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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... tion , and to make a career for himself outside the narrower limits of his home . His father was a serious , thoughtful , and religious man , and the long days spent alone with him in walks , and rides , and quiet talks may have done ...
... tion , and to make a career for himself outside the narrower limits of his home . His father was a serious , thoughtful , and religious man , and the long days spent alone with him in walks , and rides , and quiet talks may have done ...
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... tion that , as soon as the slowly accumulating funds would allow , he would be called to active duty ; and had been preparing himself by special study to fill this chair . When that time arrived , in 1854 , he was appointed , in ...
... tion that , as soon as the slowly accumulating funds would allow , he would be called to active duty ; and had been preparing himself by special study to fill this chair . When that time arrived , in 1854 , he was appointed , in ...
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... tion of King Henry after his return from the expedition , at the old London Bridge , — soldiers met by friends , wives , and sweethearts , solemn hymns and prayers , etc. A grand scene . - May 5th . This morning went to Enfield with ...
... tion of King Henry after his return from the expedition , at the old London Bridge , — soldiers met by friends , wives , and sweethearts , solemn hymns and prayers , etc. A grand scene . - May 5th . This morning went to Enfield with ...
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... tion , believing that scientific pursuits afford quite as much mental cultivation as languages . The more enlightened minds here are tending in that direction . Professor Huxley and many others think sciences more important as means of ...
... tion , believing that scientific pursuits afford quite as much mental cultivation as languages . The more enlightened minds here are tending in that direction . Professor Huxley and many others think sciences more important as means of ...
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... tion in thus recalling them to mind . Spent most of the day with Dr. Brown - Sé- quard at his residence in Bellevue . Took break- fast with him and his wife . She was a Bos- ton girl , and is a very intelligent and pleasant woman . Then ...
... tion in thus recalling them to mind . Spent most of the day with Dr. Brown - Sé- quard at his residence in Bellevue . Took break- fast with him and his wife . She was a Bos- ton girl , and is a very intelligent and pleasant woman . Then ...
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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.