Memoir of John Aikin: M. D.A. Small, 1824 - 487 pages |
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Page 402 - rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. A modest writer in Natural History or Natural Philosophy might adopt for his motto the reply of a soothsayer in
Page 312 - of many hundreds of cures performed by his majesty's touch alone, without any assistance of chirurgery ; and those, many of them, such as had tired out the endeavours of able chirurgeons before they came thither. It were endless to recite what I myself have seen, and what I have received acknowledgments of, by
Page 231 - Chance, Direction which thou canst not see ; All Discord, Harmony not understood ; All partial Evil, universal Good. In this
Page 215 - as vigorous as ever in the faculties of my soul, excepting only my memory, which is not impaired to any great degree; and if I lose not more of it, I have no great reason to complain. What judgment
Page 215 - 1 had, increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or to reject.
Page 232 - Oh while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail,
Page 408 - As every blast would heave him from his seat; Though thousand fairer trees the field supplies That rich in youthful verdure round him rise ; Fix'd in his ancient state he yields to none, And wears the honours of the grove alone. The
Page 231 - To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he hounds, connects, and equals all:
Page 469 - I am still living.' Mr. — observed,' that he would always live.' 'Yes, I believe I shall; we shall meet again in another and a better world.' He said this with great animation, laying hold of Mr. 's hand in both his own. After evening prayers, when his grand-children were brought to his
Page 308 - and experience to commence a consummate knave. He whose first emotion on the view of an excellent production, is to undervalue it, will never have one of his own to show. The conscious merit of true ability, never goes further than