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... Courses of treatment safe for un- profes 'ional persons to use, are indicated, and no others. Bandaging and treating fractt js and dislocations are described and illustrated. Much attention is given to Hygiene. FOOD is treated of in its ...
... Courses of treatment safe for un- profes 'ional persons to use, are indicated, and no others. Bandaging and treating fractt js and dislocations are described and illustrated. Much attention is given to Hygiene. FOOD is treated of in its ...
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... course Of gangrene errour , by convincing force ; A stone acute , fit to divide and square ; A squared stone became Christ's building rare . A Peter's living , lively stone ( so rear'd ) As ' live , was Hartford's life ; dead , death is ...
... course Of gangrene errour , by convincing force ; A stone acute , fit to divide and square ; A squared stone became Christ's building rare . A Peter's living , lively stone ( so rear'd ) As ' live , was Hartford's life ; dead , death is ...
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... course kept pace with similar ones in the mother country ; but the differ- ence between the America of 1750 and the America of 1650 was not merely the difference between Georgian England and Cromwell's Commonwealth : it was some- thing ...
... course kept pace with similar ones in the mother country ; but the differ- ence between the America of 1750 and the America of 1650 was not merely the difference between Georgian England and Cromwell's Commonwealth : it was some- thing ...
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... soul with chilling fear- Do planets in their orbits fly ? And is the earth indeed a sphere ? " Let planets still their course pursue , And comets to the center run ; In him , my faithful friend , I view The PHILIP FRENEAU . 5.
... soul with chilling fear- Do planets in their orbits fly ? And is the earth indeed a sphere ? " Let planets still their course pursue , And comets to the center run ; In him , my faithful friend , I view The PHILIP FRENEAU . 5.
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... course , Polante . E'en in thy native regions , how I blush To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush ! On Hudson's banks , while men of Belgic spawn Insult and eat thee by the name Suppawn . All spurious appellations , void of truth ...
... course , Polante . E'en in thy native regions , how I blush To hear the Pennsylvanians call thee Mush ! On Hudson's banks , while men of Belgic spawn Insult and eat thee by the name Suppawn . All spurious appellations , void of truth ...
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Page 117 - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty ; and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 154 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Page 256 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "T is some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door Only this and nothing more.
Page 76 - There was a silence for a little while, when an old man replied, in a thin, piping voice, "Nicholas Vedder! why, he is dead and gone these eighteen years! There was a wooden tombstone in the churchyard that used to tell all about him, but that's rotten and gone too.
Page 55 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 260 - ... expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now Burned into my bosom's core ; This and more I sat divining, With my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining That the lamplight gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining With the lamplight gloating o'er She shall press, ah, nevermore I Then methought the air grew denser, Perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls Tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch...
Page 121 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form; yet, on my heart Deeply has sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Page 116 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...
Page 74 - He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe ; but even this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a sceptre, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
Page 59 - He was chubby and plump ; a right jolly old elf; And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself. A wink of his eye, and a twist of his head, Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread. He spoke not a word but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings ; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle, And away they all flew like the down of a thistle , But I heard him exclaim,...