contented with the approbation of some select and excellent friends . I am , Dear Sir , Your most obliged humble servant , JACOB BRYANT . Dear Sir , LETTER CXLVII . From the same . Cypenham , Dec. 22 , 1785 ...
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Page 144 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 382 - My work is done ; I have nothing to do but to go to my heavenly Father !" Let us, therefore, under a firm conviction of her felicity, endeavour to follow her as she followed the Redeemer.
Page 450 - I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence ; for invention and improvement are prolific and beget more of their kind. The present progress is rapid. Many of great importance, now unthought of, will before that period be produced ; and then I might not only enjoy their advantages, but have my curiosity gratified by knowing what they are to be.
Page 443 - How pitiful, in the eye of reason and religion, is that false ambition, which desolates the world with fire and sword for the purposes of conquest and fame, when compared to the milder virtues of making our neighbours and our fellow men as happy as their frail conditions and perishable natures will permit them to be!
Page 116 - Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm, How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides, Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you From seasons such as these ? O, I have ta'en Too little care of this ! Take physic, pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, And show the heavens more just.
Page 138 - And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharged...
Page 457 - He can make the wrath of man to praise Him, and the remainder of wrath He can restrain.
Page 197 - A standard was fixed for a long pole, at 'the extremity of which was fastened a chair, on this the woman was placed, and soused three times under water till almost suffocated. At Liverpool, the standard was fixed in the court, and a bath made on purpose for ducking; but why in a prison this wanton and dangerous severity was exercised on women, and not on men, I could no where learn.
Page 527 - I have, however, inclosed thee a couple of pamphlets, proving he got it from Mr. Fitch, of Philadelphia. These pamphlets were published before I had any thing to do in the affair, and on becoming acquainted with it fully, I purchased four shares, or one tenth, of Mr.
Page 151 - Where, on his bed of wool and matted leaves, He has outslept the winter, ventures forth To frisk awhile, and bask in the warm sun, The squirrel, flippant, pert, and full of play : He sees me, and at once, swift as a bird, Ascends the neighbouring beech ; there whisks his brush, And perks his ears, and stamps, and cries aloud, With all the prettiness of feign'd alarm. And anger insignificantly fierce.