Transactions of the Pharmaceutical Meetings

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J. Churchill, 1877

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Page 306 - The wages of sin is death : if the wages of Virtue be dust, Would she have heart to endure for the life of the worm and the fly ? She desires no isles of the blest, no quiet seats of the just, To rest in a golden grove, or to bask in a summer sky : Give her the wages of going on, and not to die.
Page 302 - Ma fille, tendre objet de mes dernières peines, Songe au moins, songe au sang qui coule dans tes veines : C'est le sang de vingt rois , tous chrétiens comme moi ; C'est le sang des héros défenseurs de ma loi ; C'est le sang des martyrs....
Page 302 - C'est le sang des héros, défenseurs de ma loi ; C'est le sang des martyrs. O fille encor trop chère ! Connais-tu ton destin ? Sais-tu quelle est ta mère ? Sais-tu bien qu'à l'instant que son flanc mit au jour Ce triste et dernier fruit d'un malheureux amour, Je la vis massacrer par la main forcenée, Par la main des brigands à qui tu t'es donnée ? Tes frères, ces martyrs égorgés à mes yeux, T'ouvrent leurs bras sanglants tendus du haut des cieux.
Page 338 - We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Page 235 - ... and with the name and address of the seller of the poison ; and it shall be unlawful to sell any poison of those which are in the first part of Schedule (A) to this Act, or may hereafter be added thereto under...
Page 246 - A large number of other derivatives from opianic acid have also been obtained ; some of these were previously known, and have been re-investigated for the purpose of establishing their " structural " relations to one another and to bodies well known as derived from other sources, but not hitherto recognized as being in any way connected with any of the natural alkaloids. (For the details of these experiments the reader is referred to the Ghem.
Page 38 - ... of repulsion. It is true the upper surface of our atmosphere must present a very cold front, and this might suffer repulsion by the sun ; but I have said enough to show how utterly in the dark we are as to the cosmical bearings of this action of radiation, and further speculation would be but waste of time. It may be of interest to compare these experimental results with a calculation made in 1873, before any knowledge of these facts had been made public. Professor Clerk Maxwell, in his ' Electricity...
Page 17 - ... sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended fraudulently to increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its inferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article or drug, to the effect that the same is mixed, 9.
Page 11 - But light, in some respects the highest of the powers of nature, has not been hitherto found capable of direct conversion into motion, and such an exception cannot but be regarded as a singular anomaly. This anomaly the researches which I am about to bring before you have now removed ; and, like the other forms of force, light is found to be capable of direct conversion into motion, and of being — like heat, electricity, magnetism, sound, gravitation, and chemical action — most delicately and...
Page 306 - GLORY of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, Paid with a voice flying by to be lost on an endless sea — Glory of Virtue, to fight, to struggle, to right the wrong — Nay, but" she aim'd not at glory, no lover of glory she : Give her the glory of going on, and still to be.

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