 ... the smallpox was always present, filling the churchyards with corpses, tormenting with constant fears all whom it had not yet stricken, leaving on those whose lives it spared the hideous traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which...  Biographical and Historical Sketches - Page 323by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 335 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland - Medicine - 1896 - 678 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover."* Such is the picture, drawn by an acute and fairminded thinker and observer, of the evils from which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1855 - 704 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to ' "The Commons," says Narcissus Luttrclt, "gave a great hum.'* " Le murmure qui est la marque d'applaudisscment... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1856 - 814 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Toward the end of the year 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection... | |
 | 1856 - 780 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling, at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover." Thus mothers and lovers, husbands, fathers, brothers — in fact, every member of society, young or... | |
 | 1857 - 564 pages
...traces of its power ; turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden, objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of 1694, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection spread to the palace, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 710 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of...true greatness of soul. She gave orders that every lad}' of her bedchamber, every maid of honor, nay, every menial servant, who had not had the small... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1858 - 908 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover. Towards the end of the year 1G94, this pestilence was more than usually severe. At length the infection spread to the palace, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 706 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of...orders that every lady of her bedchamber, every maid of honor, nay, every menial servant, who had not had the small pox should instantly leave Kensington House.... | |
 | Pye Henry Chavasse - 1872 - 254 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover." Small-pox never slumbereth nor sleepeth, but is always ready at any moment to pounce on any victim,... | |
 | New York (N.Y.). Board of Health - 1874 - 668 pages
...traces of its power, turning the babe into a changeling at which its mother shuddered, and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover ! " During the hundred years previous to the discovery of vaccination, smallpox is calculated to have... | |
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