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 666
... colour of excufe can there be for the contempt with which we treat this part of our species ; that we fhould not put them upon the common footing of humanity ; that we should only set an infignificant fine upon the man who murders them ...
... colour of excufe can there be for the contempt with which we treat this part of our species ; that we fhould not put them upon the common footing of humanity ; that we should only set an infignificant fine upon the man who murders them ...
Page 689
... colours . First the flaming red fprung vivid forth ; the tawny orange next ; and next delicious yellow ; by whose fide fell the kind beams of all - refreshing green , then the pure blue , that fwells autumnal skies , ethereal play'd ...
... colours . First the flaming red fprung vivid forth ; the tawny orange next ; and next delicious yellow ; by whose fide fell the kind beams of all - refreshing green , then the pure blue , that fwells autumnal skies , ethereal play'd ...
Page 691
... colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r t'inforce the wrong , for fuch a worthy cause dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey . Thus man devotes his brother ; and worse than all , and moft to be deplor'd , as human nature's broadeft ...
... colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r t'inforce the wrong , for fuch a worthy cause dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey . Thus man devotes his brother ; and worse than all , and moft to be deplor'd , as human nature's broadeft ...
Page 729
... colour of our life . РОРЕ . PASSIONS are ftrong emotions of the mind , occafion- ed by the view of approaching good or evil . They are original parts of the conftitution of our nature ; and therefore to extirpate them is a mistaken aim ...
... colour of our life . РОРЕ . PASSIONS are ftrong emotions of the mind , occafion- ed by the view of approaching good or evil . They are original parts of the conftitution of our nature ; and therefore to extirpate them is a mistaken aim ...
Page 733
... colour , of every object . As it swells , it constantly juftifies to our apprehenfions the tumult which it cre- ates , by means of a thousand false arguments which it forms , and brings to its aid . Beware , therefore , and fupprefs ...
... colour , of every object . As it swells , it constantly juftifies to our apprehenfions the tumult which it cre- ates , by means of a thousand false arguments which it forms , and brings to its aid . Beware , therefore , and fupprefs ...
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