A Physician's Vacation, Or, A Summer in EuropeTicknor & Fields, 1856 - 564 páginas |
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Página 48 - No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour, nor making of stuffs a thousand yards a minute, will make us one whit stronger, happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast.
Página 48 - A fool always wants to shorten space and time : a wise man wants to lengthen both. A fool wants to kill space and kill time : a wise man, first to gain them, then to animate them. Your railroad, when you come to understand it, is only a device for making the world smaller : and as for being able to talk from place to place, that is, indeed, well and convenient ; but suppose you have, originally, nothing to say.* We shall be obliged at last to confess, what we should long ago have known, that the...
Página 62 - ... by the whole people ; and, as Aristotle expressly says, every free citizen was from youth upwards a critic of Art. Sophocles wrote for all Athens, and by all Athens was applauded. The theatre was open to all free citizens. Phidias and Praxiteles, Scopas and Myron, wrought their marvels in brass and marble, as expressions of a national faith, and the delights of a national mind.
Página 559 - Reader, Carthagena was of the mind that unto those three things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this fourth, to find a book printed without Erratas [«> ]. It seems the hands of Briareus and the Eyes of Argus will not prevent them.
Página 360 - I did hear him groan; Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him and write his speeches in their books, Alas! it cried, "Give me some drink, Titinius...
Página 200 - How it was preserved during the years that have elapsed since such stupendous beings as the mammoth and mastodon walked the earth with their brethren, is a question which has...
Página 529 - Professor S.'s in-door, or home professional life. He goes through this great labour quietly and methodically, and with as gentle, kind, cheerful spirit as man ever manifested. The moral character of the daily service in disease is quite as striking as is the professional The moral presides over the whole, and renders it one of the most interesting matters for observation that can occur. I have been utterly surprised at its executive patience, its efficient activity. Here are the poor and the rich...
Página 9 - Twere now to be most happy, for I fear My soul hath her content so absolute That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
Página 75 - HM ship Express on the steamer Prometheus, for which an ample apology was made. In August, 1852, England was thrown into intense excitement, in consequence of a letter written by Mr. Webster on the subject of the new ground taken by Great Britain in reference to the fisheries. This led to several interviews between Mr. Lawrence and Lord Malmesbury, the result of which was such a modification of the instructions to the vessels on the station as prevented any collision.
Página 123 - I carried from thee, dear ; and my true lip Hath virgin'd it e'er since. — You gods ! I prate, And the most noble mother of the world Leave unsaluted : sink, my knee, i' the earth ; Of thy deep duty more impression show Than that of common sons.