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... a French gentleman; a scientific gentleman; a man of great acquirements a Doctor.” “Not of Beauvais?” “Why, yes, of Beauvais. Like Monsieur Manette, ... ...ur father would have been the history of this unfortu nate gentleman, the Doctor of Beauvais.” “I entreat you to tell me more, sir.” “I will. I am go... ...egard it as a matter of business busi ness that must be done. Now if this doctor’s wife, though a lady of great courage and spirit, had suffered so i... ... scientific knowledge, and his vigilance and skill in conducting ingenious experiments, brought him oth erwise into moderate request, and he earned a... ...had been out at a little supper last night, where the Comedy and the Grand Opera were charmingly represented. Monseigneur was out at a little supper m... ...polite and so impress ible was Monseigneur, that the Comedy and the Grand Opera had far more influence with him in the tiresome articles of state aff... ...r, the Farmer General, the Doctor, the Lawyer, the Ecclesiastic, the Grand Opera, the Comedy, the whole Fancy Ball in a bright continuous flow, came w... ... ardour to the acquisition of professional knowledge, to the conducting of experiments, to many things. Now, does he do too much?” “I think not. It ma...

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... flat part of his scythe, as a prepara- tion of the surface for his deeper operations. Dombey , exulting in the long-looked-for event, jingled and jin... ... s nurse. Really the person should be more care—’ ‘W ait! I—had better ask Doctor Peps if he’ll have the good- ness to step upstairs again perhaps. I’... ...ion involved some compromise of his dignity, went, awkwardly enough, away. Doctor Parker Peps, one of the Court Physicians, and a man of immense reput... ...in hourly expectation day and night of being summoned, in conjunction with Doctor Parker Pep. 7 Charles Dickens ‘Well, Sir,’ said Doctor Parker Peps ... ...s T ox, in the midst of her spreading gauzes, went down altogether like an opera-glass shutting-up; she curtseyed so low, in acknowledgment of Mr Domb... ... chair; then, rushing into the next room, returned with a double-barrelled opera-glass, through which he sur- veyed it intently for some minutes. ‘It’... ...rles Dickens calls Miss T ox Lucretia, on account of having made her first experiments in the child-quelling line of business on that lady , when an u...

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...is friends, and their tumultuous mirth. Gay was project- ing his “Beggars’ Opera,” and Pope preparing some of his witty “Miscellanies.” At the end of ... .... He published the first epistle of the Essay, in 1732, anonymously, as an experiment, and had the satisfaction to see it success- ful. It was receive... ... him the more liable to be mistaken. The only method he has is to make the experiment by writing, and appealing to the judgment of others: now if he h... ...the men from whom they learn’d. So modern ‘pothecaries, taught the art, By doctor’s bills to play the doctor’s part, Bold in the practice of mistaken ... ...wardens about pews, Pray heartily for some new gift, And shake his head at Doctor S——t. THE THE THE THE THE TEMPLE OF F TEMPLE OF F TEMPLE OF F TEMPLE... ...brooks, Old-fashion’d halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks: She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning-walks, and prayers three hours a-da... ... 172 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope – V olume One Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, a... ...weak passions for the strong: So, when small humours gather to a gout, The doctor fancies he has driven them out. 160 Yes, Nature’s ...

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...ssed her sleepily. In a moment he closed his eyes and was fast asleep. The doctor came for- 4 Of Human Bondage wards and stood by the bed-side. “Oh, ... ... and stood by the bed-side. “Oh, don’t take him away yet,” she moaned. The doctor, without answering, looked at her gravely. Knowing she would not be ... ... her hand over the left one. She gave a sob. “What’s the matter?” said the doctor . “Y ou’re tired.” She shook her head, unable to speak, and the tear... ...ut since he had there died of typhoid it was impos- sible to look upon the experiment as other than dangerous. The result of innumerable conversa- tio... ...gner will be as dead as mutton. Wagner! I would give all his works for one opera by Donizetti.” 122 Of Human Bondage XXV THE ODDEST OF PHILIP’ S mast... ...romises made him were carried out; mean- while he went a great deal to the opera, and made acquaintance with a small number of charming people who adm... ...Isle Adam. They went to plays together and sometimes to the gallery of the Opera Comique. There was the Odeon quite near them, and Philip soon shared ... ...ange, and he was very anxious to 603 W. Somerset Maugham repeat the lucky experiment of the summer; but war had broken out with the T ransvaal and no...

