Medical Instructions Towards the Prevention and Cure of Chronic Diseases Peculiar to Women ...: For the Use of Those Affected by Such Diseases, as Well as the Medical Reader : to which are Added, Prescriptions, Or Efficacious Forms of Medicine in English, Adapted to Each Disease, 1. köide

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R. Baldwin ... Murray ... and Egerton, 1787 - 2 pages

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Page 269 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 21 - Go, from the creatures thy instructions take; learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; learn from the beasts the physic of the field; thy arts of building from the bee receive ; learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave ; learn of the little nautilus to sail, spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale.
Page 377 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 364 - Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite: Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleased with this bauble still, as that before; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
Page 378 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 270 - Ere long they come, where that same wicked wight His dwelling has, low in an hollow cave, Far underneath a craggy cliff ypight...
Page 271 - All wallow'd in his own yet lukewarm blood, That from his wound yet welled fresh, alas ; In which a rusty knife fast fixed stood, And made an open passage for the gushing flood.
Page 21 - Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; " Learn of the little Nautilus to fail, " Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving...
Page 270 - There held in holy paffion ftill, Forget thyfelf to marble, till With a fad leaden downward caft Thou fix them on the earth as faft, And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare...
Page 278 - Mufic the fierceft grief can charm, And fate's fevereft rage difarm : Mufic can foften pain to eafe, And make defpair and madnefs pleafe : Our joys below it can improve, And antedate the blifs above. This the divine Cecilia found, And to her maker's praife confin'd the found. When the full organ joins the tuneful quire, Th...

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