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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... never touch a leaf before the bunches , as I conclude them necessary for the circulation of the juices , and to keep the fruit from being hardened by the cold night air . Yours , & c . M. MARTIN . LETTER LXIX . Dr. LETTSOM to Sir M ...
... never touch a leaf before the bunches , as I conclude them necessary for the circulation of the juices , and to keep the fruit from being hardened by the cold night air . Yours , & c . M. MARTIN . LETTER LXIX . Dr. LETTSOM to Sir M ...
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... never knew one hurt by the frost . As they require no earthing up , I set a row of them last year in the piece where my Mangel Wurzel grew , on that space which is nearer the back of the hedge than VOL . II . C the plough can reach ...
... never knew one hurt by the frost . As they require no earthing up , I set a row of them last year in the piece where my Mangel Wurzel grew , on that space which is nearer the back of the hedge than VOL . II . C the plough can reach ...
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... never known the land . Had it been pos- sible for us to retain the empire you seem to lament the loss of , would our own liberties have been more secure ? and do you not think the whole world would have joined against us , rather than ...
... never known the land . Had it been pos- sible for us to retain the empire you seem to lament the loss of , would our own liberties have been more secure ? and do you not think the whole world would have joined against us , rather than ...
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... never before heard , struck me the more forcibly with its truth , that Friendship exists among the virtuous only . " God , who knows my errors , knows also how sin- cerely I wish to become worthy of your intimacy . I look up to you as a ...
... never before heard , struck me the more forcibly with its truth , that Friendship exists among the virtuous only . " God , who knows my errors , knows also how sin- cerely I wish to become worthy of your intimacy . I look up to you as a ...
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... never yet could get him by the forelock . I have usually 100 letters behind in my correspondence ; and when I attempt to extricate myself from debt , a fresh importation involves me in renewed exertions . I sincerely sympathize with ...
... never yet could get him by the forelock . I have usually 100 letters behind in my correspondence ; and when I attempt to extricate myself from debt , a fresh importation involves me in renewed exertions . I sincerely sympathize with ...
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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.