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...here is one point, ere I have done, where I may go to meet criticism. I have said nothing of faulty hygiene, bath- ing during fevers, mistaken treatme... ... person whom he wronged. In the experience of my informant, almost no tapu had been put in use, except the two described: he had thus no opportunity t... ...rs and their meat; he clapped his hands, and gave me a stave of one of the old, ill-omened choruses. Centuries might have come and gone since this sli... ...n- experienced. This, it appears, is the language of the dead; its purport is taken down progressively by one of the ex- perts, writing, I was told, ‘... ...stood out alone; you might say he was the only Gilbert Islander in Apemama. Violence, so common in Butaritari, seems unknown. So are theft and drunken... ...nquired if I had gin. 226 In The South Seas I told him I had. He remarked that gin was forbidden, lauded the prohibition a while, and then went on to... ...ied by his majesty with the devil—sends and removes bodily sickness. He is whistled for in the Paumotuan manner, and is said to appear; but the king h...

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...ic nature, of matter that never dies. The only reminder of mortality was a doctor’s brougham arrested in august solitude close to the curbstone. The p... ...e, would you?” mumbled Mr V erloc. Comrade Alexander Ossipon—nicknamed the Doctor, ex- medical student without a degree; afterwards wandering lec- tur... ... the red-hot brand, he murmured softly. But Comrade Ossipon, nicknamed the Doctor, had got over the shock by that time. “Y ou don’t understand,” he be... ... form. Mr V erloc deposited the cash-box on the night table, and began the operation of undressing by flinging his overcoat on to a distant chair. His... ...But I don’t play; I work fourteen hours a day, and go hungry sometimes. My experiments cost money now and again, and then I must do without food for a... ...ined sallow face confronting Ossipon. “My difficulty consists precisely in experimenting practically with the various kinds. They must be tried after ... ... proper to the occasion lurking un- der the moustache, but the vestiges of experimental watchful- ness in the round eyes, which had been, no doubt, fa... ...were at the door to take the Imperial Highnesses and the Chancellor to the opera. I went up at once. I found the Baron walking up and down his bedroom... ...mbassador down the great staircase, and see the party started safe for the opera. However, I acted upon the infor- mation that very night. Whether it ...

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... gentlemen, who were at some time or other sure to pay, and thus also they operated on our consciences. From which it followed that one title of super... ...cheek on his hand. One of the little girls laid hers on the table. I said ‘Doctor?’ They nodded and answered ‘Princess,’ which seemed perfectly good E... ...d and guide: ‘ Ah,’ she said, ‘one does sthink one knows almost all before experiment. I am ashamed, yet I will talk, for is it not so? experiment is ... ...ly have passed. ‘And now, sir,’—he used the commanding unction of a lady’s doctor,—’you to bed, and a short repose. We will, if it pleases you, breakf... ...ad a part in it.’ ‘The poorest possible.’ ‘Yet I shall presume to call you Doctor Oceanus,’ 232 The Adventures of Harry Richmond ‘Will you repeat his... ... the working of coal-mines, and hire an overseer and workmen to com- mence operations on the Sarkeld property. It would be obliga- tory to entertain h... ...gossip of this and that of the German Courts. His museum, hunting, and the Opera absorbed and divided his hours. I guessed his age to be mounting fort... ...n were ex- tracting his affable approbation of the admirable nature of the experiment of the Chassediane before dinner. I saw that Eckart was comforta...

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...otesting and vowing in the very midst of his pain, that he wouldn’t have a doctor sent for, and wouldn’t take any remedies but those which the young l... ...r neighbourhood wouldn’t be bad perhaps. A jailor sees a deal of misery. A doctor’s man is in the very midst of murder. A bailiff’s an’t a lively offi... ...n. If any young orphan will repeat the remainder of that simple piece from Doctor Watts’s collection, an eligible opportunity now offers.’ Nobody volu... ...ent of despondency, and often afterwards, the recollection of Mr Pecksniff operated as a cordial to him; awaken- ing in his breast an indignation that... ...tion of everything like comfort, cleanliness, and decency, it is liable to operate not only as a pretty strong banner against amiability of temper, bu... ... along the street, with Mark at his heels, his immoral sense was in active operation; prompting him to the utter- ance of some rather sanguinary remar... ... in such more than doubtful company, this might have proved a disagreeable experiment, but that Tigg and Crimple, studying to understand their man tho... ...e would have done as well. The success of that initiative dish; that first experiment of hers in cookery; was so entire, so unalloyed and perfect, tha...

