A Book about Doctors, Band 1Hurst and Blackett, 1860 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abernethy amongst apothecaries Arbuthnot attended Barrowby benevolence better Blackmore bleeding blood Bloomsbury Square bloud Bulleyn called cane carriage century Charles College of Physicians court Covent Garden cure dear death died Digby dispensarians doctor drachm drink Elizabethan era eminent physicians Faculty favour fortune Garth gentleman Gibbons guineas hand head Henry Henry VIII honour Jacobite John King knight kynge lady learned lived London Lord Majesty Mary Pratt Mayerne Mead Mead's medicine never Nutley Oxford paid patient phlebotomy physi physic physician poet poor pounds practice practitioner prescriptions present Prince profession quack Queen Radcliffe Radcliffe's Religio Medici Royal Society SAMUEL GARTH says sent setwal shillings sician sick Sir Astley Sir Kenelm Sir Richard Sir Richard Blackmore story Street Suffolk surgeon tion told took town Whig William wine writer young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 58 - Tis strange the Miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy : Is it less strange the Prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? Not for himself he sees, or hears, or eats; Artists must choose his pictures, music, meats : He buys for Topham drawings and designs; For Pembroke statues, dirty gods, and coins ; Rare monkish manuscripts for Hearne alone, And books for Mead, and butterflies for Sloane.
Seite 229 - I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came : I left no calling for this idle trade, No duty broke, no father...
Seite 65 - A moralist perchance appears; Led, Heaven knows how! to this poor sod: And he has neither eyes nor ears; Himself his world...
Seite 238 - em in again. 40 At leisure hours, in epic song he deals, Writes to the rumbling of his coach's wheels, Prescribes in haste, and seldom kills by rule, But rides triumphant between stool and stool. Well, let him go; 'tis yet too early day, « To get himself a place in farce or play. We know not by what name we should arraign him, For no one category can contain him ; A pedant, canting preacher, and a quack, Are load enough to break one ass's back : su At last grown wanton, he presum'd to write, Traduc'd...
Seite 42 - For of the most High cometh healing, And he shall receive honour of the king. The skill of the physician shall lift up his head : And in the sight of great men he shall be in admiration.
Seite 229 - The muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, To help me through this long disease, my life, To second, Arbuthnot ! thy art and care, And teach the being you preserv'd to bear.
Seite 77 - And taught the world with reason to admire. Then Criticism the Muse's handmaid prov'd, To dress her charms, and make her more belov'd: But following wits from that intention...
Seite 191 - Now you are here," said the patient, " I shall be obliged to you, Sir Richard, if you will tell me how I must live, what I may eat, and what not." " My directions as to that point," replied Sir Richard, "will be few and simple.
Seite 45 - Muse, thou know my DIGBY well, Yet read him in these lines: He doth excel In honour, courtesy, and all the parts Court can call, hers, or man could call his arts. He's prudent, valiant, just and temperate: In him all virtue is beheld in state; And he is built like some imperial room For that to dwell in, and be still at home.
Seite 232 - Not to bite us, like most of his countrymen, But to gain an honest livelihood : He hunted not after fame, Yet acquired it : Regardless of the Praise of his Friends, But most sensible of their love : ' Tho' he liv'd amongst the great, He neither learn'd nor flatter'd any vice : 236 AN INSCRIPTOR.