Sir Benjamin Collins BrodieLongmans, Green & Company, 1898 - 255 pages |
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Page 59 - I do not hesitate to declare that, among the higher classes of society, at least four-fifths of the female patients who are commonly supposed to labor under diseases of the joints, labor under Hysteria and nothing else.
Page 86 - A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...
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Page 154 - ... after receipts and physicians : the same money which, three hundred years ago, was given for the health of the soul, is now given for the health of the body, and by the Same sort of people, women and half-witted men : in the country where they have shrines and images, quacks are despised, and monks and confessors find their account in managing the fear and hope which rule the actions of the multitude.
Page 255 - Even the professed scholar with a good library at his command will find some texts here not otherwise easily accessible ; while the humbler student of slender resources, who knows the bitterness of not being able to possess himself of the treasure stored in expensive folios or quartos long out of print, will assuredly lise up and thank Mr. Unwin." — St. James's Gazette.