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... into the en gine, and there tied fast. All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that... ...44 near the flames, and by labouring to quench them, made the wine begin to operate by urine; which I voided in such a quantity, and applied so well ... ...it to; and twenty of his majesty’s surgeons will attend, in order to see the operation well performed, by discharging very sharp pointed arrows into t... ...heir defects not to be seen but through a magnifying glass; where we find by experiment that the smoothest and whitest skins look rough, and coarse, a... ...t for sowing, at the same time manuring it with their dung: it is true, upon experiment, they found the charge and trouble very great, and they had li... ... (like water put into a pump), and the patient recovered. I saw him try both experiments upon a dog, but could not discern any effect from the former.... ... offensive to me and my companion. The dog died on the spot, and we left the doctor en deavouring to recover him, by the same operation. I visited ma... ...knowledge that all of them were not so visionary. There was a most ingenious doctor, who seemed to be perfectly versed in the whole nature and system ... ..., and crudeness of digestion, besides many others, needless to mention. This doctor therefore proposed, “that upon the meet ing of the senate, certai...

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...re just of the same colour, but a striking test of the difference in their opera- tion was seen in the demeanour of Trip, the black-and-tan terrier, w... ... ha’ wrote my name on ‘em, when I come downstairs after my illness, as the doctor said it was inflammation—it was a mercy I got well of it. And to thi... ...nferior quality of milk yielded by the shorthorn, which had been bought on experiment, together with other matters which must be interesting to a youn... ...or, as he hurried along it, echoed to his favourite song from the Beggar’s Opera, “When the heart of a man is oppressed with care.” Not an heroic stra... ... un- soundness and general ignorance which was palpable in all his farming operations. He hated to see the fellow lift the pewter pint to his mouth in... ...ught—yet how else could it be? Marry her quite secretly, as Mr. James, the doctor’s assistant, married the doctor’s niece, and nobody ever found it ou... ... it out for a long while after, and then it was of no use to be angry. The doctor had told her aunt all about it in Hetty’s hearing. She didn’t know h... ...: he looked as serious as a dancing monkey—as serious as if he had been an experimental philosopher ascertain- ing in his own person the amount of sha...

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... been sparing of his colours. In one, a lady was having a toe amputated—an operation which a saintly personage had sailed into the room, upon a couch,... ...hem when they are clean. The custom is to lay the wet linen which is being operated upon, on a smooth stone, and hammer away at it, with a flat wooden... ...des an old one now rarely opened. The most important—the Carlo Felice: the opera house of Genoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatr... ...ibility of mistake. Low was especially fine at the last, when, hearing the doctor and the valet say, ‘The Emperor is dead!’ he pulled out his watch, a... ...ur immediate destination that night, I ventured, by and by, to repeat the experiment on my own account. It pro duced exactly the same effect. Round ... ... I may quote Mrs. Primrose on such a subject—’my warm heart.’ A charitable doctor to the sick, a munificent friend to the poor, and this, not in any s...

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...is based upon the assumption that not only Energy: but Time and Space as well operate by the same Dynamic of Balanced Splitting or Splitness. This ... ...d minerals; performed a near-infinite number of unique bonding and un-bonding experiments in water. These permutations can never be duplicated agai... ...d minerals; performed a near-infinite number of unique bonding and un-bonding experiments in water. These permutations can never be duplicated agai... ...task requiring all focus of attention and awareness be concentrated upon this operation. Using a flint chip requires an equal degree of concentratio... ...e of Inner and Outer awareness. So... our Inner Universe-Awareness or self; operates reflectively independent of the Outer Universe: creating abst... ...hey are killed and trapped and shot, and poisoned and used in obscene torture experiments by people who call themselves scientists. Animals do not ... ...…! But which spirit have I offended? Which of course .brings us to the witch doctor: the tribal shaman: the sham, the shyster… This is one exampl... ...ld alchemy sorcerers… along with the superstitious realities of the old witch doctors, the superstitious realities of the old medicine men, the old... ... understand: fire, mountains, animals, the sky, amulets, magic potions, witch doctors, spells, omens, prophets, spirits, dead people, rulers, images,...

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...two mistresses, A priest the other — at least so they say: I ask’d the doctors after his disease — He died of the slow fever call’d the tertia... ...d round him: No choice was left his feelings or his pride, Save death or Doctors’ Commons — so he died. Dying intestate, Juan was sole heir ... ...ture, and the various arts, And likes particularly to produce Some new experiment to show his parts; This is the age of oddities let loose, ... ...ainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve’s rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a new one from an ox. Bread ... ...s, To newspapers, whose truth all know and feel, To plays in five, and operas in three acts; All these confirm my statement a good deal, B... ...ee, Sir—you Have got a travell’d air, which speaks you one To whom the opera is by no means new: You ‘ve heard of Raucocanti? — I ‘m the man; ... ...ont: Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen New painted, or a pretty opera scene. And nearer as they came, a genial savour Of certain st...

