Verba consilii; or, Hints to parents who intend to bring up their sons to the medical profession

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John Churchill, 1837 - 101 pages
 

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Page 82 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar; Ah! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Page 21 - What dire necessities on every hand Our art, our strength, our fortitude require ! Of foes intestine what a numerous band Against this little throb of life conspire! Yet science can elude their fatal ire Awhile, and turn aside death's levell'd dart, Sooth the sharp pang, allay the fever's fire, And brace the nerves once more, and cheer the heart, And yet a few soft nights and balmy days impart.
Page 68 - Man fadeth away suddenly like the grass; in the morning it is green and groweth, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.
Page 91 - Right, as relates to actions, is that principle of equality which teaches man to do to others as he would that others should do to him. Those acts are naturally, politically and morally right, which may be done• by all without injury to any.
Page 24 - The seeds of happiness and powers of thought ; Then jarring appetites forego their strife, A strife by ignorance to madness wrought. Pleasure by savage man is dearly bought With fell revenge, lust that defies control, With gluttony and death. The mind untaught Is a dark waste, where fiends and tempests howl ; As Phoebus to the world, is science to the soul.
Page 84 - ... wondering eyes. Be taught, vain man, how fleeting all thy joys, Thy boasted grandeur, and thy glittering store; Death comes and all thy fancied bliss destroys, Quick as a dream it fades, and is no more. And, sons of sorrow ! though the threatening storm Of angry Fortune overhang awhile, Let not her frowns your inward peace deform ; Soon happier days in happier climes shall smile.
Page 39 - ... fell in the attack of a pass in the mountains, at the head of his regiment, the admiration of the whole army ; and there is nothing to be regretted in his death, excepting the untimely moment at which it has afflicted his family *, and has deprived the public of the services of an officer who would have been an ornament to his profession, and an honour to his country. " It may at the moment increase the regret of those who lose a near and dear relation to learn that he deserved and enjoyed the...
Page 51 - As the great object of the student in visiting London is to consult the book of nature...

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