A Belated Revenge: From the Papers of Ipsico Poe

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J. B. Lippincott Company, 1889 - 1 oldal

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693. oldal - I can, at any rate, show that the experiments made with it at the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century fully confirm the high encomium bestowed by Dioscorides upon his indicum.
717. oldal - Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling: The Bird of Time has but a little way To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.
705. oldal - A CHARGE to keep I have A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky...
713. oldal - For I remember stopping by the way To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay: And with its all-obliterated Tongue It murmur'd — "Gently, Brother, gently, pray!
721. oldal - DEAR SIR, — Your acceptance to lecture before our association next winter came to hand this morning. Your penmanship not being the plainest, it took some time to translate it ; but we succeeded, and would say your time, "3d of February," and terms, "$6o,
757. oldal - Sufferers ar,e not generally aware that these diseases are contagious, or that they are due to the presence of living parasites in the lining membrane of the nose and Eustachian tubes. Microscopic research, however, has proved this to be a fact, and the result of this discovery is that a simple remedy has been formulated whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness, and...
744. oldal - AD, and whose name still lives in that of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, gave still wider currency to the Babylonian way of reckoning time. It was carried along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge through the Middle Ages, and, strange to say, it sailed down safely over the Niagara of the French Eevolution.
754. oldal - France was accustomed to sit when personally present in parliaments, and from this original meaning the expression came, in course of time, to signify the parliament itself. Under the ancient monarchy of France, a Bed of Justice denoted a solemn session of the king in the parliament, for the purpose of registering or promulgating edicts or ordinances.
758. oldal - ... adopted the Bee under the following circumstances. When the tomb of Childeric (the father of Clovis) was opened in 1653, there were found, besides the skeletons of his horse and page, his arms, crystal orb, <fec.
751. oldal - Soothing Syrups," etc. You should not permit any medicine to be given to your children without you or your physician knows of what it is composed. " Castoria is so well adapted to children that I recommend it as superior to any prescription known to me.

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