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...en as learned as three Schlegels in one, whereas I mean to remain a humble Doctor of the Faculty of Social Medicine, a veterinary sur- geon for incura... ...ltivate her talent as a singer. She made me music-mad; I took a box at the opera for her and for my daughter, and went there alternate evenings with C... ... my sweet little girl, a perfect darling—but you must have seen her at the opera; he got her an engagement there. Your husband is not so well behaved ... ... down again when she had seen that Robert le Diable was to be given at the Opera. Josepha, who had left the Italian Opera six months since for the Fre... ... of the choice of things that taste assimilates, was entirely want- ing. A doctor of social science would have detected a lover in two or three specim... ...s, you may amuse yourself, child; then you will have enough to pay for the doctor and for your pleasure, libertine that you are.” Wenceslas Steinbock,... ... And the smug Puritans who amuse themselves in France with phil- anthropic experiments fancy that they are making the com- mon people moral! Between t...

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...or poetry, in other words. My father was a blacksmith, my uncle was a horse doctor, and I was both, along at first. Then I went over to the great arm... ... for a start in the newspaper line; nothing big, but just a small weekly for experimental circulation in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court ... ... it was murder, and the law wouldn’t stand murder. It made short work of the experimenter — and of his family, too, if he murdered somebody who be lo... ...d send a stranger through the crowd, he couldn’t tell the king from a quack doctor, nor a duke from a hotel clerk. Apparently here was a man whose br... ...alf century, and the babies all men and women, and some of them married and experimenting familywise themselves — for not a soul of the tribe was dea... ...speech. And harder to get over, too, in a country where there were really no doctors that were worth a damaged nickel. You should have seen those acre... ... was no other way to inform myself perfectly of their everyday life and the operation of the laws upon it. If I went among them as a gentleman, ther... ...re which had been left by such people as a testimony. In other places people operated on a patient’s mind, with out saying a word to him, and cured h... ... of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in opera tion. I was shrewd enough to make all offices connected with the p...

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...is feet against the wall. After this he had to run off to lectures, to the operation-room, to the hospital, and re- turn to his home at the other end ... ... Where should he go to practice? T o T ostes, where there was only one old doctor. For a long time Madame Bovary had been on the look-out for his deat... ...and parleyed for some time with a man in the street below. He came for the doctor, had a letter for him. Natasie came downstairs shivering and undid t... ... mar- 13 Flaubert ried man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the opera- tion theatre as of old. The warm smell of poultices mingled in his b... ...came upon a boy sitting on the grass at the edge of a ditch. “ Are you the doctor?” asked the child. And on Charles’s answer he took his wooden shoes ... ...y little touch with the lancet. The steward sent to T ostes to pay for the operation reported in the evening that he had seen some superb cherries in ... ...ous women that one sees, certainly I might, through egotism, have tried an experiment, in that case without danger for you. But that delicious exaltat... ...ou hold out a snuff-box to him. He 180 Madame Bovary often even makes the experiment before his friends at his sum- mer-house at Guillaume W ood. Wou... ...e day , as they were talking philosophically of earthly dis- illusions, to experiment on his jealousy , or yielding, perhaps, to an over-strong need t...

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...g, and probably can not tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that t... ...ystem is the best mode by which men may get clothing. The condition of the operatives is becoming every day more like that of the English; and it cann... ...complished. Such too, to a greater or less extent, is the condition of the operatives of every denomination in England, which is the great workhouse o... ...ho makes this a subject of speculation, and he em ploys Irishmen or other operatives actually to lay the foundations, while the students that are to ... ...to end. How could youths bet ter learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as m... ...k............................................................ 0.22 (All Experiments Which Failed) Flour.................... 0.88 (Costs more tha... ...urora. I am no worshipper of Hygeia, who was the daughter of that old herb doctor Esculapius, and who is represented on monuments holding a serpent in... ...joyed a monopoly of the subject, who could not bear all kinds of opinions; doctors, lawyers, uneasy housek eepers who pried into my cupboard and bed w... ...his comings and goings? His business calls him out at all hours, even when doctors sleep. We made that small house ring with boisterous mirth and reso...

