Memorial of Alonzo Benjamin Palmer, M.D., LL. D.: Born, October 6, 1815, Died December 23, 1887Printed at the Riverside Press, 1890 - 196 pages |
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... history and celebrated in song . The sea views were fine as we approached Aberdeen . Had much difficulty in getting quarters , the town is so full , although it is a city of 80,000 inhabitants . The opening meet- ing was 66 MEMORIAL .
... history and celebrated in song . The sea views were fine as we approached Aberdeen . Had much difficulty in getting quarters , the town is so full , although it is a city of 80,000 inhabitants . The opening meet- ing was 66 MEMORIAL .
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... opening meet- ing was immense , about three thousand being present . The retiring President , Professor Owen , yielded the chair to his successor in a brief speech , and Prince Albert proceeded to deliver an opening address . It was an ...
... opening meet- ing was immense , about three thousand being present . The retiring President , Professor Owen , yielded the chair to his successor in a brief speech , and Prince Albert proceeded to deliver an opening address . It was an ...
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... opening meeting of the " British Associ- ation for the Advancement of Social Science . " The President , Lord Shaftesbury , delivered the address . He is comparatively a young man , and seems very zealous for the advancement and im ...
... opening meeting of the " British Associ- ation for the Advancement of Social Science . " The President , Lord Shaftesbury , delivered the address . He is comparatively a young man , and seems very zealous for the advancement and im ...
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... opening of the term to fill the chair he had left , and he was accordingly requested to continue his old lec- tures on Materia Medica while giving the new course . Work was something he never shrank from , ALONZO BENJAMIN PALMER . 127.
... opening of the term to fill the chair he had left , and he was accordingly requested to continue his old lec- tures on Materia Medica while giving the new course . Work was something he never shrank from , ALONZO BENJAMIN PALMER . 127.
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... opening of the Med- ical College and the advent of a group of agree- able professors from abroad made an excuse each summer for a round of little festivities , evening companies , tea - parties , mountain climbings , row- ing parties on ...
... opening of the Med- ical College and the advent of a group of agree- able professors from abroad made an excuse each summer for a round of little festivities , evening companies , tea - parties , mountain climbings , row- ing parties on ...
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Page 13 - A made a finer end, and went away, an it had been any christom child ; 'a parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide : for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers...
Page 31 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 13 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Page 196 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.
Page 69 - Science are therefore at once the most humble and the loftiest which man can undertake. He only does what every little child does from its first awakening into life, and must do every moment of its existence ; and yet he aims at the gradual approximation to divine truth itself. If, then, there exists no difference between the work of the man of Science and that of the merest child, what constitutes the distinction ? Merely the conscious self-determination. The child observes what accident brings...
Page 10 - NY, and when it became the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the Western District of New York in 1813 he was appointed as its president.
Page 69 - Association, not a secret confraternity of men jealously guarding the mysteries of their profession, but inviting the uninitiated, the public at large, to join them, having as one of its objects to break down those imaginary and hurtful barriers which exist between men of science and so-called men of practice — I felt that I could, from the peculiar position in which Providence has placed me in this country, appear as the representative of that large public, which profits by and admires your exertions,...
Page 68 - Remembering that this Association is a popular Association, not a secret confraternity of men jealously guarding the mysteries of their profession, but inviting the uninitiated, the public at large, to join them, having as one of its objects to break down those imaginary and hurtful barriers which exist between men of science and so-called men of practice...
Page 69 - Science, in its most general and comprehensive acceptation, means the knowledge of what I know, the consciousness of human knowledge. Hence, to know is the object of all Science; and all special knowledge, if brought to our consciousness in its separate distinctiveness from, and yet in its recognized relation to the totality of our knowledge, is scientific knowledge.
Page 70 - ... which the Almighty has implanted in them, that we can hope to grapple with the boundlessness of His creation, and with the laws which govern both mind and matter. The operation of Science then has been, systematically to divide human knowledge, and raise, as it were, the separate groups of subjects for scientific consideration, into different and distinct sciences.