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...a pipe and laid hold of an old French- man of somewhat filthy aspect (fiat experimentum in cor- pore vili) to try my French upon. I made very heavy we... ...e further whether I were not also a Scotchman. It turned out that a Scotch doctor – a professor – a poet – who wrote books – gross wie das – had come ... ...rms round the tap- room. Although the first torrent was exhausted, yet the Doctor came up again in all sorts of ways, and with or without occasion, th... ...hing and with almost defiant conviction, ‘Er war ein feiner mann, der Herr Doctor,’ and was answered by another with ‘Ya w, yaw, und trank immer rothe... ...tevenson: V ol. 1 I go every night to the theatre, except when there is no opera. I cannot stand a play yet; but I am already very much improved, and ... ...le, and sat and brooded over a schnitt (half-glass) for nearly an hour. An opera is far more real than real life to me. It seems as if stage illu- sio... ... this hardest to swallow and most con- ventional illusion of them all – an opera – would never stale upon me. I wish that life was an opera. I should ... ...ew pages of diary which should make up bright. I am going to repeat my old experiment, after buckling-to a while to write more correctly, lie down and... ...haw’ should be good, eh? I love writing boys’ books. This first is only an experiment; wait till you see what I can make ‘em with my hand in. I’ll be ...

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...barefooted, who pulled him along by a garter fixed round him; no very easy operation, as his size was remark- ably large. His defective sight, indeed,... ... a person might be permitted to practice as an ad- vocate there, without a doctor’s degree in Civil Law. ‘I am (said he) a total stranger to these stu... ..., that though it was not a new house, the flooring was perfectly safe. The Doctor started from his rev- erie, like a person waked out of his sleep, bu... ...on of a work, which in other countries has not been effected but by the co-operating exertions of many, were Mr. Robert Dodsley, Mr. Charles Hitch, Mr... ...lived; and after her death, having come under his roof in order to have an operation upon her eyes performed with more comfort to her than in lodgings... ...time with Beauclerk at his house at Windsor, where he was entertained with experiments in natural philosophy. One Sunday, when the weather was very fi... ...say on the subject, the next Lord’s Day. Upon which, one of our company, a Doctor of Divin- ity, and a plain matter-of-fact man, by way of offering an... ...selas. I observed an apparatus for 150 Boswell’s Life of Johnson chymical experiments, of which Johnson was all his life very fond. The place seemed ... ...onal merit will not serve you so much as money will. Sir, you may make the experiment. Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and...

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... time of Moliere, who can doubt but that they, like marquises, financiers, doctors, and lawyers, would have been within the province of the writer of ... ... of scientific research, death cut him off in the midst of his incompleted experiments, and the great discovery that should have brought wealth to the... ...overed ore in her nature, profited her nothing, underwent the transforming operation of Time and changed to absurdities. For our absurdities spring, i... ...rs the piteous story of a love so stainless, so cruelly cut short. Was she experimenting with herself? Was she try- ing a first unfaithfulness to the ... ...ed the heart and brain of her poet that the said poet determined to try an experiment upon her. He wished to feel certain that this proud conquest was... ...ociety; and, doing his utmost to be agreeable, had adopted the smile of an opera dancer as his sole method of expression. Satisfied, he smiled; dissat... ...uc- ceeded in making a valetudinarian of her factotum; she coddled him and doctored him; she crammed him with deli- cate fare, as if he had been a fin...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, ...

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...e history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint ... ...nly to gallop over it. It is not a sin to make yourself poor in performing experiments for the good of all.” She spoke with more energy than is expect... ... with devoted piety; here was a modern Augustine who united the glories of doctor and saint. The sanctity seemed no less clearly marked than the learn... ...ish tune. That is what I like; though I have heard most things—been at the opera in Vienna: Gluck, Mozart, everything of that sort. But I’m a conserva... ...sively fond of wine, but he had several times taken too much, simply as an experiment in that form of ecstasy; he had fasted till he was faint, and th... ...ng, but also interesting on the ground of her complaint, which puzzled the doctors, and seemed clearly a case wherein the fulness of professional know... ...tege?—dear me!—who is that?” said Mr. Brooke. “This young Lydgate, the new doctor.-He seems to me to understand his profession admirably.” “Oh, Lydgat... ...angerous young sprig, that Mr. Ladislaw,” said Mrs. Cadwallader, “with his opera songs and his ready tongue. A sort of Byronic hero—an amorous conspir... ...disease at the fountain by setting to work at once upon the blood. This co-operative measure was not to be mentioned to Lydgate, and Mr. Powderell him...

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...e, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set in motion. Yon meant me to epater le bourgeois; and if he protests, I hereby re...

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...the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a pro- paganda of our own views of l... ...of doves; and there is no need for Perdita to capture Florizel as the lady doctor in All’s Well That Ends Well (an early Ibsenite heroine) captures Be... ...litically the most important of all the initiatives, because our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin ... ...gle for existence and too lazy and petty to organize the common- wealth co-operatively. Being cowards, we defeat natural selec- tion under cover of ph... ...especially if he takes care not to split his infinitives. And so with your Doctors of Music, who, with their collections of discords duly prepared and... ...we thought she was with the Parry Whitefields. And she called on a strange doctor yesterday with a wedding ring on her finger. Mrs. Parry Whitefield m... ...ves the rifle to Duval, who follows him up the hill. Mendoza pro- duces an opera glass. The others hurry across to the road and disappear to the north... ...ad of you. Are we agreed that Life is a force which has made innumer- able experiments in organizing itself; that the mammoth and the man, the mouse a...

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...neurotic constitution. Opinions here are invariably tested by logic and by experiment, no matter what may be their author’s neurological type. It shou... ...th to the head, doth but leave it the more ex- hausted, the result of mere operations of the imagi- nation is but to weaken the soul. Instead of nouri... ...ience, his tri-unity, the various mysteries of the redemptive process, the operation of the sacraments, etc., have proved fertile wells of inspiring m... ...ing of reality may be something more like a sensation than an intellectual operation properly so-called. “Between twenty and thirty I gradually became... ...ence to a truer philosophy of life will keep many a man well, and give the doctor time to devote to alleviating ills that are unpreventable” (pp. 33, ... ...ially of the digestive organs. I had been sent away from home in charge of doctors, had taken all the narcotics, stopped all work, been fed up, and in... ...all the narcotics, stopped all work, been fed up, and in fact knew all the doctors within reach. But I never recovered permanently till this New Thoug... ...hey would undoubt- edly say it has been by the strict use of the method of experimental verification. Follow out science’s con- ceptions practically, ... ...n it, and I walked two miles that day.” The next case not only illustrates experiment and verification, but also the element of passivity and sur- ren...

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... us to self activity, which is the best effect of any book; that it had even operated changes in our way of thought; nay, that it promised to prove, a... ...s man proceed by mere Accident, but the hand is ever guided on by mysterious operations of the mind. In all his Modes, and habilatory endeavors, an Ar... ...ith other branches of wagon science, and has actually put forth his hand and operated on Nature, is the more cunningly gifted of the two. Whence, then... ... Science, which the scientific head alone, were it screwed off, and (like the Doctor’s in the Arabian Tale) set in a basin to keep it alive, could pros... ...ttle worse confounded. Close by a rather eloquent Oration, “On receiving the Doctor’s Hat,” lie wash bills, marked bezahlt (settled). His Travels are ... ...ground plan, the truest I had, was beginning to be there, and by additional experiments might be corrected and indefinitely extended.” Thus from pover... ...hantasm, made up of Desire and Fear, of emanations from the Gallows and from Doctor Graham’s Celestial Bed? Happiness of an approving Conscience! Did ... ...ret the following: “Satisfy yourselves,” he says, “by universal, indubitable experiment, even as ye are now doing or will do, whether FREEDOM, heaven ...

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...fided to my mother the fact that Bartlett had been dismissed, and that the doctor had forbidden his son’s return home. The Honorable Thomas L. Hamer, ... ...f the war. The troops withdrawn from T aylor to form part of the forces to operate against V era Cruz, were assembled at the mouth of the Rio Grande p... ... weeks, awaiting the arrival of transports to carry it to its new field of operations. The transports were all sailing vessels. The pas- sage was a te... ...sed himself entirely for comfort. He moved about the field in which he was operating to see through his own eyes the situation. Often he would be with... ...ted the company detailed with me to proceed to Panama. The captain and the doctors accompa- nied the men, and I was left alone with the sick and the s... ...erially. I do not think there was a case of recovery among them, until the doctor with the Hudson Bay Company took the matter in hand and established ... ...ajority of them at least, regarded the confederation of the colonies as an experiment. Each colony considered itself a separate government; that the c... ... the Mississippi without an apparent re- treat. Then commenced a series of experiments to consume time, and to divert the attention of the enemy, of m... ...public generally. I, myself, never felt great confi- dence that any of the experiments resorted to would prove successful. Nevertheless I was always p...